But I am not sure its very similar, I got a lot of inspiration from the WarGames (1983) movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
The whole project started as an attempt just to teach assembler, and the game was actually zero choice game like Snakes And Ladders, you have 5 instructions per turn, but on certain places you have to roll a dice and follow the branch: https://punkx.org/overflow/build/snakes-and-ladders.pdf
But then after watching WarGames I thought I can make something where you can just write on top of your opponent's memory.
CoreWar has very different dynamics and I think anyone who has not tried it is missing out.
At some point I thought to actually make the game real-time, as in you can move as your opponent moves, (SMP instead of time sharing like it is now, where you get context switched out in 10 moves), but it was too chaotic. Maybe with the esp32 helper it can be done and be fun.
... wait a second are you really punkx?
The part where they made it play tictactoe :)
> wait a second are you really punkx
Not sure what you mean, its just a name I picked to mean 'punk for X' where X is whatever you want.