Kiki the Nano Bot
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 08:31 | by Curly Brace
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Kiki the Nano Bot is a 3D puzzle game, basically a mixture of the games Sokoban and Kula-World.
Story:
once upon a time,
there were some
tiny little robots
living in the nano world.
they lived a happy artificial life
busily collecting resources
for the maker
who made more and more
tiny little robots.
but one day,
a parasitic capacity
destroyed the maker's
master control program.
since then he is
malfunctioning
and only producing
lazy stupid little robots
which shoot each other
and destroy the nano world.
your task is to help kiki,
the only sane bot left over,
to repair the maker.
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Homepage Discussions about Kiki the Nano Bot
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Repository information for: Debian
Kiki the Nano Bot is played by
no one....
Comments
A case of the rots
Finally managed to compile it after fixing much software rot, only to have it throw a std::out_of_range error upon first startup. This code was written for Windows, never meant to be portable, hasn't been updated since it was sent in as a contest entry and suffers from massive software rot as such.
I didn't managed to
I didn't managed to successfully compile it - fails at linking. But I wouldn't call it "software rot" - the source required only few fixes caused by changes in gcc 3->4 include file and const char * handling. It also requires few tweaks due to Python version change (that's why I wasn't able to link it - I'm not really familiar with Python's build subtleties). The game doesn't seem to be "Windoz'ed" either.
I think you can contact Debian Kiki maintainers and ask what changes they had to make to get it running.
So gcc4 broke it, it won't
So gcc4 broke it, it won't work with the current version of Python, and it's missing a lot of header #includes (a problem I had). How is this not software rot/code deterioration?
Okay, I'll try to compile it
Okay, I'll try to compile it in the weekend and report.
By the way, the game itself is rather good (installed from repos).
Anybody want to update the graphics :D
Anybody want to update the graphics :D