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Is that an intended aspect of the game, and how do you see it fitting in with the game's ecosystem?
Perhaps by corollary, will there be a significant open-source community built around the game; will there be open-source assets, but also the ability to contribute to those assets?
From Thomas's background in Chicago I predict the following firms as early customers:
http://www.spottradingllc.com/
It wasn't clear to me, but it sounded like the community might be able to contribute back to the core of the game, by improving tools/finding (unintentional) bugs etc. Is that an intended aspect of the game, and how do you see it fitting in with the game's ecosystem? Perhaps by corollary, will there be a significant open-source community built around the game; will there be open-source assets, but also the ability to…
It wasn't clear to me, but it sounded like the community might be able to contribute back to the core of the game, by improving tools/finding (unintentional) bugs etc. Is that an intended aspect of the game, and how do you see it fitting in with the game's ecosystem? Perhaps by corollary, will there be a significant open-source community built around the game; will there be open-source assets, but also the ability to…
I don't see us shipping much OSS at launch, but that's something I'd be willing to try in the future.
But then I got to the end of the email, and it turns out that it's the opposite :-) Guess it'll be playable just when it's back to the grind for me. But it does look incredibly interesting. And maybe having multiple separate things to do will make it easier to pick up after a bit of an absence; can just start on one of the other "tech trees" instead of having to redo old work to get up to speed.
does this support gcc-avr?
All of my test code was compiled with Crosspack AVR libc. The bundle has its own test code which was very useful.
It wasn't clear to me, but it sounded like the community might be able to contribute back to the core of the game, by improving tools/finding (unintentional) bugs etc. Is that an intended aspect of the game, and how do you see it fitting in with the game's ecosystem? Perhaps by corollary, will there be a significant open-source community built around the game; will there be open-source assets, but also the ability to…
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From previous coding games, it does seem common for people to publish solutions to github, but this is often tempered by a reluctance to allow 'script-kiddies' to solve the same problems without doing the work.
Hopefully the design of the games will make this kind of 'cheating' pointless, so sharing and collaborating on solutions is desirable.
If there is an on-line code editor involved at any point, I'm much more likely to publish to somewhere like github if that feature is baked in :) (also easy offline IDE integration is a bit simpler if git is baked in...)
I guess I my question was more targeted at this line:
"We’re giving players the dev kit for the handheld trading device. You can program it in AVR assembly. But the vendor also offers support for a very limited dialect of C, compiled to bytecode IR or to AVR. Emphasis on “limited”. You know, because we did less of the fun stuff for you."
This seems very much like a situation where the community can work together to improve their ability to play the game.
> At this point though we're just running (or in Erin's case skating) as fast as we can to launch the damn thing.
Please do :)