A persistent multiplayer online programming game

http://gr1d.org

by josephcooney • 16 years ago

33 14 16 years ago

gr1d.org

harpastum• 16 years ago

The site appears to be down. Does anyone have a cache/description?

shib71• 16 years ago

This video is embedded on the home page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZ9-_EgisE.

"gr1d.org is a persistent multiplayer online programming game. Its inspired by games such as Robocode, Planetarion, various persistent online worlds and cyberpunk fiction.

"gr1d.org combines write-your-own code, persistent online world, cyberpunk-RPG, and multiplayer risk style domination and resource gathering together into a fun experience for programmers.

"As you gain levels, skills and experience, you can code more powerful agents to use these skills. You produce a fully-fledged class in the .NET ide of your choice, and upload it to the gr1d.

"While you're offline, your agents continue to run within the gr1d, looking for experience, resources and combat."

jqueryin• 16 years ago

It'd be nice to see this move to more of a language agnostic platform.

robertpateii2• 16 years ago

The site isn't actually down. I can load the pages, it just takes a minute or two. Give it time.

gr1d• 16 years ago

Obviously my EC2 isn't E enough. This should be improved by the time most read this update.

Mono seems to work great using mono develop on osx

troygoode• 16 years ago

Out of curiosity, how do you handle things like preventing an infinite loop from bringing down the server?

wlievens• 16 years ago

Maybe that's what's happening right now :-)

If I would build something like this, I'd go for an interpreter with a stack you manage yourself to handle infinite loops... using a timeout, not by solving the halting problem, random smartass!. But I over-engineer everything so don't trust me on that.

They probably use a timeout on the process too. Actually I would think using "dangerous" (i.e. filesystem) code is the real danger they'd have to defend against.

aphistic• 16 years ago

This looks amazing! I've been looking for a game like this for a long time. I hope it lives up to my expectations. :)

A persistent multiplayer online programming game

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