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pbnjay
What's the point of "login with github" if you still ask for my email? Not interested...
oduvan
Don't lose the best game ever just because of that :)
kdamken
"Login to play"

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

If you want people to play your game, forcing them to sign up first isn't the best way to do it. Let me try it out, then maybe say that you need to sign up to go past the first level or save your progress.

anonymoushn
You have to sign up so you can pay real money for virtual goods!
devit
This is just a crap game where you can pay real money to speed up progress, probably vaguely similar to Clash of Clans.

Apparently the "innovation" is that you can solve simple programming problems (i.e. write algorithmic code that passes tests) instead of paying real money (not clear if it's only in some or all cases).

Avoid.

vdaniuk
>This is just a crap game where you can pay real money

I can't find anything about in-game purchases. They also don't have a mobile version yet. What are your reasons to say all of this?

anonymoushn
I played the game for a few minutes. I had the option of spending $99.99 to purchase a red lightning bolt thing.
oduvan
lucky guy! :) You should buy it no matter what ;)
vdaniuk
Huh, $99.99 for the bolt thing? The company looks legit, they announce a partnership with Jetbrains on their blog, for example.

http://www.checkio.org/blog/

oduvan
Do you know some other places where you can buy BOLT for just $99.99 :)
devit
Login and start the game, then click on the "+" buttons on the upper right corner next to the amount of resources you have.
oduvan
Not only, my friend :)

You you can make your building better solving puzzles, you can use standard algorithms in battle, but you can also write your own algorithms

or... wait for it... steal algorithms in battles...

anonymoushn
This uses Python 3 without mentioning it, so it's easy to write correct Python 2.7 code and have it judged wrong.
panglott
JavaScript vs. Python, huh?
siegecraft
I grow weary of all these "games for coders" because they end up just being algorithm optimization games. Why not a game where every week the API you code against changes in random, non-backwards-compatible ways and maybe you get advance warning and documentation and maybe you don't. And your code should randomly error or fail to deploy because some personnel are on vacation, or left to get new jobs and so on.
daveguy
They already included that feature! It uses Python 3!
geon
Sounds too much like work.
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gdc
Completely fails to load in IE?
swang
A bit off-tangent. Does anyone remember a really old game (probably pre-2000) where you are some dude stranded on a remote planet and you have these robots that you could code to do tasks (like mine, defend from alien attack?) I remember you are near your spaceship and you get a couple of the robots.