Programming games

In programming games, player have to develop algorithms for artificial intelligences.

List of Programming games

This is a list of free/libre programming games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
Infon Battle Arena		2006-10-01	Life simulation, RTS, Programming	Infon Battle Arena 2D renderer Genres Life simulation, RTS, Programming Latest release 265 Release date February 25th, 2008 Developer Florian Wesch Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C, Lua Libraries SDL Contribute Infon Battle Arena is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Infon Battle Arena is a real-time multiplayer programming game written by Florian Wesch. You control your creatures using the Lua programming language and let them compete for food and survival against other players. The game is client/server based and is playable over the internet. Players can upload code at any moment to update their code or fix bugs while the game is running in realtime. It is written in the C and Lua programming language using the SDL library. The latest release is 265 released on February 25th, 2008. The media and the source code are both licensed under the GPL.
Codewars	no image	2005-01-01	Programming	Codewars Genre Programming Latest release 0.3.0 RC4 Release date January 1st, 2005 Developers Timo Hallek, Ronny Peine Code license GPL P. languages Perl, C++ Contribute Codewars is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Codewars is a programming game written by Timo Hallek and Ronny Peine. The latest version of the game is 0.3.0 RC4 on January 1st, 2005. It is licensed under the GPL. The game was written in the C++ and Perl programming languages.
Ruby-warrior	no image	2012-04-28	Programming,Roguelike	Programming games Genre Programming,Roguelike Latest release Version 0.1.3 Release date 2012-04-28 Developer Ryan Bates Code license MIT Media license MIT P. language Ruby Contribute Programming games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Ruby-warrior is an AI programming game written in Ruby by Ryan Bates. It is licensed under a MIT license.
Guido van Robot		2010-03-04	Programming education	Guido van Robot Next Generation (GvRng) Guido van Robot (GvR) GvRng 3.1 running a complex program on a complex map. Genres Programming education Latest release GvRng: 4.4 Lessons: 0.5  (Announcement) Release date March 4th, 2010 Developers Developers Waseem Daher, Donald Oellerich, Paul Carduner, Lex Berezhny, Michele Moore, Steve Howell, Stas Zytkiewicz, Jeff Elkner Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language Python Libraries GTK (GvRng) wxPython (GvR) Contribute Guido van Robot Next Generation (GvRng) Guido van Robot (GvR) is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Guido van Robot is a programming language, an IDE and a tutorial designed as an introduction to the fundamentals of (Python) programming for beginners. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. The program includes a tutorial, whose latest release is 0.5. The program uses: A playfield called “world”, that is created or loaded as a list of locations of objects (walls and “beepers”) and the robot location and the direction it faces when a user program starts. A program, written or loaded by the user in a Python-like language that includes 5 instructions, 18 tests, conditional branching, iteration and new instruction definition.
Liberation Circuit		2017-04-15	Real Time Strategy Programming	Liberation Circuit: Rogue AI Simulator Liberation Circuit: Rogue AI Simulator Genre Real Time Strategy Programming Latest release 1.3  (Announcement) Release date April 15th, 2017 Developer Linley Henzell Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Contribute Liberation Circuit: Rogue AI Simulator is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Liberation Circuit is a real-time strategy game about escaping from a hostile computer system, by designing and building units sufficient to the task. Unit AIs are written in a simple C-like language; in an optional programming aspect of the game, the player may fully customize the AI of the units they built using an integrated compiler and editor.
Corewars		2002-10-31	Programming	Corewars Genre Programming Latest release 0.9.13(stable)  (Announcement) Release date October 31st, 2002 Developers Philip Thorne, Walter Hofmann Code licenses GPLv2 P. language C Library GTK Contribute Corewars is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Core Wars is a combat programming game in which warriors fight to the death in a virtual ring. It is written in the C programming language using the GTK library. It is developed by Philip Thorne and Walter Hofmann. The latest version of the game is 0.9.13(stable) released on October 31st, 2002.
Consomaton		2016-06-17	puzzle, programming	Consomaton Solving the second level of Consomaton (click to view animation) Genre puzzle, programming Latest release 1.0.0  (Announcement) Release date June 17th, 2016 Developer Kenta Cho (ABA) Code license "MIT" P. language TypeScript (compiled to JavaScript) Library Node.js and JavaScript libraries Contribute Consomaton is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Consomaton is a puzzle game revolving around cellular automata. The player has to set or change the rules of the automaton so that they transform a given starting state in a console to another given goal state.
Colobot		2023-08-08	RTS, programming	Colobot The astronaut watches as his winged grabber is about to change and recharge the shooting bot's power cell. Note the code to accomplish this on the right-hand side. Genre RTS, programming Latest release 0.2.1  (Announcement) Release date August 8th, 2023 Platforms Linux, Windows Developer Daniel Roux at Epsitec, TerranovaTeam Code license GPLv3+ Media license GPLv3+ Engine Ceebot P. language C++, CBOT Library Boost, OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL Contribute Colobot is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: colobot-gold  Debian: colobot  Fedora: colobot   OpenSUSE: colobot Colobot - colonise with bots - is a combination of a real-time strategy and a programming game. The player takes the role of an astronaut with the mission to find a habitable planet, after humankind plunged the Earth into an ecological catastrophe. The player is not on their own, but accompanied by programmable robots that can help in building and defending structures. Through a satellite link with 'Houston' she/he is directed to complete a number of missions on different planets. The game also involves a rather aggressive though evolving relationship with native alien lifeforms. Apart from the missions, there are also two game modes that instruct the player in the use of CBOT, the language used to program the bots. This language is rather similar to C++ and Java. During the missions, it's not really necessary to write code for the bots, but it is convenient to be able to adapt the programs Houston offers to the player. Version 0.1.6 introduced the Code Battle game mode, where players first provide all programs needed to operate a base and/or kill all enemies, and then let the programmed bots do their job without the possibility to interfere. The game provides three types of enemies: passive targets, pre-programmed bots and hot-seat play against a fellow human.

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