About ROG

Robot Overlord Games is an independent game development studio based between Glasgow (UK) and Iowa (USA).

ROG began as a name under which Luke Dicken developed small test projects that proved particular aspects of his artificial intelligence research, but has now grown to work on complete projects as well as providing AI contracting and consulting services to other developers. We most recently worked on Redshirt, a forthcoming title from The Tiniest Shark. We are also working on our own projects, which we’re really pleased to be able to start to introduce to you.

Our first game is called “Easy Money?” and has been designed by ROG’s In-House Designer Heather Decker-Davis. The game explores risk and reward – will you risk losing everything to climb the hiscore table, or will you play it safe and cash out early? We’re currently in public Alpha testing with our early-stage builds of the game, which you can check out for yourself here! You can learn more about the technology we’re using and the development process for Easy Money? by reading the blog.

You can keep track of us on Twitter: @RO_Games or Like our page on Facebook

Changing of the Guard

It’s a sad post today – Heather Decker-Davis has had to end her affiliation with Robot Overlord Games. Over the past year, Heather’s been a co-conspirator on many projects as well as my partner here at ROG. Unfortunately, our small-time operation here doesn’t pay the bills (…or anything at the moment…), and her new full-time …

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Conway’s Game of Life

I’ve not had much chance to do development on Easy Money? recently, but I did want to keep my practice up with Unity, so last night I whipped together an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life. This is a great toy AI demo, or technically Artificial Life. The rules are pretty simple, at each iteration …

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