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I just thought I’d come make a quick post about Kaiou.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I know the bot is older than the hills (been in development since 1999 which is ancient in Internet terms) but it’s my little baby.  I haven’t been working on it much lately due to all my free programming time being devoted to Battle Arena, but there’s still things I’d like to do with the bot eventually.

But I’ve decided to upload all of Kaiou’s source up to an SVN.  If anyone is reading this and is brave enough to set foot into Kaiou’s code territory, feel free to submit some changes for the bot.  Otherwise, all of the current Kaiou code will be posted there until I officially finish the release (which will continued to be uploaded here on the site).

http://code.google.com/p/kaiou-battle-bot/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk

7.6b has been released! As always, details of the patch are after the jump.

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7.6 has been released!  For the changelog and download links, continue after the jump.
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So it has come to my attention that some lame script kiddies decided to deface my website. While this doesn’t say too many positive things about WordPress’ security, it says even less about the idiots who exploit it. I mean, really. What does anyone gain by turning Iyouboushi.com into a “LOLOL I HACKED UR SITE D00D!” page advertising their group? Are we really impressed that you took down my personal website that only hosts a few translations and programs I’ve made? Have you really accomplished anything aside from making me waste a whopping ten minutes to get it all back up online (and backed up)? People need to get lives that don’t involve pretending to be oh so l337 just because they can run a few scripts.

In other news, Kaiou 7.6 is just about done. I don’t know if you’ve been following the news over on the forum or not, but this is going to be a pretty decent version of the bot. I’ve still got a little bit left to add and then it’ll be time to test a bunch of stuff to make sure everything is working OK. Once I’m satisfied that there aren’t any major bugs, I’ll zip it up and get it up for everyone to download and enjoy. I’m hoping it’ll be done by the end of March, but don’t hold me to it. :)

So yeah, that’s about all the updates from me for now. Stay tuned for more!

I’ve begun work on Kaiou 7.6, finally after quite a bit of time.

The first thing I’m working on is adding the (long-needed) Monster Types. Basically monster types will act as templates for your newly created monsters. Let’s say you want to make a Dragon. You could, of course, create your dragon and then set everything manually (all the techs, skills, resistances, etc). But if you wanted to save some time you could use a pre-made template for Dragons that comes with some basic Dragon-like techs and skills, plus natural armor and resistances/weaknesses/etc and then add your own stuff to it afterwards.

 
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7.5d has been released! For the changelog of what’s new in this version and the download link keep reading after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »

The Kaiou 7.5c patch has been released! Continue after the jump for the changelog and download link. Read the rest of this entry »

Picture this scene. The heroes have chased the alien invader who is threatening to destroy Earth back to his ship. They enter the ship and find him in a strange room. The alien begins to laugh and the room glows and sucks out the ability for the heroes to use their boosts and items. A battle begins with those conditions applied.

Hard to imagine that such a thing is possible in Kaiou. Up until version 7.5c it WAS impossible (except for, perhaps, the honor system between players and DMs). Not any more though! Now the DM who started the battle can tell the bot that this battle will not allow boosting and items to be used.

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I’m currently working on Kaiou 7.5c. This time it will be a bit slower of a release, so don’t expect this one for a little while longer. I just thought I’d post a preview post showing a few things that are in the works.
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I ended up finding some bugs since the last release and wanted to fix them. While I was doing that I went ahead and rewrote the way accuracy works in the bot. Be sure to check out accuracy.txt inside the documentation folder for more information. Full changelog below the jump.
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