RobotWar. The battlefield of the future.

Ah, the future past.

Welcome to the battlefield of the future! It is the year 2002. Wars still rage, but finally, they have been officially declared hazardous to human health. Now, the only warriors are robots - built in secret and programmed to fight each other to the death!

The RobotWar game was written for the Apple II, it's so old. The idea is that you can program little robot tanks, then run them in tournaments. The programming language is extremely restricted, so honestly, it should be easy to write. Right?

So wouldn't it be cool to write a Flash front-end to display the simulated world, and a Perl back-end to run it, and a Web service to organize the tournaments? Wouldn't that be neat? Sure it would!

Note: an Actionscript example of XMLSocket, which is how Flash can talk to the server. Another.