Club News:
-Party tomorrow (1/25/08) - 6:30 to 11:30 in the Student Center, 3rd floor. In addition, the Port-a-Party is at 3:00 on the 2nd floor. Bring your handheld game consoles!
-We now have a wiki at 128.61.89.82/esp/wiki
-Nathan Garcia is having a birthday party at Dave & Buster's in Marietta at 6:00 on Saturday
-First alpha version of the Beast Pits engine is up. Check the Wiki for the source code, log into Subversion to submit content.
Game Review: Viva Pinata (360) by Joel Garrett
Industry News:
-Steam now supports it's first MMO, EVE Online
-WoW now has 10 million subscribers
-TF2 to get unlockable weapons, new game mode, new maps
-Is the industry moving away from WISYWYG?
Dev Topic: Andrew's CS 4731 (Game AI) Final Project
-Using the WC3 map editor as a game development tool
-Lots of triggers used to develop and shape AI
-Triggers override default WC3 behavior and actually instill some level of tactics in the bots
-In addition, if you are an underdog, another underdog CPU player may offer a mutually-beneficial alliance to help defeat a more powerful enemy. They will tell you of their battle plans so you can help them.
-AI players will team up to try to take out the player in the lead
Competition: Robocode Rules
-1 bot per entrant
-No code size restriction
-Research online for help, but don't steal someone's bot or copy/paste a bunch of code
-Due 2 weeks from today, 2/7/08
-Prizes: $20 gift cert to first