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An Interview with Amoi-TGB, the author of "Amoi-TGB",
one of the best teams of the first Master Championship

I must thank Amoi-TGB who accepted this interview: Only learning from the experience of the best competitors, other players can improve their tactics and the behavior of their warriors. Amoi-TGB's team was one of the best performers in the Master Championship of September 5th with a very good second place, just behind i-bot, the absolute winner.

leo: Amoi-TGB, I'm very happy that you accepted the interview and I'm very curious to know more about you and in particular about your team of warriors. First of all, a classic question, can you tell me where did you hear about GUN-TACTYX and why did you decide to partecipate to the championship?

Amoi-TGB: i known it by a friend that explained me how to begin, then i spend around 50 hours to make a stupid robot, i decided to participate when i saw that on my computer i got the 3rd place.

leo: Well, at this stage of the game "stupid" bots may be better than bots that think to be smart ;) What can you say about the tactics that you implemented in your team? I don't want your trade secrets, just a few tips to help other players.

Amoi-TGB: Do not concentrate on "moving", there are others things to make your bot to do. For example my bot is not made to visit the map, but it is a mistake. Another tip is: try to use all the aptitudes() of your bot!!!

leo: Do you think that "Amoi-TGB" will succeed in beating "i-bot", the actual GUN-TACTYX Master? Which are the behaviors that you are going to improve.

Amoi-TGB: i am already beating "ibot" in particular conditions as explained in the forums. i am going to make something for my bot to move instead of turning on itself and i have just found a big mistake in the programming of the game, i am going to use it in the competition in about 2 weeks. "I-bot" is really well made, it is the only one with mine who can kill 5 other bot if they are front of him, same if they are shooting.

leo: I hope to find that bug in the game as soon as possible to fix it, so I'm going to look for the Amoi-TGB's exploits to discover my mistake. Looking for bugs in the simulator is a winning tactics that I accept in JROBOTS too, but don't expect that the simulator will not be fixed immediately ;) The other competitors proposed bots with very different behaviors. Do you like one in particular? And why?

Amoi-TGB: happily all the bots are different, that is the thing that make the game interesting, to have different behavior because of different people programming, this is what we call competition !!! i like particularly "i-bot", cose it uses strafing.

leo: In a private communication, you told me not to be very interested in the "Soccer" competition. Why?

Amoi-TGB: cose it is a lot of time for me to make a program and i would prefer to win in the fighting mode than in the soccer one... Anyway it may be very funny, but only if we can see competition...

leo: Now let's talk about the man. What could you tell us about yourself?

Amoi-TGB: Just a little french, 19 years old, and my computer teacher told me i won't do anything in my life... lol...

leo: Your teacher is very encouraging ;) And What about your hobbies, favorite books and music?

Amoi-TGB: MIYAMOTO MUSASHI (from EIJI YOSHIKAWA) and as preferred music the sound of the shots of my bots...

leo: A nice sound indeed ;) Do you have any particular suggestion to make GUN-TACTYX a better game?

Amoi-TGB: the game is really good, but i would like all the players to be able to connect at the same time in the game, on internet and see the games at the same time, so we could chat at the same time, it would be a great pleasure... It may be nice to get more players in competition... isn't it ? another thing: could you put in the game some others musics ??????

leo: Interesting requests, but I suggest you to buy a copy of Unreal Tournament ;) Other suggestions?

Amoi-TGB: When i put my olds versions of my bot, at the end, ths score was so that : IBOT(50%) GUNNY (50%) AMOI8 (30%) AMOI9 (28%) AMOI10 (25%)...

leo: Gosh! You'd better to stop adding improvements!

Amoi-TGB: In fact, my bot is worst and worst so what i was wanting to say is that there is a definite number of things a bot can do, and at the end maybe all the bot will be the same program, but it may be very nice that there are a lot of new players, to do a real competition. Another thing i would like is to make a map like a cube, but for tournament : all the bots are random placed in the level (big war !!!)

leo: If you want to design a level, you're welcome. When the players will become enough to keep regular tournaments, someone could ask for an "unknown level competition" and it will be a real AI challenge. Thank you very much for your answers Amoi-TGB!

Amoi-TGB: thanks for the interwiew, i got the 4rth place in the last tournament, with only some percent of difference, and i played a few games less than the others bots... very sad... but for the next i may have some time to loose into programming 8-) bye, in the arena.