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Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by edwinjm » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight
fightcodegame.com

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by Jeremy1026 » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 4:42 PM UTC

This. Is. Awesome. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by RandallBrown » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

This is fantastic. It's super easy to use and understand (for a developer anyway). The only thing I could ask for is autocomplete so I wouldn't have to look at the API.

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Post by duked » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

It's really cool, I just would appreciate an alternative to github to login.

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by neovive » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

Very cool. Reminds me a bit of RoboCode that was created a while back from IBM DeveloperWorks (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/). This should be a fun way to practive JS.

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by jboggan » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

Nice. Watching a couple of the fights unfold makes me see a perimeter strategy is very effective against a tank in the middle.

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by sussman » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

Heck, this was my favorite game on the Apple IIe as a kid -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar. Glad to see it in-browser again!

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by Macsenour » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

As a programmer I think this is very cool. As a game guy, the field of play is too large given the size of the robot graphics. Make the tanks bigger and you have something much more suspenseful.

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by Zombieball » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

neovive wrote: post #5

Very cool. Reminds me a bit of RoboCode that was created a while back from IBM DeveloperWorks ( http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ ). This should be a fun way to practive JS.

Reminds? From a cursory glance this IS RoboCode, just using JS instead.

In my first year CPSC classes I had an awesome prof who made learning fun. Rather than program boring text based games like tic-tac-toe we instead learned Java with projects such as RoboCode && Env3d (http://env3d.org/beta/showcase).

Great to see RoboCode for JS now too!

Re: Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

neovive wrote: post #5

Very cool. Reminds me a bit of RoboCode that was created a while back from IBM DeveloperWorks ( http://robocode.sourceforge.net/ ). This should be a fun way to practive JS.

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