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Reminds me of my favorite programming game that no one has heard of: http://grobots.sourceforge.net http://grobots.sourceforge.net (Old video of grobots in act

• sackerhews 5y ago
  This is why I like reading the comments on HN. I'd never heard of Grobots, it's brilliant!
• buescher 5y ago
  Grobots looks like RobotWar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdCtxN96_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdCtxN96_o
• Udik 5y ago
  There is an old artificial life simulator (darwinbots http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Main_Page http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Main_Page ) that is inspired by grobots-like programming games. Each organism is driven by its own code that can mutate randomly at each reproduction. I've been trying to produce a web version of it. This is where I got so far (before more or less desisting): http://darwinjs.herokuapp.com/ http://darwinjs.herokuapp.com/
  • Tempest1981 5y ago
    Nicely done! Very fluid.
    • Udik 5y ago
      Thanks!
• hypertele-Xii 5y ago
  Then there's Core War from 1984 [1]. 11 years ago I computationally evolved a warrior (a program competing for virtual resources) and submitted it to the nano hill [2], it's still ranked top 20 to this day. Every few months the hill emails me the stats of someone trying to beat us with a new warrior :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War [2] http://sal.discontinuity.info/hill.php?key=nano http://sal.discontinuity.info/hill.php?key=nano