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flying-robots, a (kind of) three-dimensional clone of the classing BSD Robots game.

flying-robots is a simple game inspired by the classic BSD Robots game. You are being chased by robots, and the only way to kill them is to make them crash. Whereas in the classic Robots game you could move along the x and y axes, flying-robots allows you to also move along the z axis (ie, perpendicular to the screen). While movement is in three dimensions, the 2D view of the classic robots game is retained, with the player able to view one z-level at a time.

It is written in Python 3. It has a cross-platform graphical interface, written using Tkinter, and a textual interface, which uses the curses library (Unix-like systems only).

Dependencies

The game depends on Python 3 and Tk. On Unix-like systems, you can use the curses interface if you don't have Tk installed, or if you would rather play in the terminal.

Installation

You can clone the git repository and install using pip.

git clone https://github.com/bunburya/flying-robots.git
cd flying-robots
pip install -e .

If you use ArchLinux, you can also install the flying-robots package from the AUR. If you enjoy the game, please consider voting for it on the AUR page.

Options

You can customise the way flying-robots runs by providing one or more command line options to it. Run flying-robots --help to see all available options.

License

flying-robots is published under the permissive MIT license.