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This is awesome. hey @schmatz since I see your reading this. See if you guys can figure out a way to make it persistent and Massively Multiplayer. I want to wri

by dkhenry 13y ago

This is awesome. hey @schmatz since I see your reading this. See if you guys can figure out a way to make it persistent and Massively Multiplayer. I want to write a program to defend my tower while I am at work, then hop on at night and tell my minions to attack someone else.

abstrct 13y ago
The Schemaverse (http://schemaverse.com http://schemaverse.com) is massive multiplayer game that you play through programming, although the gameplay is no longer persistent and is now played in one day rounds. I would love to make a better persistent version one day but it needs a lot of hardware to support most users complete lack of optimization (or deliberate resource hogging attacks). Schemaverse isn't nearly as polished as this is but if you are looking to battle some AI, give it a chance.
- TrainedMonkey 13y ago
  Why not hard limit amount of time people's algorithms can spend?
  - abstrct 13y ago
    At some point there is so much data available to work with that even nicely optimized queries become too slow. This may have also been a limitation of hardware but either way the game quickly became not fun when it was persistent.
nwinter 13y ago
Yeah, it's going to be awesome when we can do this: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project-Ideas-List#sandbox https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project... It'll be hard, but not as hard as what we've already done with sandboxing and live-coding user programs, and it'll be truly epic.
- toki5 13y ago
  Some of the things on that list actually sound like pretty cool challenges. I'm thinking about the mobile one, for example -- since the commands players use are limited to an API, could a drag-n-drop interface for that API work? Then the only things actually requiring typing would be function arguments.
schmatz 13y ago
Hi dkhenry, That would be a really fun game mode! It would require a lot of thinking about game mechanics and the technical challenges involved, but it's definitely possible, but probably not in the immediate future. I think if we implemented features like a resource system and figured out how to make the game performant, a persistent MMO would be really entertaining, something like coding the AI to a long-running Starcraft game.
mbesto 13y ago
As a programmer noob, this sounds really cool. Imagine instead of me trying to get more hats in Dota 2, I'm using that same time to instead learn more programming. My motivation would be on overdrive to fight against those who are infinitely better than me. I'm not a kid anymore, but I want to act like one.
darylteo 13y ago
Then get people to pay for "gems" which "speed up" construction. Then this turns into Clash of Clans. =)
- TrainedMonkey 13y ago
  Even better, restrict algorithms to certain amount of CPU time. If you want to do more advanced stuff you can buy more computational time per cycle.
  - schmatz 13y ago
    Haha if we wanted to get acquired by EA, I'm pretty sure that's a good strategy... "CodeCombat II: Dungeon Keeper" LOL

by dkhenry 13y ago

abstrct 13y ago

The Schemaverse (http://schemaverse.com http://schemaverse.com) is massive multiplayer game that you play through programming, although the gameplay is no longer persistent and is now played in one day rounds. I would love to make a better persistent version one day but it needs a lot of hardware to support most users complete lack of optimization (or deliberate resource hogging attacks). Schemaverse isn't nearly as polished as this is but if you are looking to battle some AI, give it a chance.

TrainedMonkey 13y ago
Why not hard limit amount of time people's algorithms can spend?
- abstrct 13y ago
  At some point there is so much data available to work with that even nicely optimized queries become too slow. This may have also been a limitation of hardware but either way the game quickly became not fun when it was persistent.

nwinter 13y ago

Yeah, it's going to be awesome when we can do this: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project-Ideas-List#sandbox https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project... It'll be hard, but not as hard as what we've already done with sandboxing and live-coding user programs, and it'll be truly epic.

toki5 13y ago
Some of the things on that list actually sound like pretty cool challenges. I'm thinking about the mobile one, for example -- since the commands players use are limited to an API, could a drag-n-drop interface for that API work? Then the only things actually requiring typing would be function arguments.

schmatz 13y ago

Hi dkhenry, That would be a really fun game mode! It would require a lot of thinking about game mechanics and the technical challenges involved, but it's definitely possible, but probably not in the immediate future. I think if we implemented features like a resource system and figured out how to make the game performant, a persistent MMO would be really entertaining, something like coding the AI to a long-running Starcraft game.

mbesto 13y ago

As a programmer noob, this sounds really cool. Imagine instead of me trying to get more hats in Dota 2, I'm using that same time to instead learn more programming. My motivation would be on overdrive to fight against those who are infinitely better than me. I'm not a kid anymore, but I want to act like one.

darylteo 13y ago

Then get people to pay for "gems" which "speed up" construction. Then this turns into Clash of Clans. =)

TrainedMonkey 13y ago
Even better, restrict algorithms to certain amount of CPU time. If you want to do more advanced stuff you can buy more computational time per cycle.
- schmatz 13y ago
  Haha if we wanted to get acquired by EA, I'm pretty sure that's a good strategy... "CodeCombat II: Dungeon Keeper" LOL