Is there such a genre where the main gameplay focuses on writing bots?

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What is the name of the genre of game where you don't actually play, but rather you program your own player, using, e.g. a scripting language?

I'm not asking for a list. I'm asking for the terminology used for these games. I'm struggling to find one example in Google, which I blame to my lack of right keywords.

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Best Answer

These games are referred to as Programming Games or Programming Based Game. Some of these games include Robocode and Robowar. If you are into programming, you should check out StackOverflow, another QnA on StackExchange.



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