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Subject: The Stanford Client-Side StoogeBot

Date: 16 Dec 1996 20:21:59 -0000

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Announcing the

S T O O G E B O T

from the

Stanford Graphics Quake Project

The Stanford Graphics Quake Project is pleased to announce its first

creation, the StoogeBot. Under hush-hush development since August

20th, and enjoying extensive play testing since mid-September, the

StoogeBot continues to be the most deadly client-side bot ever.

The StoogeBot was designed to combine the strengths of a human with

the strengths of a computer, recognizing that a human can navigate

better than a computer and that a computer can acquire and destroy

targets better than a human. With the StoogeBot, a client-side Quake

proxy, a human has complete control over player movement, while an

autonomous computer handles target selection and elimination. The

result is an unstoppable symbiotic team.

You may have met the StoogeBot. It is the sole member of the

fictitious "Three Stooges Clan" and plays as moe.3S, larry.3S,

curly.3S, or as the Dark Stooge, shemp.3S. The StoogeBot is

characterized by extreme mayhem and a proclivity for yelling "Nyuk!

Nyuk! Nyuk!", "I'll muydalize ya!", and "Oh! A wiseguy!".

The creation of the StoogeBot involved making use of a homegrown

OpenGL rendering library, which has since grown to include the many

bells and whistles, including support for lightmaps, sprites, and the

Quake status bar. In addition, a client-side demo recorder has

allowed us to record the StoogeBot in action.

For more information on the StoogeBot and related projects, visit our

web page at:

http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~quake/

Discover how the StoogeBot works, download the demo files, and see if

you may have fallen prey to the Three Stooges.

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The Stanford Graphics Quake Project

quake@graphics.stanford.edu