Bot Hunt was developed by Douglas King aka "Sea4" as an extension to the BGBot.
The first and only version of this bot was released as bthnt10.zip.
The release was uploaded to ftp.cdrom.com in the quakec/bots/ directory where it remained, including in modern mirrors of the directory.
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-- http://www.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/quakec/bots/ (archived December 25 1996)
A copy of the bot can be found on "Shareware Extravaganza 8 (Disk 8)" collection on CD 2. A copy can also be found on "Cream of The Crop 22" CDROM in the "DOOM/QUAKE3.ZIP" zip file. It also appears on the "Toolkit For Quake (QTool_0197)" CDROM and the "Power Tools for Quake (Europe)"" CDROM.
The zip file contains a readme file (BTHNT10.TXT) and the compiled game code (PROGS.DAT).
No source code is included in this release.
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The reamde lists the bot as version 1.0 and the release date as September 18 1996. This matches the timestamps of files in the zip and the timestamps of files uploaded to ftp.cdrom.com.
Title : Bot Hunt
Filename : bthnt10.zip
Version : 1.0
Date : 9/18/96
Author : Sea4 ( a.k.a. Douglas H. King )
-- bthnt10.txt
The release credits the BGBot, on which this bot was based, as well as progenitor bots including the DMBot and TMbot. The readme also credits the Multiskin release which was incorporated into the bot to support multiple different skins for the bot.
The bot supports both cooperative and deathmatch play.
Impulse 100 creates 1 bot, but up to 13 with different names.
This(these) bot(s) will help you in co-op and kill you in deathmatch. My
computer sucks and can only handle up to 9. These bots will be
like a real player. Can pick up everything, but the invisibility
does not work right and the biosuit doesn't matter. They gib if they
happen to fire lightning underwater. They can use all weapons and
will resort to the axe when out of ammo.
-- bthnt10.txt
Douglas also released a weapon mod called "Pistol" that had at least 3 versions.
In the final version of the mod, he also mentioned his "Bot Hunt" mod.
Author info : Made Bot Hunt 1.0 ...
-- pistol13.txt
- Bot Hunt v1.0, bthnt10.zip, September 18 1996.
- http://www.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/quakec/bots/ (archived December 25 1996)