Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while?

Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by rudin on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:32AM (#1763281)

Loving the concept but maybe you should be charitable and make it free as it is really just a tutorial + triggers.

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by timruffles on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @05:39AM (#1763291)

I'd love to but I'm not really at a point in my life where I can do a whole project full time for fun :) Since it'd be cloud based (as you'd be doing things which would be dangerous to do on your home system, under time pressure) it'd have running costs, and I expect the security aspect to be tricky.

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by newsisan on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @06:27AM (#1763359)

Maybe user chooses how much they pay?

Don't write this on there, but have default at 20, minimum at 1/3/5/10 and obviously no maximum. I'd pay $5 if its good :)

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by souperhearo on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @06:53AM (#1763411)

What about using something like kickstarter to raise money?

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by timruffles on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @09:13AM (#1763746)

I wish I could, but Kickstarter is US only. The alternative, invested.in doesn't look that strong.

I think you're right that it's a model that would work well - if I could raise the money to code it I'd happily make it open source after that (running costs means it'd have to cost something to use on someone's server).

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by noctrine on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @10:14AM (#1763977)

What about IndieGoGo?

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by schelle on Thursday October 07, 2010 @05:47PM (#1769674)

I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but IndieGoGo has had a lot of successful non-US projects. Community is building every day, and the payment options (e.g. PayPal & direct credit card) are not US only. Check it out.

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by rick_2047 on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:03PM (#1764792)

I just wish there was something of non-US citizens (especially India) like kickstarter and with the strong community that kickstarter has

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by Yzupnick on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @11:52AM (#1764439)

Totally understandable, but $20 seems high for this kind of thing. For me at least...

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by shawndumas on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @08:24AM (#1763598)

Please don't make it free. "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."[1]

This is the kind of thing that will provide value if it's quick and focused. Ads would wreck it!

But do make it affordable though ;)

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[1]: http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by timruffles on Thursday October 07, 2010 @06:36AM (#1767407)

Okay thanks for all the suggestions re Crowdsourcing etc. I've just put up a page on http://www.indiegogo.com/Banzai-Bash to do exactly that.

Re free - if I raise the money to cover my living costs, I'll make the game open source. You'll easily be able to spin it up on a VM/cloud server (or your home comp if you're brave/foolish) for free! What's better, is that you'd be able to modify to teach your own language/project.

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Re:Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while? by ivanstojic on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @06:28AM (#1763361)

+1 because I feel what you are saying... but I'm with the OP on this one. Learning is free, being taught (even by a tutorial+triggers) is not.

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