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Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

55 points by edwinjm 14y ago

Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

jboggan 14y ago
Nice. Watching a couple of the fights unfold makes me see a perimeter strategy is very effective against a tank in the middle.
Jeremy1026 14y ago
This. Is. Awesome. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.
RandallBrown 14y ago
This is fantastic. It's super easy to use and understand (for a developer anyway). The only thing I could ask for is autocomplete so I wouldn't have to look at the API.
duked 14y ago
It's really cool, I just would appreciate an alternative to github to login.
neovive 14y ago
Very cool. Reminds me a bit of RoboCode that was created a while back from IBM DeveloperWorks (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ http://robocode.sourceforge.net/). This should be a fun way to practive JS.
- Zombieball 14y ago
  Reminds? From a cursory glance this IS RoboCode, just using JS instead. In my first year CPSC classes I had an awesome prof who made learning fun. Rather than program boring text based games like tic-tac-toe we instead learned Java with projects such as RoboCode && Env3d (http://env3d.org/beta/showcase http://env3d.org/beta/showcase). Great to see RoboCode for JS now too!
  - dncrane 14y ago
    Looks like it's not exactly the same, e.g. robocode had a separate scanner and turret, while fightcode has the cannon act as the scanner.
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sussman 14y ago
Heck, this was my favorite game on the Apple IIe as a kid -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar. Glad to see it in-browser again!
Macsenour 14y ago
As a programmer I think this is very cool. As a game guy, the field of play is too large given the size of the robot graphics. Make the tanks bigger and you have something much more suspenseful.
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jsdalton 14y ago
That was fun! I wonder if it's just me, but I could never tell who the winner was after a fight?
brian_wendt 14y ago
And found new addiction
xiaoma 14y ago
Wow. What are the odds! I just presented a game based on the exact same premise a couple of nights ago at a backbone.js meetup in SF. I wonder if the author of this one saw me... http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-Serverside-Javascripters-Club-SF/events/101940222/confirm/ http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-Serverside-Javascripters-Club-... Here's the video I posted on youtube about it a few weeks ago: http://youtu.be/SZAOvn0EQxQ?t=4m26s http://youtu.be/SZAOvn0EQxQ?t=4m26s Game is here: http://logicmason.com/Roboduel/ http://logicmason.com/Roboduel/ Code here: http://github.com/logicmason/Roboduel http://github.com/logicmason/Roboduel Fight Code is very much like my Robo Duel game, but much more polished and it looks the robots in it are programmed in JS, whereas I wrote a domain specific language (along with an interpreter) for mine. Great job, guys. It's awesome to see a game like this. In fact I've wanted a game like this for years! But it's hard not to wish it had come out a few weeks later after I graduated from Hack Reactor and had a chance to use my game to boost my job interviewing process!
- jeffcouturier 14y ago
  I hope you don't let this stop you from making your game anyway. Even though Fight Code may have beaten you to it, your game would still be impressive to potential employers.
jellyrobo 14y ago
I love this stuff. Programmers at my office had a Robocode melee competition that ran every week for a month. Grand prize was an extra vacation day. It was so much fun I started working on a JS version thinking it would be a good learning tool for JavaScript. I dropped the idea about a year ago but now I want to pick that back up again. Here's an example view of where I left off. The battling javascript even had a function for taunting and responding to hits. http://www.jellyrobotics.com/2013/01/16/code-wars/ http://www.jellyrobotics.com/2013/01/16/code-wars/
leishulang 14y ago
beat me to it: www.codeduel.com I am making the FPS version though. Nice job!

55 points by edwinjm 14y ago

Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

Nice. Watching a couple of the fights unfold makes me see a perimeter strategy is very effective against a tank in the middle.

Jeremy1026 14y ago

This. Is. Awesome. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

RandallBrown 14y ago

This is fantastic. It's super easy to use and understand (for a developer anyway). The only thing I could ask for is autocomplete so I wouldn't have to look at the API.

duked 14y ago

It's really cool, I just would appreciate an alternative to github to login.

neovive 14y ago

Very cool. Reminds me a bit of RoboCode that was created a while back from IBM DeveloperWorks (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ http://robocode.sourceforge.net/). This should be a fun way to practive JS.

Zombieball 14y ago
Reminds? From a cursory glance this IS RoboCode, just using JS instead. In my first year CPSC classes I had an awesome prof who made learning fun. Rather than program boring text based games like tic-tac-toe we instead learned Java with projects such as RoboCode && Env3d (http://env3d.org/beta/showcase http://env3d.org/beta/showcase). Great to see RoboCode for JS now too!
- dncrane 14y ago
  Looks like it's not exactly the same, e.g. robocode had a separate scanner and turret, while fightcode has the cannon act as the scanner.
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sussman 14y ago

Heck, this was my favorite game on the Apple IIe as a kid -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar. Glad to see it in-browser again!

Macsenour 14y ago

As a programmer I think this is very cool. As a game guy, the field of play is too large given the size of the robot graphics. Make the tanks bigger and you have something much more suspenseful.

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jsdalton 14y ago

That was fun! I wonder if it's just me, but I could never tell who the winner was after a fight?

brian_wendt 14y ago

And found new addiction

xiaoma 14y ago

Wow. What are the odds! I just presented a game based on the exact same premise a couple of nights ago at a backbone.js meetup in SF. I wonder if the author of this one saw me... http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-Serverside-Javascripters-Club-SF/events/101940222/confirm/ http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-Serverside-Javascripters-Club-... Here's the video I posted on youtube about it a few weeks ago: http://youtu.be/SZAOvn0EQxQ?t=4m26s http://youtu.be/SZAOvn0EQxQ?t=4m26s Game is here: http://logicmason.com/Roboduel/ http://logicmason.com/Roboduel/ Code here: http://github.com/logicmason/Roboduel http://github.com/logicmason/Roboduel Fight Code is very much like my Robo Duel game, but much more polished and it looks the robots in it are programmed in JS, whereas I wrote a domain specific language (along with an interpreter) for mine. Great job, guys. It's awesome to see a game like this. In fact I've wanted a game like this for years! But it's hard not to wish it had come out a few weeks later after I graduated from Hack Reactor and had a chance to use my game to boost my job interviewing process!

jeffcouturier 14y ago
I hope you don't let this stop you from making your game anyway. Even though Fight Code may have beaten you to it, your game would still be impressive to potential employers.

jellyrobo 14y ago

I love this stuff. Programmers at my office had a Robocode melee competition that ran every week for a month. Grand prize was an extra vacation day. It was so much fun I started working on a JS version thinking it would be a good learning tool for JavaScript. I dropped the idea about a year ago but now I want to pick that back up again. Here's an example view of where I left off. The battling javascript even had a function for taunting and responding to hits. http://www.jellyrobotics.com/2013/01/16/code-wars/ http://www.jellyrobotics.com/2013/01/16/code-wars/

leishulang 14y ago

beat me to it: www.codeduel.com I am making the FPS version though. Nice job!