awesome-programming-games

The sequel to Human Resource Machine , but with parallel computing! Haven't played this one yet.

Indie MMORPG with optional automation of tedious grinding by programming player characters with JavaScript. (Appears to be abandoned.)

Rescue a colony ship's mission in space using a visual programming language. Users have claimed to experienced various difficulties including with a buggy Linux native version.

Learn to program by automating computerized cartoon ants in C# or VB.NET! Much documentation appears to be only available in the original German.

Meet the demands of a hectic commercial kitchen the best way anyone can: with programming! There are two related assembly languages used in game with some helpful visual elements for neophytes.

Build and, of course, automate a colony of agriculture and industry using a Scratch-like visual programming language.

Port of the aforementioned 7 Billion Humans to iOS devices.

Program the titular android, named Auto, to work in a factory using a C-like syntax.

See above for description.

See above for description.

Algorithmically light up floor tiles with a robot in a game that teaches procedures, loops and conditionals.

Similar to LightBot but a bit easier and targeted at a younger audience.

Artifacts is a Sandbox MMORPG where you can use any programming language to control your characters with our API.

Another one where robots duke it out on a shared battleground. The language appears to be a fairly pure assembly language without too many other influences.

Tank battle royale using 8086 assembly. Documentation is fairly scant but several pre-built robots are available. The available primitives include a random number generator, reminding me of how science fiction author Fred Saberhagen's fictional killing machines known as " Berserkers " use random numbers based on radioactive decay to make their behavior unpredictable.

Tank battler using assembly-like with languages with a few interesting nuances in addition to the standard milieu, such as the need to manage heat. Website includes the results of past tournaments and the source code of robot tanks entered into said tournaments.

Another, perhaps lesser-known tank battler using BASIC. The documentation seems quite excellent.

A programming game originally released on Macintosh (1984), and later ported to Commodore 64 and Apple II (1985), written by Doug Sharp and Mike Johnston. The player uses a visual programming language called IBOL to teach a virtual robot how to navigate various environments of varying difficulty. The game straddles the line between entertainment and programming education. The original versions are easily playable via in-browser emulation on the game's official website . The FORTH source code for the game was recovered and released for the game's 40th anniversary. The game has a modern reboot on Steam .

A game with a similar premise as RobotWar , though competing robots are now armed with missiles as well as a laser gun. In addition, the language created for this game appears to be partially inspired by Logo. The retrocomputing site Color Computer Archive hosts the original TRS-80 binary as well as a PDF of the original manual .