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NEWS CREDITS DEVELOPMENT DOWNLOAD LINKS
Last modified : 28 November 2000
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ABOUT PSIBORG...
As you'll have seen on the main page, Psiborg1 is a bot for Half-Life. Recently, there has been renewed interest in Half-Life bots - botman has been working on TFC and Counterstrike support for some time, and now several other coders have released Counterstrike-compatible bots. There are too many CS bots to list here, but botman's page is a good place to go if you'd like more information.
Why yet another Half-life bot? One reason is that I don't find the current set of Half-Life bots much fun to play. More importantly, it gives me a good excuse to fiddle around with some AI techniques.
The aim of this project is to create a realistic, intelligent bot which is easy to use and fun to play. It's realistic, in that I want it to play as much like a human player as possible. This means no wild one-shot kills (not fair), or strange dodging/jumping behaviour (annoying), and so on.
MODIFICATIONS AND SOURCE CODE...
Psiborg is intended for 'pure' Half-Life only, rather then any of the modifications. I'd like to code mod support (including Counterstrike, naturally), but it won't happen until Psiborg has mastered Half-Life. See the nice FAQ.
I'd also like to release the source code to Psiborg. All the code will fall under the LGPL, a more liberal version of the suddenly-popular GPL (Gnu Public License).
RELEASE DATES...
Possibly late 2000. More likely, first things 2001. Releases will follow thick and fast after that...
CONTACT DETAILS...
You can mail me at fremen@freehosting.net .
1. Psiborg is the first name I thought of, and it accidentally stuck. Sorry.