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Emacs Games

This page is home to Erobots and The Typing Of Emacs, two games for Emacs.

Overview:

• erobot.el --- game with elisp functions trying to survive
• typing.el --- The Typing Of Emacs

erobot.el --- game with elisp functions trying to survive

This game implements a very basic version of the many robot variants out there (eg. pRobot by Chris Rusche).

Players compete by writing a defun (called candidates or erobots). The last erobot remaining wins the game.

Here is a sample candidate:

(defun erobot-candidate-wanderer ()
  "A possible candidate for a game of `erobot'.
This candidate moves around in random directions."
  (list 'erobot-move (erobot-random-dir)))

In order to install, put the file somewhere on your `load-path' and add the following to your ~/.emacs file:

(autoload 'erobot "erobot" "Robots for Emacs, a game." t)

Calling erobot will prompt you for two candidates and run a game for you.

Erobot also has teams:

(defalias 'chaser-1 'erobot-candidate-chaser)
(defalias 'chaser-2 'erobot-candidate-chaser)
(defalias 'chaser-3 'erobot-candidate-chaser)
(erobot 'erobot-candidate-wicked-walker '(chaser-1 chaser-2 chaser-3))

Screenshot of the arena after four turns:

**************
*  A         *
*            *
*D           *
*B       C   *
**************
 4

You can run the same game as a tournament:

(erobot-run-tournament 'erobot-best-of-5
                       'erobot-candidate-wicked-walker
                       '(chaser-1 chaser-2 chaser-3))

Result of the tournament:

TOURNAMENT: BEST-OF-5

Score  Candidate

    3  chaser-2
    2  chaser-3
    1  erobot-candidate-wicked-walker
    1  chaser-1

Score  Team

    6  (chaser-1 chaser-2 chaser-3)

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typing.el --- The Typing Of Emacs

A game for fast typers!

This is a game inspired by The Typing Of The Dead on the Dreamcast. That game itself is a parody of The House Of The Dead. In the latter, players use a light gun to shoot zombies and other undead. In the former, players have to *type* the names of the undead in order to shoot them. The Typing Of Emacs is the parody of the parody, since there are no undead (except possibly for the user staring at Emacs).

In order to play, choose any buffer and type M-x typing-of-emacs RET to start the game. Traditionally used files are the source code of the package, the Emacs NEWS file, and /usr/dict/words.

In order to install, put the file somewhere on your `load-path' and add the following to your ~/.emacs file:

(autoload 'typing-of-emacs "typing" "The Typing Of Emacs, a game." t)

Here is a sample session of the game, played with the source code itself:

T h e   T y p i n g   O f   E m a c s . . .

LEVEL 1: 3 SECONDS PER WORD!  YOU HAVE 3 LIVES LEFT.
elt - Wow!
any - Hit!
but - Go ahead!
own - You can do it!
nil - That's it!
Done - done? - Desist! - 2 LIVES LEFT!
such - You can do it!
sort - Hit!
made - Amazing!
used - OK!
which - yes!
words - Hit!
write - Excellent.
parse - Wow!
takes - Wow!
format - Hit!
Upcase - Updcase? - Nooooo! - 1 LIVES LEFT!
random - YES!
giving - gibuing? - Shame on you! - 0 LIVES LEFT!
You have reached 180 characters per minute in 26 seconds by typing 18 words.

Hall Of Fame

  1. Alex Schroeder   243 cpm    108 sec     59 words  2000-06-16 01:24
  2. Alex Schroeder   201 cpm     48 sec     37 words  2000-06-16 01:45
  3. Alex Schroeder   210 cpm     41 sec     32 words  2000-06-16 01:47
  4. Alex Schroeder   206 cpm     41 sec     27 words  2000-06-16 21:46
  5. Alex Schroeder   192 cpm     39 sec     25 words  2000-06-20 00:12
  6. Alex Schroeder   180 cpm     26 sec     18 words  2000-08-06 13:41
  7. ...

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