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Botwars.io is a competitive programming game where players write code in their preferred programming language to control robots that battle each other. Launched in 2021, it combines game strategy with coding practice… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Botwars.io – Battle robots with your favourite programming language launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code▲444

   Bot Land is no longer playable as of October 22nd, 2020.

   2019 · bot.land · its alternatives →

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   Game where you write Python robots to fight other players▲142

   robotgame.org is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.

   2013 · robotgame.org · its alternatives →

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   Byte Arena – Code Your Fighter Bot▲179

   2017 · doc.bytearena.com · its alternatives →

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   Codewars▲198

   A coding practice website for all programming levels – Join a community of over 3 million developers and improve your coding skills in over 55 programming languages!

   2014 · codewars.com · its alternatives →

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   JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle▲137

   2014 · javascriptbattle.com · its alternatives →

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   Duolingo Bots▲631

   AI-powered characters to teach language conversation

   2016 · duolingo.com · its alternatives →

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   Battleboat.js – A robot that plays Battleship▲52

   2014 · kortaggio.github.io · its alternatives →

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   I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot▲430

   2015 · acuman.us · its alternatives →

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   Bot Builder by Recast.AI▲288

   Create the most advanced bots in the simplest way

   2016 · its alternatives →

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    BotList▲710

    An app store for bots

    2016 · views4you.com · its alternatives →

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    Bots in all languages by Recast.AI▲92

    Build multilingual bots easily!

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Wit.ai Bot Engine (Beta)▲186

    Helping developers make bots great again

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Dungeons and Data Structures ▲114

    Bomberman-like arena for bots coded in Python

    2021 · dnds.gocoder.one · its alternatives →

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    Bomberland – An AI competition to build the best Bomberman bot▲99

    Main di situs toto togel resmi paling gacor! Nikmati pasaran situs togel & bandar toto macau terpercaya, jaminan WD cepet & hoki tiap hari!

    2021 · gocoder.one · its alternatives →

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    Second▲299

    AI bots that add features to web apps

    2023 · second.dev · its alternatives →

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    Motion AI + Smooch.io▲275

    Build bots in minutes without code, deploy them anywhere

    2016 · smooch.io · its alternatives →

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    Bot Land▲83

    A free-to-play automated strategy game

    2019 · bot.land · its alternatives →

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    dmangame - a python AI game▲48

    over the past couple months, i've picked up an old project around writing AI in python. the premise is to code a strategy for an AI player to use in a simplified RTS game. the AI basically takes the seat of a human player and the human codes its brain. main site: http://okayzed.github.com/dmangame/introduction.html app engine server and match archive that runs and hosts games: http://dmangame-app.appspot.com github: http://github.com/okayzed/dmangame more AI: http://github.com/okayzed/dmanai i'm looking for players, comments, ideas, etc - thanks!

    2011 · okayzed.github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made a browser-based RTS game▲212

    I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…

    2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →

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    Run Code Snippets in Any Language Inside Your Blog▲75

    CodinGame is a challenge-based training platform for programmers where you can play with the hottest programming topics. Solve games, code AI bots, learn from your peers, have fun.

    2017 · tech.io · its alternatives →

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    CryptoBots▲89

    Find out whose bots army is the best

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Chat Bot Wars▲59

    Join the bot revolution!

    2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Card game where players write their own cards that get parsed into code▲114

    Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of…

    2023 · app.wordbots.io · its alternatives →

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    BattleBot.io▲13

    A Slack bot for tracking your office games.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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