Screeps Reviews and details

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• Show HN: Engineering Games (List)

  I've heard about Screeps which is close to what you describe: https://screeps.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Games like Stone Story RPG

  I have tried Screeps in the past, and I'm not a huge fan. I really like Stone Story, but they do not have an easy way to take your saves across multiple platforms -- you have to manually import/export your save. Source: 8 months ago

• Helping a young coder

  -For JavaScript, my advice would be to introduce coding games. That way it's more fun and the environment would be set up better (less worrying about deep technical errors). The two games that come to mind are Bitburner (free) and Screeps (free offline/paid online), though they both have their own learning curves and require actual coding; so for a 9 year old YMMV greatly. Source: 11 months ago

• SpaceTraders: A multiplayer game built on a free web API

  A good, existing example I'd like to show you is Screeps: https://screeps.com/ Personally, when I'm in the mindset of playing that game, I can't help but come back to my bot every 30 minutes to see if it's performing well. When I see that it's doing something strange, I take notes and can't stop thinking about possible solutions. When I'm not in the mood to play (i.e. Analyze the bot or program more... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• How to set up a corporate hackathon

  I organised a small team to develop a screeps bot. Other teams made their own basic, but amusing game or explored interesting technologies. A few teams even worked on things related to the business. Source: 12 months ago

• do you know any coding games similar to this one from Google?

  You might also look into screeps for yourself. I've not tried it (yet), but it looks like another where you have to write actual code. Source: about 1 year ago

• How would you design a free-for-all RTS battle that was persistent.

  Exactly! Maybe see how Screeps handles it, since players are programming the CPUs Https://screeps.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Reverse Horizon Zero Dawn

  Games that may fit are Screeps and Swarm (these are the two I know of, but there could be others in the same subgenre). The gameplay loop consists of you writing code to command your units who then go out to gather resources which you use to make better units and improve your base. Of course these types of games require you to do actual programming. Source: over 1 year ago

• What are good coding platforms to use for practicing coding? Other then code wars ?

  Https://screeps.com has been really interesting for me and definitely got me into coding. Source: over 1 year ago

• RTS programming game where you write real C++ code to control your player.

  This idea seems similar to screeps, robocode, battle-code, and to a lesser extent, Neural MMO. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why don't games allow you to automate some gameplay via programming?

  Most games don't allow you to script them because you wouldn't be playing them as intended, for better or worse. Secondly, if we're talking about games with a multiplayer element, it would allow you to gain an advantage against those players that play in the intended way (this group also being considered the target audience by the devs, again, for better or worse). On the other hand, people modify and script games... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Its like that

  I’ve been playing a bit of screeps in JavaScript lately. It’s a blast. Source: over 1 year ago

• .NET-compatible scripting languages for users to write their own scripts to query/manipulate objects/properties in the app

  JavaScript would be the way if you're willing to interface with it from your .NET codebase. Reading your original post, I first thought of https://screeps.com/ which uses sandboxed JS code to run your own programmed "creeps" (robots) as they do RTS tasks (mine energy, build buildings, build roads, fight invaders). I don't remember if the original game is open source, but just looking through their website, I now... Source: over 1 year ago

• Redesign Screeps in Rust

  I'm a fan of Screeps. I like this game and I think it's even a not bad 'tutorial' to Javascript. And just now I came up with the idea of rewriting it in Rust. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Any coding game accessible with Go?

  I found https://robocode.sourceforge.io/ in Java, https://screeps.com/ in JavaScript (WASM from Golang seems not to work), and https://leekwars.com/ had its own language…. Source: almost 2 years ago

• LeekWars, program your AI to destroy your leek enemies

  In screeps [1] you program your units in JavaScript, which opens the door to using Rust via WASM [2][3] 1: https://screeps.com/ 2: https://github.com/rustyscreeps/screeps-game-api/ 3: https://github.com/rustyscreeps/screeps-starter-rust. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?

  Screeps, the open source game for programmers. It’s really, really hard though. https://screeps.com/ Side note: I don’t think downvotes should be for comments you “don’t like” or even “disagree with”. Downvotes should be used to discourage people from posting bad content, but on HN we try to be a bit more objective about what “bad” is rather than “I don’t like it”. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• My school didn't have a IT teacher for us so I brought part of my lab and started a IT club. Any recomenations for projects?

  If you want to get some cross discipline work going on, there's a programming game called screeps. Normally you play on the official server, but they release the server code so you can run your own instead of requiring you play on the developer's servers. I'm not sure what it would take in the way of keys for people playing, you might need to message the devs to find out, but it would be pretty cool to have your... Source: about 2 years ago

• What are you up to today?

  I will probably spend some time working on my Screeps AI. . .fun little game for people who know JavaScript where you write an AI to manage your colony/creeps. Source: about 2 years ago

• Some tiny personal programs I've written

  Have you seen [screeps](https://screeps.com/)? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Friday off topic: do you play automation games like Factorio ?

  I can strongly recommend Screeps in a similar vein (https://screeps.com/) but it's literally writing code. I've never understood Factorio or Satisfactory, they just seem to be so pointless, where Screeps places you into a resources battle with your neighbours. Source: about 2 years ago