tanks

index.md

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 2title: Tanks
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10  <figcaption>"Ant Lion" nails "Rabbit With Gun".</figcaption>
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16Dirtbags Tanks is a game in which you pit your coding abilities
17against other hackers.  You write a program for your tank, set it out
18on the battlefield, and watch how your program fares against tanks
19written by other players.  Dirtbags Tanks is frequently a component of
20[Dirtbags Capture The Flag](/ctf/).
21
22Each tank has a turret-mounted laser, two treads, up to ten sensors,
23and a diagnostic LED.  Sensors are used to detect when other tanks are
24inside a given arc.  In the examples on this page, "triggered" sensors
25turn black.  Most tanks will take some action if a sensor is
26triggered, such as changing speed of the treads, turning the turret,
27or firing.
28
29Tanks are programmed in Forf, a stack-based language similar to
30PostScript.
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32
33Other Versions
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35
36Everybody loves tanks!
37If you've made a port or done something fun with it,
38please let me know and I'll link it here!
39
40* [Class Lab](https://github.com/Arctem/nmt_python_labs/tree/master/labs/project) at New Mexico Tech, by Russell White
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43Author
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45
46Neale Pickett <neale@woozle.org>