Introduction

Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, develops 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare.

In the game, there can be teams managed by the computer. The AI which plays these teams is called a bot, and is is a small program wrtten in javascript, interpreted by the game engine. The game itself is written in C++.

About SilexBot

SilexBot is being developped during "Dojo" sessions, organized by Silex Labs, by members of the association.

Play against SilexBot

• Download and install 0ad
• download SilexBot
• unzip SilexBot folder and move the content of the bin/ folder to ~/Library/Application\ Support/0ad/mods/public/simulation/ai/silexbot/ (on MAC) or ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/public/simulation/ai/silexbot (on Ubuntu) or My Document\My Games\0ad\mods\public\simulation\ai\silexbot (on Windows) - you may have to create the folders.

Then start a solo game, and choose SilexBot as AI for an opponent.

Development

Start the game automatically on Mac

$ ./start_mac.sh

Or on Linux

$ ./start_linux.sh

Or even on windows

$ ./start.bat

Feel free to fork this repository, do your modification and then create a pull request. We'll merge them on the next scheduled dojo.

Development status

Currently the bot send some people to cut woods.