Chronicle of 2012

Here is a list of events, minor or major, that happened in Robocode/RoboWiki 2012:

• Skilgannon expanded his empire by taking the MeleeRumble crown with Neuromancer.
• Quite a bit of activity at the top of the RoboRumble, most notably Gilgalad shooting up to #3 and Diamond coming pretty close to catching DrussGT. =) (In fact, he was legitimately, but barely, ahead for a few days.)
• RoboRunner / RoboJogger - Voidious released RoboRunner, a new batch battle runner with some significant improvements over RoboResearch, such as faster execution (no JVM restarts), team support and smart battles. Two things it lacked were a GUI and Windows support, but those were also remedied by Skotty starting work on RoboJogger.
• LiteRumble - Skilgannon wrote a new rumble server that's really lightweight and flexible. See it in action: [1].
• Paul Evans returned briefly to talk about the Raspberry Pi. Some effort and bug fixes went into getting Robocode to run on it, but it probably needs new graphics and maybe improved Java support. Voidious ended up writing a game called BerryBots.