Quote: "but I don't think I'd be able to tell just from the concept, "AI Robot Fighting"."
Ok, the full run-down of the game...
1/ You start in the Robo-Lock Lab. Robo-Lock is the Trademark of Robo-Lock Robot Construction Parts. As the name suggests the parts lock together. You build your robot from a choice of 2000 default robot limbs, and parts. Each part can have advantages over another. Some are lightweight, some are toughened but heavier, some are faster, some can lift more weight, some are double jointed, some have springs for higher jumps, some are hydraulic, some are electric, some are just nicer styles. You have a cash limit, and you should try to get sponsorship by winning fights to buy better parts. You can customise the textures. Online you can buy more advanced parts.
2/ Your robot then requires an AI default chip. The default chip can have ready made moves. Without the default instructions you have a robot that wouldn't be able to get up off the floor. You can start like that if you wish, as a fully trained robot could end up more agile. But anyway you can buy some default moves which are simple moves to get you started. You can buy advanced moves as well, and online you can buy unique moves.
3/ You train your robot with a trainer bot. You control the trainer bot with the mouse, and keypad. The mouse, and keyboard moves are recorded. The AI robot tries to copy your moves from the trainer bot. These will gradually become its fighting moves, but AI takes time to learn. You teach it attack moves under the label of attack, and defence moves as defence, jump moves as jump, and weapon moves as weapon.
4/ Which brings us on to buying weapons. There are chainsaws, swords, hammers, metal bars, and you can buy more online.
5/ Once your robot is trained, you test it out in one of the fighting arenas. From easy arenas to Online World Championships. Your home computer is your test arena, but online fights are for real. Damage has to be repaired, and costs money, but online there is the possibility of total destruction. Online you have an account like Facebook for robots. When you upload a robot it has a profile. The online parts are often low-poly versions of the home computer parts. However if you reach the World Championships there is a video of the fights in HD which are recorded on a Base Computer. Only the 16 best robots can fight in the World Championships. With an online account you build up your status on a leaderboard of your wins, and losses. The scoring system works so that you score more against a robot with 100 wins, than a robot with 3 wins. But you can be totally destroyed so be careful. If a robot is destroyed a new one has to be uploaded. You lose your tally, and you lose that robot name.
6/ To win a fight you need to damage pressure pads hidden inside the robots. There are 5 pressure pads per robot, and the robot owner gets to hide them in slightly different places. But once a robot is uploaded, the pressure pads remain in their uploaded positions. Learn where to hit the World Champions to have an advantage over them. But the moves of the better robots may include defensive positions of these pads. The pads are also inside the body, so you need to hack through metal to get to them.
5 destroyed pads is death, but the owner of a robot is allowed to surrender, and just take a loss. You cannot fight the same robot twice unless it is in the World Championships. That prevents multiple account cheating. Also costs money to make an account, that is also to prevent cheating.
7/ Hopefully the game becomes so popular that the World Championships gets to be shown on TV in HD.
That's about it.
