BerryBots demo

Figured I'd take this to a separate thread. =) Posted another couple of vids with progress on the Raspberry Pi game I'm working on.

• part 1: sample stages, battle mode
• part 2: stage and bot APIs

Still a lot to do but I think it's coming along pretty well.

Nice, looking neat :)

Wonder how strategies will play out... hmm

Man, you are totally of the hook :). Looks indeed very neat. The race looks and sound as it could provide a lot of fun and maybe some nice pathfinding programming.

Well done!

(Sorry, gotta take this back to LiquidThreads.. =))

If anyone's curious, here's some TPS measurements (with graphics off) of Lua vs LuaJIT on the Raspberry Pi and my 2009 MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz. RandomBot is a trivial bot like sample.Crazy, BasicBattler is a slightly non-stupid bot with a simple Minimum Risk movement and random linear gun.

• 2x BasicBattler
  • Rpi Lua: 343
  • Rpi LuaJIT: 632
  • MBP Lua: 5967
  • MBP LuaJIT: 19101

• 8x BasicBattler
  • Rpi Lua: 44
  • Rpi LuaJIT: 88
  • MBP Lua: 766
  • MBP LuaJIT: 2377

• 2x RandomBot
  • Rpi Lua: 782
  • Rpi LuaJIT: 1053
  • MBP Lua: 17781
  • MBP LuaJIT: 28154

• 8x RandomBot
  • Rpi Lua: 119
  • Rpi LuaJIT: 182
  • MBP Lua: 2429
  • MBP LuaJIT: 4159

Obviously the LuaJIT is far superior in speed.

LuaJIT vs Lua

• 2xBB
  • RPI: x1.84
  • MBP: x3.2
• 8xBB
  • RPI: x2
  • MBP: x3.1
• 2xRB
  • RPI: x1.35
  • MBP: x1.58
• 8xRB
  • RPI: x1.53
  • MBP: x1.71

Even considering a margin of error, it seems the x86/amd64 version is either more mature or has a more leverage-able machine code (assuming your mac book is intel rather then PPC based).