Introducing Competitive Multiplayer Programming (opens in new tab)

The Schemaverse (http://schemaverse.com) is massive multiplayer game that you play through programming, although the gameplay is no longer persistent and is now played in one day rounds. I would love to make a better persistent version one day but it needs a lot of hardware to support most users complete lack of optimization (or deliberate resource hogging attacks).

Schemaverse isn't nearly as polished as this is but if you are looking to battle some AI, give it a chance.

Hi dkhenry,

That would be a really fun game mode! It would require a lot of thinking about game mechanics and the technical challenges involved, but it's definitely possible, but probably not in the immediate future. I think if we implemented features like a resource system and figured out how to make the game performant, a persistent MMO would be really entertaining, something like coding the AI to a long-running Starcraft game.

Yeah, it's going to be awesome when we can do this: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Summer-Project...

It'll be hard, but not as hard as what we've already done with sandboxing and live-coding user programs, and it'll be truly epic.

As a programmer noob, this sounds really cool. Imagine instead of me trying to get more hats in Dota 2, I'm using that same time to instead learn more programming. My motivation would be on overdrive to fight against those who are infinitely better than me.

I'm not a kid anymore, but I want to act like one.

Then get people to pay for "gems" which "speed up" construction.

Then this turns into Clash of Clans. =)

That's a really valid concern, although we were surprised by how many of our users specifically requested this feature set.

Measuring your skills against others and peers could be a great deterrent for impostor syndrome.

Hi @Robadob, great suggestion, thanks for pointing this out! You can actually view the code for these functions in the Level Editor, but obviously it would be much more awesome to have a way to view them from inside the game. We have to strike a balance with the UI to make the learning curve less steep while at the same time providing a wide range of features. I'll bring this up and see what the rest of the team thinks.

(AISandbox was available for download at one time, but it appears they have since gone back into a semi-closed Alpha)

Thanks AUmrysh! If you use `this.getEnemies()` it will return an array of enemy objects, and each one of these objects has a `type` property.