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Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)

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Re: Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)

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During Covid, I've often wished I could reprogram the elevator of the apartment building I live in. The current rule is only 2 people can be in the elevator at a time. Problems that arise: * Elevator stopping frequently, but already at capacity, slowing down overall performance * Elevator always goes to bottom (or top) first to pick up passengers going up (or down). This means if your waiting on the ground floor and…

Fun fact: all of the above things are features that exist on elevator controllers. Most buildings just never have their elevators configured correctly.

Re: Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)

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One past discussion, plus a one-commenter: Elevator Saga: The Elevator Programming Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21425054 - Nov 2019 (1 comment) Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8929314 - Jan 2015 (104 comments)

And sadly it still has some unfixed bugs since 2015 where people don't consider the up/down indicators correctly, and will not enter the elevator even though the lights are on in the direction they want to go.

It uses the MIT license, and the git repo is here:

https://github.com/magwo/elevatorsaga

along with some pull requests which might fix those problems.

On the repo it says:

"For developers/contributors: This project is not actively maintained. The repo is used to serve github pages so I would like to keep it as is. Feel free to fork and host your own versions of Elevator Saga! But I would like to keep the domain name with the original version of the game."

I am sure someone on here has the chops to set up a clone of it.

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