About

Program your creatures using the programming language lua. Upload your code on infon-servers and watch your creatures fight other players creatures in realtime using the graphical client. It is like corewars on steroids. See FirstSteps for an introduction.

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Features

• It's a Client/Server based realtime programming game. You'll only need a telnet client to play the game. To see the game you'll need the client.
• The game allows you to update your code while playing the game.
• The Server uses a modified version of the lua programming language for level description, game and user interface logic and as the bot programming language.
• Demo recording and playback.
• Tournament mode for automated fights between bots.
• The client can use different renderers: 2D (the default), 3D (based on OpenGL) and textmode (using aalib).
• Very portable code (there are versions for at least Windows, Linux and OSX. The debian package exists for architectures I've never used :-)
• Since the server needs to execute user-provided code, secure coding is essential.

In the Press

• An article about the "Addicted to Code" competition were Infon won the second place
• Mike McManus and Nick Irvine contributed a bot
• Infoning in Ghana and Kofi-Annan Center for Excellence in ICT
• QOSGames
• The Linux Game Tome
• lua uses
• freshmeat
• gamedev.net
• Hacker-kompatibles Spielen: Infon Battle Arena
• GPN5 Review