Introduction.

The first time I heard about this game, I thought to myself “I gotta get that.” I didn’t think it was the best looking new game, the most action, or any of the other things that a lot of people look for in a game. I thought I’d finally be able to put my coding skills to use and win at something for a change. That’s right; at its heart this is a puzzle game of immense proportions. Combine that with the better parts (the parts I like at least) of the creation style of games, and you get MindRover.

MindRover is a contest of who can build the best AI to overcome a given problem. It provides you with the tools you need to construct your rover (your player in this virtual world), and program it on how to respond. It also provides you with a variety of arena’s to test your rover in, and to have it compete against others. Before all you gamers get scared away that this may be just a game for geeks, Cognitoy managed to develop an interface into this world that’s even easier to use than BASIC. If you can write a script to do something in Quake3 you’ll have no problems programming rovers.

The Story (quick and short.)

A bunch of scientists studying Europa (a moon orbiting Jupiter) get rather bored stuck out in space for long periods of time with nothing to do. This is just a small station in the not too distant future and holodecks haven’t been invented yet. In order to pass the time, they take what they have available (small robots for exploring the surface of the moon), and challenge each other to attain certain goals with these rovers.

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