Screeps: World

Screeps is one of those games that you either throw your hands up and never touch it again. Or if you are a programmer like me, you get so addicted to it! I sometimes find myself up at 4AM so engrossed in making my little creep balls of joy move more efficiently, I had no idea the night passed away! This game is addictingly fun with a programmers heart in mind! I recommend it to my students learning about Object Oriented Design, and typescript. Amazing job! The live world is monopolized by some pretty smart/awesome bots. However, it does make it really hard to compete, especially when you are just starting out (even in the starter squares), and surrounded by scores of RCL 8s will million shot walls, and automated nukes. In this situation, it is almost impossible to advance to the same degree that some of these players did given the headstart. If I were to change one thing, would be a verification process or a economy,military analysis that maps you against similar GCL players only on the entire world. That way you can all grow together! Other than that, so much fun!

Too time consuming lol

WhoAmI: Backend dev ~8y, worked in Frontend too, extensive experience in Go, JS, Web development Positives ➕ Code-automated RTS? Sign me in ➕ Makes programming become a hobby again ➕ The idea is incredible. Code, conquer, compete. Negatives ➖ Inconsistencies in the API documentation (e.g. creep.store.getFreeCapacity() is not a function despite `store` being a `Store` object, why? What else is inconsistent?) ➖ Poorly implemented tutorials ➖ The game expects you to treat it first like an RTS with some artificial 'buttons' (procedures/functions) that you've made. But everything is done in such a way, that its incredibly tedious to do such thing. e.g. you've made a custom function to move your creep to a place? Every time you have to `require('toolbar').move('mycreepname', 'otherid')`. There's no integration between the code and the UI ➖ Few hours in and I realized that ... shoot ... code can literally run directly from a Github repo. That just makes bot-playing so much easier. I understand that the devs just wanted to integrate the game's ecosystem with a VCS, but it makes it several steps easier to install bot code. Nice idea, but leads to bad things ➖ I guess being thrown into the…

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Not the most efficient way to learn JavaScript, but it's a good playground and I'm obsessed over my little screep children