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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. Very cute but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...if you'd like to see a more advanced simulator which has an ant demo, see MASON. A nice paper on it was presented at AAMAS this year.

  2. Bug Brain by tuxter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is quite a nice visual program. The idea is to build a brain to "run" a bug. Nice educational tool....