Sunday 6 November 2011

A Bibliography of Programming Games

The Programming Games Bibliography is an attempt to compile a complete list of articles / papers on the subject. A Programming Game is played by writing programs to compete against each other, typically by attempting to disable opponents in the memory of a virtual computer or by controlling simulated battle robots.

Please help complete the list by leaving a comment if you remember an article not listed, even if you can only recall vague details. :-)

Bibliography

  • Vyssotsky, Victor A. Darwin: A Game of Survival and (Hopefully) Evolution.
    New Jersey: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1961.
  • 0 "Computer Recreations: Darwin."
    Software: Practice and Experience 2 (Jan-Mar 1972): 93-96.
  • Nelson, Theodor H. "Survival of the Fittest."
    Computer Lib / Dream Machines. Self-published, 1974. 49.
  • Nelson, Theodor H. "Survival of the Fittest."
    The CoEvolution Quarterly (Summer 1975): 141.
  • Taylor Rollo, Mary "Robot War: Strategy for Learning."
    Softtalk (Jan 1981): 18-20.
  • Voskuil, Jon "Robotwar."
    SoftSide (Sep 1981): 92-93.
  • Lubar, David "Robotwar."
    Creative Computing (Oct 1981): 68-69.
  • White, Harry "Robot War."
    The Space Gamer 45 (Nov 1981): 4.
  • Edmunds, William "Robotwar: A Wargame for All Programmers."
    Computer Gaming World (Nov-Dec 1981): 13-16,33.
  • "Computer Gaming World's Robotwar Tournament."
    Computer Gaming World (Nov-Dec 1981): 17.
  • Feigel, Curtis "Robotwar."
    BYTE (Dec 1981): 24-34.
  • Hunter, David "Olympic Metals: The RobotWar Tournaments."
    Softline (Jul 1982): 28-30.
  • "Robotwar: Tournament Results."
    Computer Gaming World (Mar-Apr 1983): 30-31.
  • Hoffman, Paul S. "Robots Maneuver Humans Into Programming."
    The Rainbow (Apr 1983): 140-142.
  • Calle, Carlos "Robot Battle."
    HOT CoCo (Sep 1983): 53-54.
  • "We Have a Draw! Robotwar Tournament Results."
    Computer Gaming World (Apr 1984): 36.
  • Dewdney, A. K. "Computer Recreations: In a game called core war hostile programs engage in a battle of bits."
    Scientific American (May 1984): 14–22.
  • "4th Annual Robotwar Tournament."
    Computer Gaming World (Jan 1985): 9.
  • Dewdney, A. K. "Computer Recreations: A Core War bestiary of viruses, worms and other threats to computer memories."
    Scientific American (Mar 1985): 14-23.
  • "Nobody Wins 4th Annual CGW Robotwar Tournament."
    Computer Gaming World (Jun-Jul 1985): 9.
  • Cottrell, Jon "Core Wars."
    Your Computer (Sep 1985): 72–74.
  • Martínez Lara, Sergio "Batcode, una auténtica batalla dentro de tu ordenador."
    MICROHOBBY 70 (18-24 Mar 1986): 22-23.
  • Martínez Lara, Sergio "Batcode, una auténtica batalla dentro de tu ordenador (II)."
    MICROHOBBY 71 (25 Mar - 1 Apr 1986): 28-30.
  • Martínez Lara, Sergio "Batcode (III)."
    MICROHOBBY 73 (8-14 Apr 1986): 28-29.
  • Martínez Lara, Sergio "Batcode, una batalla dentro de tu ordenador (y IV)."
    MICROHOBBY 74 (15-21 Apr 1986): 28-29.
  • Eliraz, Ziv "Core Wars."
    Dragon User (Sep 1986): 16-21.
  • Dewdney, A. K. "Computer Recreations: A program called MICE nibbles its way to victory at the first Core War tournament."
    Scientific American (Jan 1987): 14-20.
  • Edgar, Gerald A. "Darwin: A survival game for programmers."
    Computer Language (Apr 1987): 79-86.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Core Wars."
    MCmicrocomputer 67 (Oct 1987): 118-120.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Redcode e Mars."
    MCmicrocomputer 68 (Nov 1987): 138-142.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Strategia e tattica."
    MCmicrocomputer 69 (Dec 1987): 142-146.
  • Fisch, Henrik and Joachim Graf. "Kampfprogramme: Schlacht im Computer."
    Happy Computer (Dez 1987): 26-32,117-125.
  • de Weger, Mark "Battle of the RAM."
    The Micro User (Jan 1988): 42-43.
  • Wörrlein, Hartmut and Henrik Fisch. "Das Kampfprogram für den C64."
    Happy Computer (Jan 1988): 51,66-67.
  • de Weger, Mark "The program strikes back."
    The Micro User (Feb 1988): 52-54.
  • Fisch, Henrik "Die Schlacht im Computer (Teil 2)."
    Happy Computer (Feb 1988): 131-133.
  • White, Ron "Pulse Train: Spawning a Computer “Virus”."
    80 Micro (Mar 1988): 16-18.
  • "25th Anniversary of Computer Games Weekend."
    The Computer Museum Report 22 (Spring 1988): 1-2.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il torneo di Boston."
    MCmicrocomputer 76 (Jul-Aug 1988): 88-91.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il torneo italiano."
    MCmicrocomputer 77 (Sep 1988): 128-132.
  • Spork, Maz "Slaget om Siliciummet."
    DataTid (Sep 1988): 92-94.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Fiat Lux."
    MCmicrocomputer 79 (Nov 1988): 142-144.
  • Tausend, Thomas "Kampf in der RAM-Arena."
    ATARI magazin (Jan 1989): 38-39.
  • Dewdney, A. K. "Computer Recreations: Of worms, viruses and Core War."
    Scientific American (Mar 1989): 110-113.
  • Simeoni, Fabio "La Guerra dei Nuclei."
    Commodore Computer Club (May 1989): 20-23.
  • Spira, Jeff and William R. Buckley. "Core Wars."
    Commodore Magazine (May 1989): 60-61.
  • Gualdi, Marco "RedCode."
    MCmicrocomputer 88 (Set 1989): 276-278.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "CW: il secondo Torneo Italiano."
    MCmicrocomputer 92 (Jan 1990): 128-131.
  • "Final Omega Tournament Results."
    Computer Gaming World 70 (Apr 1990): 38.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Crobots."
    MCmicrocomputer 97 (Jun 1990): 159-162.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Primo Torneo di Crobots di MC-Link."
    MCmicrocomputer 108 (Jun 1991): 148-150.
  • Zientara, Wojciech "Wojny rdzeniowe."
    Moje Atari (Lip-Sie 1990): 6-8.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Primo Torneo di Crobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 115 (Feb 1992): 156-160.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Secondo Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 124 (Dec 1992): 248-253.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Terzo Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 135 (Dec 1993): 262-267.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Quarto Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 146 (Dec 1994): 270-274.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Quinto Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 157 (Dec 1995): 264-268.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Sesto Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 168 (Dec 1996): 302-307.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "Il Settimo Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 179 (Dec 1997): 218-222.
  • Giustozzi, Corrado "L'Ottavo Torneo di CRobots di MCmicrocomputer."
    MCmicrocomputer 190 (Dec 1998): 144-147.

2 comments:

  1. If only *some* of these articles were available...

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  2. in the 2000s Microsoft promoted a system with virtual ants, that you can implement in some .net languages.

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