[bnabholz]

This is an incredible collection and I'm very impressed by the research folder and the discovery of all of these.

I remember being amazed by the Reaper Bot and how smart it seemed, probably a result of how novel it was compared to other bots of the time. I liked UT even more than Quake though, and I thought it was cool that Epic offered Steve Polge a job based off of it.

[jasonb05]

Thank you kindly.

I've dumped (wasted? invested?) many 100s of hours into the research of old quake bots, contacting the authors, trying out mods, parsing readmes, writing essays about them, etc. It's a type of hyperaddictive nostalgic madness that strikes me from time to time :)

Yep, the reaper blew everyone's socks off. I wrote up a history of him here that might interest you: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...

[hypercube33]

Quake 1 and 2 had so many awesome mods including bots. As a kid I think I hoarded 13gb of stuff mostly over a dial up connection just to explore what was possible.

Side note would anyone know similar archives of say warcraft 2 ai mods or original StarCraft ai maps or mods? I remember finding efforts someone or a team did and they were insanely good.

[jasonb05]

Wow, 13gb! If you have a backup of your hoard (midden?) on a dusty old HDD, maybe you have copies of some lost bot files buried in there: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...