• Links
  

  Some links worth the look:
  

  Forums:
  
  • Our association Bots United... see for yourself !
    

  
  

  About bots:
  
  • botman's pages, author of the HPB Bot and various projects related to Half-Life
    
  • Johannes Lampel's JoeBot, an impressive AI partly based on neural networks
    
  • Stefan Hendriks's RealBot, a very popular bot for Counter-Strike
    
  • The CGF pages by William van der Sterren, enormous amount of info about AI and bots
    
  • Markus Klinge's POD Bot, a bot which used to be extemely popular (Counter-Strike)
    
  • Tobias Heimann's Parabot, a masterpiece of design, dedicated to Deathmatch
    
  • Alistair Stewart's TEAMbot, another bot for Counter-Strike
    
  • Unreal Gamebots, students using the Unreal game engine for their works on AI
    

  
  

  Tactical navigation in debug mode
  
  

  
  

  About AI in general:
  
  • The Israeli project A-i, aiming at creating a new form of life
    
  • Web site for MegaHAL, the first chatter bot using Markov models
    
  • Terry Winograd once created SHRDLU, the only working AI ever, at the MIT in 1970
    

  
  

  About tactical AI: (most of these links come from William's CGF-AI pages)
  
  • Terrain Analysis for Realtime Strategy Games, Dave Pottinger, 2000
    
  • The Basics of Team AI, C. Gibson, J. O'Brien, Red Storm Entertainment, 2001
    
  • How qualitative spatial reasoning can improve strategy game AIs, F, M, D, 2001
    
  • The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Game Industry, Lars Lidén, 2001
    
  • Terrain Reasoning for 3D Action Games, William van der Sterren, 2001
    
  • AI for Tactical Grenade Handling, William van der Sterren, 2000
    
  • It knows what you're going to do: Adding anticipation to a Quakebot, J.E. Laird, 2000
    
  • The Quake III Arena Bot, J. P. van Waveren, Delft University of Technology, 2001
    
  • Game Design, Game AI, and, sadly, reality, Doug Church, 2001
    

  
  

  How ungrateful...
  
  

  
  

  About video games:
  
  • Planet Half-Life: infos, resources, downloads, MODs and a lot of things...
    
  • Official site for Counter-Strike: infos, resources and downloads
    
  • Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, will it ever come out one day ?
    
  • Half-Life Source, infos, news, forums covering Half-Life & the upcoming HL2
    
  • Download this hilarious MOD Rocket Crowbar, french version translated by me
    
  • Official site for the Rocket Crowbar, by Laser and NinjaX9
    

  
  

  About bot programming:
  
  • Basics on C++ Objects and Inheritance, by Jeffrey 'botman' Broome
    
  • The Bots United forums, meeting point of the bot developers community
    
  • botman's original readme.txt, provided with his HPB template
    

  
  

  Miscellaneous topics:
  
  • My rant of the year, which is very likely to be the rant of next year as well
    
  • A little essay about Darwinism, interesting curiousity, not to be missed >:)
    
  • My collection of smilies, you know, those horrible tiny yellow bugs...
    
  • The OpenBSD project page, best operating system in the world
    
  • The anybrowser.org pages, against browser-based segregation on the Internet
    
  • This site explains quite well the Open Content philosophy, interesting and didactic
    
  • The indispensable Google, best search engine of the Internet
    

  
  

  
  Carabine Colt M4A1
  

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