Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

4 of 59 comments (clear)

  1. corewars.org?! Try http://www.corewar.info instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.corewar.info/ Is maintained by Christrian Schmidt, one of the great corewars men. Or you could go to http://www.corewar.co.uk/ Maintained by John Metcalf, corewar hall of famer.

    Or better yet, you could try www.koth.org or sal.math.ualberta.ca and go straight to the hills.

  2. Intro to the game by Rightcoast · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a very simple introduction for anyone new to the game and interested in playing.



    http://www.koth.org/info/corewars_for_dummies/dumm ies.html
  3. Acronym by Noksagt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slashdot submitters: try to explain acronyms you use in your submission. Same should go to people who make the original websites too. It took a lot of poking around to figure out ICFP=International Conference on Functional Programming.

  4. Corewar links correction by lastfish · · Score: 3, Informative

    The corewars site linked to in the story has never been known to be active or complete.

    The KOTH server is home to the "pro" hills of which 94NOP is the most active.
    The most up-to-date site for info & links is Fizmo's.

    There are beginner's hills and others at
    SAL hills
    Yellow hills

    There's also an IRC channel at irc://irc.koth.org#corewars

    Ant wars looks interesting - pity the event is over