---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Duncan Bayne <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:29 PM Subject: [mxug:1516] Announcing the first Melbourne GNU Robots Championship :-) To: mxug <[email protected]>
[ Original at http://groups.google.com/group/grc-melbourne/browse_thread/thread/2d7aca1e9dc24f80 ] >From http://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/ : "GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a program for a little robot, then watch him explore a world. The world is filled with baddies that can hurt you, objects that you can bump into, and food that you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as possible before are killed by a baddie or you run out of energy." The Robots are programmed using Scheme, a Lisp dialect that's easy to learn. The championship is open to anyone 18 years or older who can make it to Melbourne on April 29th 2011. Competitors under 18 are still welcome to enter but must be represented on the night by someone who's allowed to enter licensed premises :-) The aims: - learn / hack in Scheme - have fun & socialise - promote Free Software - drink beer The plan: - everyone who wants to enter joins the grc-melbourne Google Group and posts an intro / greeting, so we know how many people are competing - competitors & interested parties assemble on Friday April 29th 2011*; bring your robot on a USB stick as the competition machine won't have Internet access - each entry is run on the same map, the exact layout of which is a Big Secret until the night - the winner is the person whose entry achieved the highest score - all entries will be posted on the grc-melbourne Google Group the next day Ladies & gentlemen ... start your Scheming! * The exact venue and time is TBD sometime late March, based upon the number of entries. But it will be in Melbourne, and licensed with decent beer on tap. Access by public transport is a must and, if at all possible, decent parking too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mxug" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mxug?hl=en-GB. -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
