Any suggestions for the language? The game and site are written in Python so that seemed most natural, plus it's a high-level language with a simple syntax. I could add more if people wanted though.
Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
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Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#12interesting! Question regarding the security restrictions - why disable built-ins such as `all`, `set`, `list`, `enumerate`, `min`, `sum`, `sorted`, etc?
To be honest I copied it from `safe_builtins` from RestrictedPython:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython
I realize this is annoying, and ideally I shouldn't even be doing this. It was just a quick hack for the version 1. I'll probably try to run user scripts in something like Docker. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#13Really cool idea! High five for you
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#14interesting! Question regarding the security restrictions - why disable built-ins such as `all`, `set`, `list`, `enumerate`, `min`, `sum`, `sorted`, etc?
To be honest I copied it from `safe_builtins` from RestrictedPython: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython I realize this is annoying, and ideally I shouldn't even be doing this. It was just a quick hack for the version 1. I'll probably try to run user scripts in something like Docker. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Yeah, this is honestly the most troublesome part. I really want to play with it though.
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#15Hey, I think something that would make the experience a lot better would be to incorporate Ace editor into it, so you get a very well-featured editor incase you don’t have easy access to a better-than- editor.
Thanks for the idea! Yeah, I'm thinking it would be ideal if eventually there could be some kind of IDE on the site with simulator and all (like on fightcodegame.com).
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#16Haven't had the chance to play around, but it looks clean and it's a nice concept.
Have you checked out https://www.hackerrank.com/ ? They initially started out with bot challenges as well.
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#17Brandon - what methods are you using to run untrusted Python code in a secure sandbox?
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#18Brandon - what methods are you using to run untrusted Python code in a secure sandbox?
Right now what I'm doing is:
1. search code for double underscores (to block magic methods)
2. replace `__builtins__` with a whitelisted version
3. hook `__import__` to only allow a whitelist
4. hook `getattr` to reject any key containing double underscores
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#19You need to say somewhere that:
python kit/run.py yourcode.py yourothercode.py map.py --render
is required to view the simulation. The "--render" argument doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on the site.
Re: Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players
#20This game is still pre-alpha. If anything breaks, please just post it here and I'll probably see it faster.
I get an IndexError exception when starting a challenge right now.