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2004 ICFP Contest Spinoff Game

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-hack dept.

TheRealFoxFire writes "Taking a page from the popular Corewars competitive programming game, the 2004 ICFP Programming Contest task has been turned into an online competition: Ant Wars. In the game, programmers create state-machine ant "brains" which battle against each other for food and programmer glory. And just in time for the ICFP contest itself, where this year's winners will be announced."

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  1. ...but that would be cool, too... by BalorTFL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Totally misread this the first time around:

    ...In the game, programmers with state-machine ant "brains" battle against each other for food and programmer glory...

  2. My entry... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    [start] --> [attackjudges]
    [attackjudges] --> [checkrankings]
    [checkrankings] --> [idle] , if rank is "1st"
    [checkrankings] --> [attackjudges] , otherwise
    [idle] --> [checkrankings]

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  3. take the test.... by leav · · Score: 1, Funny

    will the ants take the turing test do determine who gets to be the queen? i'm not witty.

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  4. Google ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    The best part is the Google ads on that page. The algorithm totally failed, with four ads for ant-control. Yes, real ants.

    Oh well.

  5. Check out the Google ads on the Ant Wars page by corporatemutantninja · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess the Google algorithm took the words "ant" and "programmer" and assumed some kind of nasty infestation.

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