What are good "Programming Game" Scenarios?

[Sauer2]

Hi everyone,

does anyone know a good scenario for a programming game appart the classical robot/tank/bacterium vz others approach?

best regards
Sauer2

[hc]

Had to re-read, too.
What he's talking about games where your objective is to program a robot to fight against another programmed robot in an arena.
Therefore a "Programming Game". And the programmed thing is usualy said to be a tank or a robot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_game

[riidom]

One idea I got in mind:
an Elite-like scenario, planets, stations and ships, and buy-low sell-high trading. The player is like a trade fleet commander, sitting on some station and sending out his ships. Since there is no communication possible after a ship undocked and got into hyperspace, it has to be provided with instructions about how to trade the freight, how to react on certain events like pirates, under what circumstances by new freight, and return home after how many jumps/trade/time.

Another idea, though still based on robots, is the concept of the board game robo-rally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRally
http://images.funagain.com/back/huge/15178.jpg

[Sauer2]

@riksweeney: Sorry for the ambiguity. I meant a programming game as described by hc.

@riidom: That are good ideas, the first sounds like a preprogrammed, small rpg, if i got you right.
One idea i thought of could be like asteroids/M.A.R.S., but with programmed players, since i guess, acceleration is harder to control than direct movement. But i have to admit, that would lack orginality.

[ctdabomb]

here is a game that is already made with programming viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2335

[Sauer2]

Interesting. Does the behavior of one mutant affect other mutants?

[ctdabomb]

I don't know. play the game and find out

[Sauer2]

OK

[qubodup]

It might be easy to disguise code as "spells"... and there you go: a fantasy scenario! Code drawn with ink on fancy paper = magic words.

[Sauer2]

That reminds me of freedroidrpg...
Well, i took a look in their forum and it doesn't seem as if something like this was planned.

Anyway, thanks for your answers, everyone.

[Tranberry]

I say you could just as well use humans to be 'programmed' I envision something like Frozen Synapse, but yeah done in this genre.