Screeps, your project to learn how to code.
/Screeps is a programmer’s sandbox MMO.
It’s a good answer to someone’s need to have an actual project to learn how to program. The default language is JavaScript. As far as I can tell you will have to use JS playing on the official shards. There are ways to mod your own instance of a Screeps shard to use some other languages if you’d like. For me learning programming logic and design structure is more important than the language I play in.
“Screeps means “scripting creeps.” It’s an open-source sandbox MMO RTS game for programmers, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units’ AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operate 24/7 in the single persistent real-time world filled by other players on par with you. ”
Tutorial 1
Game UI and Basic Scripting
I originally purchased Screeps on Steam (currently $15). I check in on the web or I can launch an instance to call and run everything locally.
On October 11th they announced the release of a free shard. Essentially making a shard that is an even playing field for everyone, with or without a subscription.
I will make a completed tutorial post after I go through it again this week. I have been through this intro before but I have not grown very much in game past what the tutorial teaches.
If this looks like your cup of tea, or coffee, then give it a try.
Let me know if you start, where you start, and how you’re doing. Maybe we will start working together, the sum of our parts, something something.
Here’s my Screeps profile if you want to check out my live progress:
https://screeps.com/a/#!/profile/nate_kp
This is my GitHub repository I will be using to run my account:
https://github.com/kodikopoiiti/screeps_kp
“First, we’re happy to announce that the free non-subscription CPU limit is raised from 10 to 20. Yay! And now is the most interesting part. Shard3 becomes our first CPU-limited shard. It limits CPU of all players to 20. Even if you have an active subscription and assigned more CPU to this shard, only 20 CPU will be active there. This means this shard is mostly designed for non-subscription players. They can now compete with all their neighbors on equal terms (CPU-wise), whether they are subscribed or not.
In all other aspects, shard3 is a regular shard with Novice and Respawn Areas and portals from shard2 (temporary closed for 60 days). You can freely travel there, but your CPU will be capped, so having a subscription will force you to learn how to optimize your creeps in the same way as non-subscribed players do.
And the last thing: since you get twice as much CPU now when you buy Screeps on Steam, the free 30-day subscription trial is discontinued. We recommend new players to start on shard3 and buy a subscription if they want to expand to other shards.”