awesome-programming-games

Programming game collection

A curated list of programming games that showcase programming concepts and ideas.

An ultra mega giga curated list of programming games

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Classic Games (in Order of Release)
Darwin (1961)
RobotWar (1970s)

Classic Games (in Order of Release) / RobotWar (1970s)
Original Apple II Binary
Modern Clojure Reimplementation 11 over 2 years ago

Classic Games (in Order of Release)
Color Robot Battle (1981)

Classic Games (in Order of Release) / Color Robot Battle (1981)
Original TRS-80 Binary Can Be Found Here

Classic Games (in Order of Release)
Rocky's Boots (1982)

Classic Games (in Order of Release) / Rocky's Boots (1982)
Manual

Classic Games (in Order of Release)
Robot (1983) (n.b.: Sol-20 binaries are written in text for the so discovering text files is to be expected)
Core War (1984)
Robot Odyssey (article includes links to usable implementations and manual)
Arena (1985)
CROBOTS (1985)
P-Robots (1988)
Xtank (1988) (project being modernized on GitHub; much documentation apparently outdated)
Omega (1989)
Jintori (1990) ( )
RoboWar (1990)

Classic Games (in Order of Release) / RoboWar (1990)
Modern implementation of the same
What scant documentation I could find

Classic Games (in Order of Release)
Battle Droids (1991)
ARobots (1992)
AT-Robots (1992)
Combat Zone (1993)
CoreLife (1993)
TclRobots (1994) 14 over 13 years ago
TORCS (1997)

Recent Games, Traditional Software / Tomorrow Corporation (in Order of Release)
Human Resource Machine
7 Billion Humans

Recent Games, Traditional Software / Zachtronics (in Order of Release)
KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People
The Bureau of Steam Engineering
SpaceChem
Infinifactory
TIS-100
SHENZHEN I/O
Opus Magnum
EXAPUNKS
MOLEK-SYNTEZ

Recent Games, Traditional Software / Others
Adventure Land
Algo Bot
AntMe!
Automachef
Autonauts
Baba Is You
Bashcrawl
Battlesnake
Blockland
Bug Brain
CHR$(143)
Code E.D.
Codemancer
Code Hero
Colobot
Colobot: Gold Edition
Comet 64
Craftomation: Programming & Craft
Crescent Loom
Cyber Sentinel
Damn Vulnerable Web Application 10,423 about 2 months ago
DeepestWorld
Debugger 3.16: Hack 'n' Run
Dreamjob: Programmer
Duskers
Else Heart.Break()
Exception
Exploit Exercises
git-game 3,131 7 months ago
git-game-v2 624 over 1 year ago
Google Gruyère
Gladiabots
Glitchspace
GNU Robots
Graphomata
Great Permutator
Grey Hack
hackmud
Hacknet
Hack 'n' Slash
Joy of Programming
Kodu
KnotBot
Logic World
LogicBots
The Magic Circle
Marvellous Inc.
Mechanica
MHRD
Midnight Protocol
MindRover
Minecraft Hour of Code
Move Code Lines
Neon Noodles
Oh My Git
One Dreamer
Pony Island
Prelogate
Prime Mover
Pure Logic
Quadrilateral Cowboy
Rec Room
Robo Instructus
Robocode
Robocoder - Dwarf Mountain
Rogue Bit
Roody:2d
Sand:box
Scalatron
Screeps
Selfless Heroes
[the Sequence]
SIC-1
Silicon Zeroes
Stone Story RPG
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Super Markup Man
Swarm
Swift Playgrounds
ToonTalk
trAInsported
Turing Complete
TwilioQuest
Virtual Circuit Board
Uplink
while True: learn()

Recent Games, Mobile / Cyber Sentinel
Android
iOS

Recent Games, Mobile / Gladiabots
Android
iOS

Recent Games, Mobile / Human Resource Machine
Android
iOS

Recent Games, Mobile / LightBot
Android
iOS
Amazon

Recent Games, Mobile / LightBot Jr
Android
iOS
Amazon

Recent Games, Mobile
Make It True (Android only)
Perfect Paths (iOS only)
Rec Room (iOS only)

Recent Games, Mobile / RoboZZle
Android
iOS

Recent Games, Mobile / SpriteBot
Android
iOS

Recent Games, Mobile
Swift Playgrounds (iPad only)
7 Billion Humans (iOS only)

Recent Games, Browser- or Server-Based
AI Cup
Bitburner
BOX-256
Battlecode
Blockly
Carnival
CodeCraft
CSS Diner
CTF Learn
CheckiO
Code Games
Code Monkey
Code.org
CodeCombat
Codingame
corewars8086_js
Cube Composer
Elevator Saga
Flexbox Defense
Flexbox Froggy
Flexbox Zombies
generals.io
Grid Critters
Grid Garden
Hack The Box
hackable.ca
hacker.org
HackThisSite
Hacker 101 CTF
Halite
Hellbound Hackers
Imagegram
io.netgarage.org
JavaScript Fight Club
Komodo Consulting CTF
Leek Wars
LogicBox
Manufactoria
Microcorruption
Much Assembly Required
NandGame
OverTheWire
picoCTF
Practice CTF List / Permanent CTF List (a comprehensive list of CTF challenges specifically; have not examined every entry; see also this and this )
pwnable.kr
pwnable.tw
Regex Crossword
RingZer0 Team Online CTF
Roadmap
Robot Rumble
RoboZZle
Ruby Warrior
Schemaverse
Service Workies
Slush Smackdown
Smash the Stack
SpaceTraders API (RESTful API MMO Space Trading game)
Tic-Tac-Toe
Tynker
Untrusted
Vim Adventures (n.b.: $25 for six months access to the full version)
Vindinium 170 almost 6 years ago
VulnHub
W3Challs
WarriorJS
WeChall (not the same as the other, similar-sounding entry!)
XSS Game
yare.io

Recent Games, Console
Baba Is You (Switch)
Carnage Heart (PlayStation)
Dreams (PlayStation 4)

Recent Games, Console / Exception
PlayStation 4
Switch
Xbox One

Recent Games, Console
7 Billion Humans (Switch)

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