Screeps – An MMO strategy open world game for programmers

by oneloop • 11 years ago

39 15 11 years ago

This is a cool idea, but I can't imagine why you'd want to login via GitHub. They get read/write access to all your public and private repos.

fortytw23• 11 years ago

And all your organizations public/private repos? Not sure why it needs that.

Anyways, the game looks awesome, I've been playing with a similar idea for a while on and off.

RadioactiveMan• 11 years ago

It looks like you can commit code to the game by pointing it at a GitHub repository or other methods[1]. I couldn't find documentation on the GitHub integration but here's some people talking about it[2].

[1] http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203022512-Commi...

[2] http://support.screeps.com/hc/communities/public/questions/2...

thefreeman3• 11 years ago

You can also just create an account with an email address.

artchiv• 11 years ago

This authentication issue has been fixed already.

sctb• 11 years ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8599640

deutronium• 11 years ago

Although not really similar this reminded me of Core War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Anderkent• 11 years ago

Really needs tab completion in the editor :P

vyrotek• 11 years ago

Finally! It only took 5 years for someone to finally make it. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538171

thefreeman3• 11 years ago

Pretty fun. I did experience an EXTREMELY frustrating issue though. I tried multiple times to complete the simulation. However, you really need to hijack the back button or at least the backspace key. Hitting the backspace key without selecting the code editing window immediately navigates you away from the simulation and forces you to start the entire thing over. Extremely frustrating to say the least, and it prevented me from finishing it.

haack• 11 years ago

This is seriously awesome. Great for helping to understand programming conceptually as well as being great fun.

Less nice visuals would be good, then I could make it look like I'm just working.

Screeps – An MMO strategy open world game for programmers

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