Robocode - Template

This is a slightly modified version of Norbert Schneider's Robocode Template at: https://github.com/bertschneider/RobocodeTemplate It contains the Robocode API (version 1.9.3.0) from: http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

This little project can be used as template for your first Robocode robots and automated battles.

For example it should be a good starting point for a tournament in your company...

Development preparations or how to build a new robot

1. Set the robotlocation property in the pom.xml to your Robocode robots folder
   In a tournament this could be a network fileshare or some other shared location.
2. Import the Maven project into an IDE of your choice
3. Change the name of the de.metro.TestRobot Java and properties file to the name of your robot
4. Set the new classname of your robot in the properties file
5. Implement a superior robot
6. Build the robot jar with the Maven command mvn clean install

The name of the output file/jar is generated using the user.name Maven variable. You could also set your own artifact name just make sure it is a unique name.

Battle preparations or how to start a war

1. Make sure the robots are deployed into your Robocode robots folder
   If you use a network fileshare to exchange the robots you could create a link to that folder
2. Copy misc/battles.battle into your Robocode battles folder
3. Add the classnames of the participating robots to the selectedRobots property in the battle file
4. Run the following command in your Robocode folder java -Xmx1024M -cp libs/robocode.jar robocode.Robocode -battle battles\battles.battle -results results.txt
5. Watch the fight!

For a faster development process:

1. Edit robotlocation property for dev profile adding the robot directory path from your robocode installation
2. For seeing a battle between two instances of your robot, run mvn -Pdev clean install exec:exec.

Documentation and other links

• Robocode Website
• Robocode API
• Robocode Getting Started
• Robocode Wiki
• robocode@github
• Rock 'em, sock 'em Robocode!
• Robocode Lessons

Dependencies

As far as I can tell there are no Maven dependencies available. So the Robocode API was installed in a local repository in the project with the following Maven command:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=robocode.jar \
    -Dsources=robocode-1.9.3.0-sources.jar \
    -Djavadoc=robocode-1.9.3.0-javadoc.jar \
    -DgroupId=net.sf.robocode
    -DartifactId=robocode.api \
    -Dversion=1.9.3.0 \
    -Dpackaging=jar \
    -DgeneratePom=true \
    -DcreateChecksum=true \
    -DlocalRepositoryPath=lib

The sources can also be found on Github at github.com/robo-code/robocode.