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The newly rewritten (and GREATLY improved) BugBots engine has been created as the basis for BugBots Arena, which is intended to be an user-scriptable AI platform where people can pit their AI against the AI of their friends. This release is basically as functional as BugBots 2, but written in a much better and cleaner way. Builds on Linux and MacOS, and could be made to build in Windows easily.

After two years of seemingly neglecting this project, something has finally come of it. Today I checked in the code for BugBots2. Although it is not what we originally planned, it is a functional simulation that is pretty interesting to watch. We had actually developed it before even creating the BugBots project as described here, but it was seriously buggy so we never released it. I went through and audited the code and cleaned up a lot of bugs, and now it works quite well, so I decided to release it. It's a separate Module/Package than BugBots (which is still intended to be a platform for a lot of exciting AI stuff, but which we are still stalled on as far as development)