Couple months ago I discovered RTS game about programming creep units to make decisions instead of the player in the online world. 24/7.
BTW. Hello, this is my first post and it's kind of storytelling about part of my life.
I like to play games. A lot. Unfortunately, my weak dexterity and slow reflexes made me really low player when I needed to agressivly click on your keyboard and spam your mouse (tho I have enjoyed this). After years of wasting my programming skills down there, I came up with idea of botting games that I play, which gave me a lot of fun and opportunities for growth in my coding skills when I need to inject into some other process and change its memory on the fly to control character and work around my lack of "Being A True Player". The end of this kind of stuff was always the same, getting banned for something that between gamers is widely considered as cheating.
When I have discovered Screeps for the first time I was amazed. Game not only allowed me to play the game as I liked, but it forced every other player to do the same. The full strategic game, that gives you API to move your StarCraft-like units/buildings and runs your JavaScript code on its servers all time, from dusk to dawn. It's all about being the best smartass that does the best code and gets the best strategies done in low CPU and memory usage.
Since I'm playing for a while now, I decided to let my source code of Screeps be open to other players, which can be accessed here. There are also a couple of repositories that can be widely used as "helping tools" created by organization called Screepers, that I'm proud of belonging to.
As every game in an early stage, what this one needs most are the players! At this moment there are 1354 players that I have to fight with, which is way to easy to be on top of high score table! Take your chance and dig into the world of Screeps. I challenge you. One day you may win: "The world's first
MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers".
