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Screeps programmable MMO RTS will go public on August 12

13 points by artchiv 11y ago

artchiv 11y ago
It has been in Early Preview stage for 2 months, and now the public release date is revealed.
phlandis 11y ago
This looks awesome.
- tgb 11y ago
  I backed the kickstarter and played with the early parts of the game for a while. It is pretty good! But it's hampered by mediocre development tools. I never figured out a good way to write code for it, even after they added github support and lots of nice features. With github, you'd have to commit everything you wanted to test, and getting screeps to notice the new commit was a hassle that I never mastered. No nice debugging tools either. They improved a lot since I started, though, so I'm not sure what the current state is like. I would love a recommendation of how to play this in a sane manner. But the game itself is very cool and you can do a lot without too much work. Definitely worth checking out.
  - artchiv 11y ago
    You can develop game scripts locally using Grunt task: http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203022512-Commiting-local-scripts-using-Grunt http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203022512-Commi...
  - Vendan 11y ago
    The code update stuff frustrated me too, so I wrote GoScreeps (https://github.com/andyleap/goscreeps https://github.com/andyleap/goscreeps). Handles uploading code changes, and will also do an initial download for you. Changes can be pushed by merely saving the file in your editor, as the tool sits and watches for file save events.
bluesnowmonkey 11y ago
Given that it has a single persistent world, I would expect the one best player to take over the entire game. I wonder how they counteract that. The best botting experiences I've had were in a tournament format. Initially you square off against opponents who you can teach your bot to beat using only very simple heuristics. Then you progress to opponents who require increasingly more sophisticated algorithms. It wouldn't be fun for novices to immediately face the best bot anyone has produced.
- artchiv 11y ago
  This is described here: http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203079471-Indiegogo-update-2015-02-19 http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203079471-Indie... You can't control the entire world, there are game mechanics to prevent this.

13 points by artchiv 11y ago

artchiv 11y ago

It has been in Early Preview stage for 2 months, and now the public release date is revealed.

phlandis 11y ago

This looks awesome.

tgb 11y ago
I backed the kickstarter and played with the early parts of the game for a while. It is pretty good! But it's hampered by mediocre development tools. I never figured out a good way to write code for it, even after they added github support and lots of nice features. With github, you'd have to commit everything you wanted to test, and getting screeps to notice the new commit was a hassle that I never mastered. No nice debugging tools either. They improved a lot since I started, though, so I'm not sure what the current state is like. I would love a recommendation of how to play this in a sane manner. But the game itself is very cool and you can do a lot without too much work. Definitely worth checking out.
- artchiv 11y ago
  You can develop game scripts locally using Grunt task: http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203022512-Commiting-local-scripts-using-Grunt http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203022512-Commi...
- Vendan 11y ago
  The code update stuff frustrated me too, so I wrote GoScreeps (https://github.com/andyleap/goscreeps https://github.com/andyleap/goscreeps). Handles uploading code changes, and will also do an initial download for you. Changes can be pushed by merely saving the file in your editor, as the tool sits and watches for file save events.

bluesnowmonkey 11y ago

Given that it has a single persistent world, I would expect the one best player to take over the entire game. I wonder how they counteract that. The best botting experiences I've had were in a tournament format. Initially you square off against opponents who you can teach your bot to beat using only very simple heuristics. Then you progress to opponents who require increasingly more sophisticated algorithms. It wouldn't be fun for novices to immediately face the best bot anyone has produced.

artchiv 11y ago
This is described here: http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203079471-Indiegogo-update-2015-02-19 http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203079471-Indie... You can't control the entire world, there are game mechanics to prevent this.