Robocode Rumble: Tips From the Champs

Jason writes "The Robocode Rumble is over and the winners have been declared. Who are they and what are the secrets of their success? Dana Barrow talks shop with some of the mad scientists behind the winning Javabots and with Mat Nelson, who reveals what he has planned for Robocode 2.0. You can get the free download here."

Comments

Re: genetically generated code?

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I don't think Java would be a good platform for evolutional programming in bytecode. The test cycles are just too long with Java.

Think you breed 16 or 50 childs every iteration and have to test them for success/failure, each of them. IMHO this is just too slow with Java. I doubt you'd have got a bot doing more than stand around without throwing exceptions within the contest time...