Just like you said - distant planet, searching for resources, replicating and building new robots... The differences are that they fight aliens instead of competing with each other, and there's actually a player, who writes program, but can also perform some actions.
And they are not full-size virtual PCs, they can be programmed in some sort of C++-like language.
Nice game, I love it, too bad they seem to stop developing.
That looks pretty cool, thanks for pointing it out.
It's certainly got a lot of what I had in mind although I think it would be more fun to make it a little more advanced. I can imagine it being aimed at more experienced programmers with the operunity to do all sorts of cool stuff like computer vision.
The game like this already exists, it's called Colobot: http://www.ceebot.com/colobot/index-e.php
Just like you said - distant planet, searching for resources, replicating and building new robots... The differences are that they fight aliens instead of competing with each other, and there's actually a player, who writes program, but can also perform some actions.
And they are not full-size virtual PCs, they can be programmed in some sort of C++-like language.
Nice game, I love it, too bad they seem to stop developing.