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Re:Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight by xiaoma on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:23PM (#5426163)
Wow. What are the odds! I just presented a game based on the exact same premise a couple of nights ago at a backbone.js meetup in SF. I wonder if the author of this one saw me...

http://www.meetup.com/Node-js-Serverside-Javascripters-Club-...

Here's the video I posted on youtube about it a few weeks ago: http://youtu.be/SZAOvn0EQxQ?t=4m26s

Game is here: http://logicmason.com/Roboduel/

Code here: http://github.com/logicmason/Roboduel

Fight Code is very much like my Robo Duel game, but much more polished and it looks the robots in it are programmed in JS, whereas I wrote a domain specific language (along with an interpreter) for mine.

Great job, guys. It's awesome to see a game like this. In fact I've wanted a game like this for years!

But it's hard not to wish it had come out a few weeks later after I graduated from Hack Reactor and had a chance to use my game to boost my job interviewing process!

Re:Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight by jeffcouturier on Sunday March 24, 2013 @04:52PM (#5433521)
I hope you don't let this stop you from making your game anyway. Even though Fight Code may have beaten you to it, your game would still be impressive to potential employers.