PyWeek - Game about robotics - and no 3d for me

Finally, I dug into robots a bit this morning, and decided, despite a week full of fun tinkering with opengl and 3d, that I just am not ready to put together something that is fun and engaging in 3d in a week. I am really adamant about not just having a game that has robots, but more specifically making a game *About* robots... in the sense that wikipedia nicely summarizes:

is not 'natural' i.e. artificially created
can sense its environment, and manipulate or interact with things in it
has some degree of intelligence or ability to make choices based on the environment, often using automatic control or a preprogrammed sequence
is programmable
moves with one or more axes of rotation or translation
makes dexterous coordinated movements
appears to have intent or agency

-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot

Specifically, I like the idea of automation and sensing. i have been ruminating on a game that allows the user to build and automate their own robots, and maybe i will take a look at something like that with chipmunk this morning

— nikolajbaer on 2008/03/30 17:17 of Robosub
— edited on 2008/03/30 12:21