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Chapter 10 Having Fun with Your Robot 263

If you download it from Dave’s web site, you can find the appropriate link
in the Books section.
At its core, AT-Robots 3 is a programming game. You need to create your ro-
bot, optimizing the design based on such factors as weapon strength, power
demands, shielding, and movement capabilities. All AT-Robots can have
parts, including a hull, weapon, scanner, and other components. Designing a
robot is pretty straightforward; if you have any programming experience,
you can whip up a simple robot in literally minutes. Here’s a robot in the pro-
cess of being created:

As you can see from the illustration, the robots are little more than scripts,
each line of which defines specific robot parameters, like this:

#equip
hull 0 4
material 5
engine 7

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