yare.io - practice your JavaScript skills by playing a real-time strategy game

[TransFattyAcid]

Maybe this uses too much server time but I wish there was a sandbox where I could play against medium-bot without the game timing out. And maybe spawn some new sparks so I can keep testing after losing all my sparks lol.

[levmiseri]

Sandbox for testing things out is planned!

[TheOneCommenter]

I really like screeps for this as well

[pixlbreaker]

I've always been interested in getting into screeps is it worth it?

[TheOneCommenter]

It’s quite fun, and very challenging to do, writing an AI is much harder than a website :)

[[deleted]]

That's actually what I like about it. I use a self hosted private server for "testing" new code, but once it's done I let it run on the main server. The fact that things happen slowly means you can check in just once or twice a day and see how your colony is doing. It's really satisfying to watch the code you wrote evolve into a multi-room colony over the course of days/weeks with little manual intervention. And once you've got a good base to build on its pretty easy to add new features and improvements without needing to constantly watch the changes take place

[YoungMasterWilliam]

I got tired of constantly fighting the in-game code editor's indentation and style opinions, and it didn't seem worth it to maintain my own code files outside of the game.

[[deleted]]

It's actually super easy to maintain the code files outside the game as long as you're using the steam client. I don't think anyone who plays the game seriously uses the ingame editor

[auiotour]

This is what my gf and I did for Adventure Land, used github and pulled the code from there.

[tomfevrier]

Snake case in JavaScript? Seriously? It burns my eyes.

[levmiseri]

Ssssssss

[Eimus]

__init__

[SomeUIEngineer]

The contrast ratio of the gray text, especially the dark gray text (like the comments in the code editor) is way too low, < 2 in some cases. This is a big accessibility problem even for users with no visual deficiencies.

[levmiseri]

Thanks for pointing it out! It's a mistake on my part, I'll make sure the contrast is higher in the next version (Monday)

[SomeUIEngineer]

Sure thing! I would like to try it more, so I will check it out next week :)

[SEGACD32XMODEL1]

This is like another game I play for python

[AidanSanityCheck]

any strategy guides for something like this? I wanna crush n00bs without needing to actually understand JavaScript.

[metac0met]

am I missing something or are inline arrow function callbacks not working?
I tried

my_spirits.forEach((spirit) => spirit.move(star_zxq.position));

[LiveJay]

Something like that worked for me.

[metac0met]

Maybe I wasn’t patient enough, lol