by Migi32 » Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:16 pm
Ah, I didn't know about the Robocup Simulation 2D League before. It's indeed quite similar, although a small difference is that in Haxball you can't "hold" the ball and then kick it in a direction you choose. Instead, you always kick the ball "away" from you.
The ideas of making it more than a 1v1 game are interesting, but I'm not sure they would work. As gnu264 said, more than 2 teams, with more than 2 goals etc would probably be a chaotic mess, so I'm against that.
But having 2 teams and multiple bots that each control 1 player, that would be pretty cool. Definitely among the top bots, who would really be aware of each other's positions and do nice coordinated plays.
I can even imagine a contest where people form teams and then those teams play against each other (and the best team wins, not the best player), with possibly trading players between teams and all that stuff. Unfortunately I'm afraid this all breaks down at the lower ranks, where bots would be completely oblivious to what the other bots on their team are doing, and most matches would look like .