Programming games are games where the actual playing is done by a computer program. The challenge is to write the program that controls the actions. The idea is that the better program wins.
A.I. Wars
A.I. Wars is a shareware game from Tactical Neuronics that allows you to design the artificial intellegence of an insect-like mechanized unit using its AI Command Language and then send the insect into battle to see how it handles itself against other AI units.
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AI Fleet Commander
Fleets of automated war machines patrol the vast expanses between the planets. It is too perilous for humans, too distant for remote control.
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Cadaver
A simulated world program, where farming and fighting drones roam, controlled by AI client programs.
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CodedWombat
CodedWombat is a programing game, where little round coloured balls (robots) fire even smaller red balls at each other (bullets).In this you can code small robots, using a simple language (in the final version) or in the robots machine code or in C++.The robots (once coded) can then fight it out in a area.
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Core War
Core War is a game in which programmed warriors battle for supremacy inside of a virtual computer.
FAQs, Help, and Tutorials,
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CybWar
3D battle game with tanks, where you program your tanks using JavaScript.
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Karel the Robot
Karel The Robot is a robot simulator that affords a gentle introduction to computer programming.
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RealTimeBattle
A programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.
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Robotics
Programming games that mentions "robots", "robotic" and/or "bot".
AT-Robots,
Automata Zero,
Cheth,
Colobot,
CRobots,
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