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Yeah, you gotta love that one!
steffenj
2008-09-27 12:48:15
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Core War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_war) is the classic, where two programs run in a simulated machine, each trying to halt the other one.
Matt Curtis
2008-09-27 09:48:04
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Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game; c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.
Federico
2008-09-27 09:49:09
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GNU Robots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Robots) is a great way to get stuck into Lisp.
Matt Curtis
2008-09-27 09:49:34
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Starship Soccer (http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/horizon/8596/StarshipSoccer.html) pits C++ controlled teams against each other, playing a mix of Space War and football.
Matt Curtis
2008-09-27 09:51:29
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Good list on Wikipedia!
Programming games of note include Core War, Robocode, RoboWar, Robot Battle, Crobots and AI Wars. Final Fantasy XII also includes some elements of a programming game, as the player creates the AI of his characters, although the player can also choose to directly control the action.
Sklivvz
2008-09-27 09:55:32
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A little Flash game I found the other day: http://www.gameroo.nl/games/light-bot
Be careful, you will likely lose about an hour of your life ;)
Meff
2008-09-27 09:55:51
Stupid 3rd last level, reminds me of doing card house programming on micro controllers :P
cwap
2010-01-20 21:02:23
I was about to point to that. People should use search before asking a question (although this site is quickly become big, it took me a while to find back the question, knowing it exists!).
PhiLho
2008-09-27 10:38:05
I thought "Related Questions" would show any duplicates but it didn't. Also i'm interested in all of them, not just best :)
Constantin
2008-09-27 12:45:52
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Microsoft's Terrarium, which involved programming the intelligence of a creature using any .Net language, has now been open sourced to CodePlex
Rory Becker
2008-09-27 10:10:14
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Robocode is a great way to learn Java and have fun doing it. You write Java code to program a robot, which then battles it out against one or more other robots. It's years ago I tried it, but I remember having great fun doing it. We even programmed robots at work (in between the real work ;) ) and had a small competition going to see who could come up with the best algorithms. Recommended!
Tom De Leu
2008-09-27 10:26:59
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Lists and Lists: An interactive tutorial by Andrew Plotkin.
"An introductory course in the Scheme programming language (a dialect of Lisp) presented as a text adventure - or, to put it another way, a Scheme interpreter with a wee scrap of text adventure wrapped around it. Since it's Z-code, and the first Z-code games were written in another Lisp variant, there's an odd circularity to it all."
- Carl Muckenhoupt
Hugh Allen
2008-09-27 10:35:12