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RoboRancher
RoboRancher
by 0x0539
Multipler RoboRally inspired board game. Race your bots in a fast paced, programming based, capture the flag race to victory!
Judging Instructions
- Be using chrome stable!
- Get another person to play with (seriously, it’s not fun by yourself!)
- To host a game, you only have to type in your name, and click “Host”. For joining a game, only type in a room key, and hit “Join”, you will be prompted for your name afterwards.
- After clicking host, send the link shown to the other player.
- Play Robo Rancher! Every player takes their turns together to set their robot’s instructions (registers). Then the round starts and your robots goo! All movement cards are relative to the direction the robot is facing (I know, it’s hard to tell).
- Capture the most flags to win!
more information available at http://roborancher.com/how-to-play
Who
munro — Portland, OR, USA
shadowarts — Michigan, USA
all-iver
capttwinky — Portland, Oregon!
How
NodeJS: Connect, and Socket.io
Browser: jQuery, Formalize.me, LESS, jQuery UI, jQuery Cookies, SpinJS
We used gimp, vim git, PixelMator, mogrify.
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ciaran_jjudge
chrismatthieujudgezgryw
contestantPretty fun to play, especially in multiplayer!
SteveStrezajudgeFun and challenging game. There were a few bugs with the game; several times I saw the values I put in the register change after my choices were locked in. When I ran the game in two tabs side by side, after a couple turns, the two instances had different screens. I had some difficulty determining which direction my bot was pointing. I thought the timing might be a bit slow, as well. But I definitely enjoyed playing the game and would love to play further with some bug fixes and UI touchups.
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therazorbladejudgeIt’s a bit tedious to play. Maybe add more steps to each round.
davidmoffitt
contestantI almost gave up at the host/join screen – that could have been far more clear. Even after clicking off and reading the instructions I didn’t quite follow how to ‘race’ – although with just me playing (not your fault of course) it felt more like a puzzle. I think some better persisting or pop-up on-screen instructions (and a simpler join/host process) would take this a long way.
aaronheckmannjudgeHard / unnatural way to race.
dethe
contestantLove the game (and the original), but found it very hard to tell which way robot was facing north/south, and sometimes it seemed to move at random. I think it could benefit from less pixellated graphics, too. Overall great, just details.
Fun little game, cute design smoothly implemented.
Worked exactly as advertised, might be useful as an introduction to programming for beginners (put me in mind of BigTrak!)