Code Rivals: Robot Programming Battle

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So I did some research into the best beginner to advanced level coding games, and Code Rivals kept popping up as the best starting point for absolute beginners. It has enough depth to take you pretty far, though it’s not quite the ‘top dog’ like Plasma is. The game provides the most basic Operators such as <, >, +, -, X, /, AND, OR and that is where it ends. It does NOT include operators such as trigonometry, =, >=, <=, NOT, NOR, NAND etc. A game in this same genre called Terranny here on Steam includes all of this and more. It's also much more polished. Maybe go check it out instead? Last update was September 2023. The game is abandoned so there will be no "AI Challenges - Coming Soon", as the main title screen suggests. I have to give it a thumbs down simply for the fact of abandonment and left in such a blatantly obvious abandoned state. Code Rivals needs a bit of QoL updates. It’s completely unpolished and the tutorial is surprisingly buggy (random camera snapping to the far reaches of the editor and losing zoom functionality were recurring issues when I decided to restart the tutorial from the beginning). The fact is, the entire game is full of bugs. Run code, watch bot, see…

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Game actually seems fun, but the UI needs some SERIOUS work, It was lacking any fine control or polish, tutorial had blatant typos and grammatical errors, dragging/moving disconnecting blocks is difficult to control based on where you need to click, and changing the resolution creates a significant offset with your cursor. When I first started the game, the offset was so bad I couldn't even click the first arrow to begin the tutorial without spending 5 to 10 minutes in the settings.

Maybe some people could have fun with it, but I dont, bc: 1. user interaction are not standart and unlogical. E.g. drag and drop is not up to date. I have to click drag and click again for dropping. More common is to drag while holding the mouse button and dropping by releasing the mouse button. I only can drag a connection in one direction, and it is even seeming wrongly: when "activating, I have to drag the connection from the target object not from the activation node. It should be working in both direction. 2. illogical flow. A gun has a single event action: "shoot", but to be able to shoot again, I have to "deactivte" the gu first and then "activate" for shooting again. Why? 3. the overall handling of the node editor is clunky, doesnt feel good.

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