Quake Bot Archive

The goal of this project is to archive all versions of all Quake bots.

About

Quake is a computer game released by id Software in mid 1996. The source code (QuakeC) that controls the game was released shortly after.

A Quake bot modification (mod) is a third-party server-side modification to the Quake game code (QuakeC) to introduce intelligent non-playable characters, typically opponents for deathmatch play. A client-side Quake bot is a third-party program that communicates with the game via the network protocol and adds intelligent non-playable characters to the game.

Quake bots represent a historical breakthrough in computer game artificial intelligence (e.g. opponents that act like human players) and are also a lot of fun to play (e.g. a multiplayer game that can be enjoyed as a single player game).

Quake bots were mostly developed between 1996 and 2000 and were hosted on a tangle of third-party websites. Most of these websites have disappeared over the last 25 years, along with many bots themselves. This is a terrible loss!

This project seeks to (1) locate, (2) archive, and (3) host all versions of all Quake bots in their original distributed form.

If you have backups of old Quake bots, you can help.

If you need help running bots in quake, see this excellent guide by Joel Baxter.

Quake Bot Chronology and Genealogy

Here are some fun meta projects using the quake bot archive:

• Quake Bot Chronology
• Quake Bot Essays

Quake Bot Genealogy:

Quake Bot List

Alphabetical list of Quake bot names, authors, and local download links for all QuakeC bots (server-side) in the bin/ directory.