Worms?

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Worms? is a 1983 computer game written by David Maynard for Electronic Arts, released for the Atari 800 and Commodore 64.

The game is fairly abstract, like Conway's Game of Life, but the player's ostensible goal is to optimally program one or more "worm"s (each a sort of cellular automaton) to grow and survive as long as possible. As the worms move, they generate aleatoric music.

[edit] References

• TheLegacy article on Worms? including screenshot and cover.

• "Worm Paths", chapter 17 in: Martin Gardner, 1986, Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments, W. H. Freeman and Company.

• "Patterson's Worm", Michael Beeler, MIT AI Memo #290. (early 1970s?)

• Games::Worms, a Perl implementation of a Worms?-like game, by Sean M. Burke.