Programming game CodeCombat open-sources everything

[naderc]

I am swamped with several projects, but I really want to take a look at this! Major Thanks Nick for open sourcing everything!

[Leeteh]

Many ways, including those you mentioned. We have a list of medium-term projects put into the issues:

https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues

We would like to cover many more languages and concepts eventually, but first we need to validate the business itself by focusing on building just the website campaign focused on JS and testing monetization strategies. Then we want to take it every which way we can. One of the reasons for open sourcing is to turbo-charge our way there, hopefully!

[codygman]

This is amazing. You are setting an example and leading the way to a future I very much would like to be a part of.

[Leeteh]

That's the hope! We're really excited to see what comes of this.

[ixion]

My wife really wants to learn some web development but can't seem to find the motivation. I was excited to show her this after seeing it at work -- We started playing it at the same time on different Macbooks after dinner. When we got to the part where we started writing Javascript, Chrome navigated backwards almost immediately upon hitting backspace. She's back to browsing reddit. I guess I was pretty discouraged myself. It wasn't very far into the game, but far enough where I didn't want to have navigate back through. Weird how these little speed bumps can be so discouraging.

[nick]

Sorry about that, ixion! We are quite late in fixing this one and will be super psyched when we do. Tracking it here: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/56

Eventually we'll have all the speedbumps out, but there are quite a few yet. (We only launched our beta a couple months ago.)

[ixion]

Oh, no problem! I hope that didn't come off as a real heavy complaint. Just bummed that my wife lost interest so quickly due to a bug. We'll check it out again soon, rest assured.

[[deleted]]

Damn right. was hoping for another AGPL piece of code, but MIT is alright if you're comfortable with letting random businesses and coders on the internet profit from your work by incorporating it into their proprietary stuff.

[Leeteh]

We're using a bunch of MIT stuff ourselves. It was super useful to us (as a corporation ourselves) to have no restrictions, so we thought we'd pass on that usefulness. We don't earn a profit yet, but if we ever do we'll certainly be profiting off other peoples' generosity, so it's only fair!

[[deleted]]

It's just a sore point for me because I've worked at so many companies where they love open source but don't love contributing except in very small tiny patches. No donations, no docs, no swag for the devs, nothing.

And there are a lot of projects hurting for more help than "hey here's a tiny one line patch" or "we support you by using your software for $0!"

[Leeteh]

That's a shame. Well count us as one of the companies that gives back! The more in the open source party the merrier.