GNU Robots
GNU Robots is a computer game/amusement for programmers. The goal is to guide a dumb robot around a maze, consuming food, avoidng baddies, and collecting as many prizes as possible in the process. BUT, the player cannot control the robot once the game begins; the robot acts according to a Scheme script previously written by the player.
On discovering GNU Robots, a programmer is likely to miss a nights sleep due to an addictive cycle of programming, running, and tweaking. Knowledge of Scheme is not essential as Scheme is a very simple language, and example scripts are provided.
GNU Robots was originally written by Jim Hall, but he no longer works on it. It's current maintainer is Tim Northover. The game uses Guile to interpret the scheme instructions which must be stored in a file.
On most systems, the executable is named robots, but on Debian GNU/Linux (and possibly some others), it's named grobots to avoid clashing with another package.
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GNU Project | Guile | Guile programming language | Jim Hall (programmer)
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