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.
  • Taylor Rollo, Mary "Robot War: Strategy for Learning."
    Softtalk (Jan 1981): 18-20.
  • 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.
  • "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.
  • 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.
  • de Weger, Mark "Battle of the RAM."
    The Micro User (Jan 1988): 42-43.
  • de Weger, Mark "The program strikes back."
    The Micro User (Feb 1988): 52-54.
  • Dewdney, A. K. "Computer Recreations: Of worms, viruses and Core War."
    Scientific American (Mar 1989): 110-113.