Attribution

This project, The Book of Robocode, builds on two decades of work by many people across Robocode and Robocode Tank Royale.

Primary Authors & Stewards

Flemming Nørnberg Larsen (fnl) — Author of The Book of Robocode; Robocode maintainer (2005–present); creator of Robocode Tank Royale.
- GitHub Profile
- RoboWiki User Page
Mathew A. Nelson — Original creator of Robocode (2001–2005).
Julian Kent (Skilgannon) — Current host and administrator of RoboWiki.net; creator/maintainer of the LiteRumble ranking system; creator of DrussGT.
- RoboWiki User Page

Pavel Savara — Major contributions to Robocode core development (modularization, replays, and build systems).
- GitHub Profile
Kev (kc) — Author of GresSuffurd; holder of the current 1-vs-1 crown.
- RoboWiki User Page
RoboWiki Contributors — Decades of foundational research and mathematical analysis by the community.
Tournament Organizers & Bot Authors — All those who shared their code and knowledge.

Peter Strömberg (PEZ) — Founder and original administrator of RoboWiki (2003–2007); creator of CassiusClay.
- RoboWiki User Page
Crippa — Co-founder of RoboWiki (2003).
- RoboWiki User Page
Patrick Cupka (Voidious) — Former RoboWiki manager and author of definitive strategy guides; creator of Dookious.
- RoboWiki User Page

David Alves — Invented the Wave concept; co-pioneer of GuessFactor Targeting; creator of Phoenix.
- RoboWiki User Page
Paul Evans — Co-pioneer of GuessFactor Targeting (statistical bins); popularized Segmentation; creator of SandboxDT.
- RoboWiki User Page
Alexandros (ABC) — Invented Wave Surfing; pioneered Dynamic Clustering; creator of Shadow.
- RoboWiki User Page
Kyle Huntington (Kawigi) — Popularized high-level targeting through tutorials and the FloodMini bot.
- RoboWiki User Page

Albert Perez — Creator of RoboRumble; pioneered Precise Prediction physics simulation.
- RoboWiki User Page
Corbos — First to mention k-D Trees on the RoboWiki.
- RoboWiki User Page
Nathaniel Simonton (Simonton) — Built the first k-D tree implementation in a bot (* *Diamond**).
- RoboWiki User Page
Rednaxela — Developed highly optimized Java k-D Tree implementations and introduced advanced pruning strategies; creator of RougeDC and PolishedRuby.
- RoboWiki User Page
Julian Kent (Skilgannon) — Developed the Bucket-PR k-D tree, extending the performance race to commercial-grade efficiency.
- Bucket-PR GitHub

Much of the knowledge contained in this book is derived from the collaborative efforts on RoboWiki.net.