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Empire of Code is the first game for coders where you can win without any coding
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- arbitrage314 11y agoFor me, it still doesn't get any better than http://robozzle.com/ http://robozzle.com/, but I have yet to try out Empire of Code.
- darkmighty 11y agoI had a lot of fun with http://codecombat.com http://codecombat.com , I'll check that out too.
- pbnjay 11y agoWhat's the point of "login with github" if you still ask for my email? Not interested...
- oduvan 11y agoDon't lose the best game ever just because of that :)
- kdamken 11y ago"Login to play" Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If you want people to play your game, forcing them to sign up first isn't the best way to do it. Let me try it out, then maybe say that you need to sign up to go past the first level or save your progress.
- anonymoushn 11y agoYou have to sign up so you can pay real money for virtual goods!
- devit 11y agoThis is just a crap game where you can pay real money to speed up progress, probably vaguely similar to Clash of Clans. Apparently the "innovation" is that you can solve simple programming problems (i.e. write algorithmic code that passes tests) instead of paying real money (not clear if it's only in some or all cases). Avoid.
- vdaniuk 11y ago>This is just a crap game where you can pay real money I can't find anything about in-game purchases. They also don't have a mobile version yet. What are your reasons to say all of this?
- anonymoushn 11y agoI played the game for a few minutes. I had the option of spending $99.99 to purchase a red lightning bolt thing.
- oduvan 11y agolucky guy! :) You should buy it no matter what ;)
- vdaniuk 11y agoHuh, $99.99 for the bolt thing? The company looks legit, they announce a partnership with Jetbrains on their blog, for example. http://www.checkio.org/blog/ http://www.checkio.org/blog/
- oduvan 11y agoDo you know some other places where you can buy BOLT for just $99.99 :)
- devit 11y agoLogin and start the game, then click on the "+" buttons on the upper right corner next to the amount of resources you have.
- anonymoushn 11y agoThis uses Python 3 without mentioning it, so it's easy to write correct Python 2.7 code and have it judged wrong.
- oduvan 11y agoAgree!
- panglott 11y agoJavaScript vs. Python, huh?
- siegecraft 11y agoI grow weary of all these "games for coders" because they end up just being algorithm optimization games. Why not a game where every week the API you code against changes in random, non-backwards-compatible ways and maybe you get advance warning and documentation and maybe you don't. And your code should randomly error or fail to deploy because some personnel are on vacation, or left to get new jobs and so on.
- gdc 11y agoCompletely fails to load in IE?
- dang 11y agoDiscussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10583954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10583954.
- swang 11y agoA bit off-tangent. Does anyone remember a really old game (probably pre-2000) where you are some dude stranded on a remote planet and you have these robots that you could code to do tasks (like mine, defend from alien attack?) I remember you are near your spaceship and you get a couple of the robots.