Best programming based games [closed]

Answer 1

If you want to step away from your keyboard, Wizards of the Coast relased a game called RoboRally that is a combative programming board game.

http://www.wizards.com/roborally/

Answer 2

I'd say the most famous programming game there has been is the core wars. I don't know if you can still find active "rings" although there was a lot when I tried it some time ago (4 or 5 years).

Answer 3

Matt, I think the game you're referring to is CRobots (or one of its clones, perhaps -- my first contact was with PRobots, in Pascal, if I remember correctly). It was a lot of fun.

Answer 4

I think the original game was called Core Wars (this Wikipedia article contains a lot of interesting links); there still seem to be programs and competitions around, for example at corewars.org. I never had the time to look into these games, but they seem like great fun.

Answer 5

A game in which you have to graphically construct and train artificial neural networks in order to control a bug is Bug Brain.

Bug Brain screen shot http://www.infionline.net/~wtnewton/oldcomp/bugbrain.jpg

Answer 6

I'm surprised that Space Chem isn't mentioned yet. Programming with symbols, but programming nevertheless.

http://spacechemthegame.com/