I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example. It'd be nice to have an earlier challenge with only a single elevator force you to have a more complex controller. With 4 elevators going at a time, it's harder for me to "debug" and figure out how to use the API.
Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
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#12This is awesome, however is there any way to get better syntax errors? Damnit Jim, I'm a C programmer not a Javascript coder!
Try looking in the dev tools? I've been able to debug a few runtime errors this way.
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#13I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example. It'd be nice to have an earlier challenge with only a single elevator force you to have a more complex controller. With 4 elevators going at a time, it's harder for me to "debug" and figure out how to use the API.
> I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example.
Strange, that strategy doesn't allow me to get past challenge 2 (just going to every floor one after the other).
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#14I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example. It'd be nice to have an earlier challenge with only a single elevator force you to have a more complex controller. With 4 elevators going at a time, it's harder for me to "debug" and figure out how to use the API.
> I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example. Strange, that strategy doesn't allow me to get past challenge 2 (just going to every floor one after the other).
Guess, I got lucky, haha. I should probably go back to challenge 2 and learn how to program these then.
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#15This is brilliant. Do you know of other games like this?
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#16This is brilliant. Do you know of other games like this?
Arguably https://www.bloc.io/ruby-warrior (warning: sound autoplays) - although there's something direct and storyless about the elevator one that I prefer.
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#17A project during my graduate work was to solve this problem. You can read my write up, which includes pseudo-code for the best algorithm I found[1].
Long story short: a simple, rules-based algorithm defeated my best efforts at having multiple elevators working together to coordinate their action.
[1]: https://clarkmoody.com/Moody_AgentBasedElevatorControl.pdf
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#18This is incredible. I've been successfully nerd-sniped away from work. Also nice touch w/ the time-scale factors being Fibonacci numbers :) Great work.
Likewise.
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#19I was horrendously worried this would be a parody of the incident with Rebecca Watson. I'm glad this is much more tasteful - looks really, really fun actually.
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#20In challenge 3, I got the following error:
There is a problem with your code: .init@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/app.js line 66 > eval:12:9 createWorldController/controller.start@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/world.js:185:13 app.startChallenge@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/app.js:175:9 @http://play.elevatorsaga.com/app.js:216:13 riot.observable/el.trigger@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/libs/riot.js:45:1 pop@http://play.elevatorsaga.com/libs/riot.js:89:31