MMO for programmers

[Guest MrE]

I was sent this by a colleague this morning, I thought it was a fun idea and wanted to share in case anyone else thought this could be good fun

 

it will air Nov. 20th!

 

Source: http://www.screeps.com/

 

[kennethnakasone]

Looks interesting! I hope the tutorial's easy to learn, because I have no idea what the commands at the bottom of the screen are doing

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Also, thanks for sharing.

[Ren]

This uses Javascript though..

[Guest MrE]

Looks interesting! I hope the tutorial's easy to learn, because I have no idea what the commands at the bottom of the screen are doing

EDIT:

Also, thanks for sharing.

It says its aimed to be easy to learn, but hard to master. You can always give it a go once it launches - and I bet you can post in this programming section for help if need be

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This uses Javascript though..

What is the problem with that? JS is a nice language, I admit not my absolute favourite, but I do enjoy coding it in when doing the odd node project here and there.

[Agent181]

time to learn javascript

[laxer]

Looks interesting however I am sure in the long run someone will just write a few common goto scripts and people will end up copy pasting a lot of commands or setting up a bunch of macros.

 

While I do see the potential I don't think it will get too far.

[Nineshadow]

This uses Javascript though..

Javascript is easy to learn.

[Opcode]

This uses Javascript though..

No big deal Javascript is a solid language, not to mention extremely fast (most of your web content is powered by Javascript).

[LePawel]

Looks like a game with needlessly long commands to do basic things, even as a programmer I find it pointless.

[wolfsinner]

Need more info to form an opinion, but it sure is an interesting idea. Will keep it under my radar.

[rockking1379]

mbam blocked the screeps website...not looking good to me

[Mo5]

Just in time to get on Codecademy to learn JS