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Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO

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Re: Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

By which he means "Development on Starfighter's first game continues apace. It's, like every development project ever, slower than we expected it to be, and has involved some going down dead alleys as we explore how to make fun core game systems. We've got some of the core systems built and are firming up the other ones, and starting to build levels on top of them. We optimistically think folks will have a lot of fun…

You will perish in flames!

The dude abides

Re: Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO

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I do not like these types of posts when I can't actually see, try the product and it is kind of annoying since I kind of got hooked but will have to drop my email to some company that hopefully won't sell it to some ad company :(

Hi! CheckiO community manager here. We're about to begin sending invitations, just subscribe on empireofcode.com and you'll get your invitation really soon!

You responded to a complaint about the website providing insuffcient information about the game and simply asking for an email address... with no information about the game and a request for an email address.

I hope the game itself is more logical than this.

Re: Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO

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I love CheckIO and can't wait to play with this!

I'm an elementary school teacher, and this past semester I taught programming to 4th and 5th graders. We progressed through Code.org to independent Scratch projects to writing Python. Taking that last step from graphics to text/Scratch to Python was a hard one for the kids. I'd been thinking about using something like CodeCombat with them next year, but I'm excited to see if Empire of Code could be a viable option!

Re: Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO

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I know it doesn't matter but it strangely bothers me that the example code defines a function's keyword arguments as kawargs.

That is the standard python convention. https://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#how-can-i-pas...

That's not what they meant. They were referring to the typo: kawargs

Re: Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO

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post #10
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By which he means "Development on Starfighter's first game continues apace. It's, like every development project ever, slower than we expected it to be, and has involved some going down dead alleys as we explore how to make fun core game systems. We've got some of the core systems built and are firming up the other ones, and starting to build levels on top of them. We optimistically think folks will have a lot of fun…

You will perish in flames!

Thank you both for detailed and comprehensive answers.

Next reminder due in one month, context allowing :).

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