Minecraft - Hour of Code VS Robocode

This is how I teach it: - I always start with https://studio.code.org/s/mc/lessons/1/levels/1 and mostly they have interest in it at the start. Many lose joy after the first tasks needing a bit of thinking, logical and problem solving skills… a lot of students today don‘t see a problem as motivation, they are not used to frustration, so they just stop. Source: 12 months ago

I used https://studio.code.org/s/mc/lessons/1/levels/1 (my kid was 12) and then https://codecombat.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

This idea seems similar to screeps, robocode, battle-code, and to a lesser extent, Neural MMO. Source: over 1 year ago

Looks cool! Reminds me of robocode. Source: over 1 year ago

I found https://robocode.sourceforge.io/ in Java, https://screeps.com/ in JavaScript (WASM from Golang seems not to work), and https://leekwars.com/ had its own language…. Source: almost 2 years ago

You had to write the intelligence of a robot/tank in a C-like language of these game development software. The bottom line is two of these programs competed against each other. If I remember correctly these battles took place in a recurring tournament and you could win a license of the game developement software, or maybe nothing. The only one I found in a 2-minute search that is similar to this is Robocode... Source: about 2 years ago

One of the first incantations of this idea that I encountered, when I had just started working at my first corporate job back in the day, was Robocode ( https://robocode.sourceforge.io/ ) - it was great fun, and I see it's still going. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago