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Does anyone have a list of competitive programming challenges like this? Specifically where you're programming a board game against other algorithms. Googling "competitive programming challenges" doesn't yield a lot of good results.

I'm aware of http://fruitbots.org/, which I had a lot of fun with.

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These are seasonal and for recruiting but you might be interested: https://halite.io/ https://terminal.c1games.com/

I know https://leekwars.com/ and have seen a couple others coming by, both on HN and played by my friends, but I haven't seen such a list. There also seems to be a few interesting single player ones, like ruby-warrior.

I found the following while browsing AlternativeTo, it might be nice to fill in the others as well: https://codecombat.com/, https://robocode.sourceforge.io/,

https://screeps.com/ is pretty neat, lots of different ways you can try to adapt to different situations.

Scalatron[0] is a fun one. There's also screeps[1] available on steam. Screeps is probably my favorite because it supports webassembly. So you can use any language with it, like Rust, C++, etc...

[0]: https://scalatron.github.io/

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/464350/Screeps/

There is the old (very old) classic, Corewar [1]. I enjoyed playing Robowar[2] back in the day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboWar

This is a bit rough as an early release: Marionette AI available on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/652520/MarionetteAI/

BotLand is a blast (can write your own scripts or use built in options to get started without coding). There are also related developer streams on Twitch most days if you're into pulling back the curtain. https://bot.land/

https://www.pommerman.com/

Vindinium[1] is another fun one. It looks like the original game service is now offline but the server code is open source.

[1]: https://github.com/ornicar/vindinium

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