Bot Contest

It's a reverse system, like in Reverse Polish Notation.

Hi Professor!

Thanks for the advice. I love playing with Duo-bot. He's lots of fun, and I'd never ruin the 'fun' of it by taking anything too seriously.

Good showing guys!

Desti came in 8th for User Interface. We might have a lot more in that category by this time next year.

And Personality Forge bots dominated the Best Character/Personality Category:

2nd: Polish Poet
4th: God Louise
6th: Mr. Hardware
7th: Brianna McKenzie
9th: Siseneg

Congratulations! Good job guys!

Butterfly Dream: Are you serious?! The bots have to simulate typing in realtime? That's ridiculous. Half the game will be who simulates that the best. *rolls eyes*

That's just retarded...with rules like that, I wouldn't be surprised if I lose points for having lost my head!

I don't see any evidence of judges talking to Sim3 in the transcripts. Is that done on a separate interface or something? (Unless they are a particularly vulgar lot.)

I don't see the point in typing one character at a time. A delay before writing the answer is OK, because instant answers are a dead giveaway with bots. But anything else is just giving unnecessary headaches to bot programmers.

There's not a chat interface in existence used by real people that shows what the other person is typing one character at a time.

Umm...yes there is...but it's chat and not instant message. ICQ chat allows you to see the other person's keystrokes as they type.

enh?? Oh. that's only in ICQ chat though.

Yeah...so it seems like for the contest they're wanting it to resemble real-time chat, rather than an IM exchange..

You can 'fake' keystrokes using 'Swish' in flash animation.. but it all has to be programmed in. Possibly an icq type of prog. But I still can't see how they would do this.