Elysian Shadows

OK then so here it is, this game if made would probably only be played by programmers.

Its sorta like what you get on those programming challenge websites but instead you have a game client and you have to code the solution(in a scripting language that the game uses) before anyone else winner well wins.

Haven't thought about this to much(clearly).

Sounds sort of like topcoder?

I guess. Except that you won't be using a web browser.

sounds like a really good idea. I wouldn't mind playing something like that.

This actually reminds me of a game my boss at work made at his previous job. Basically a world was created and food was randomly distributed throughout the world. The programmer's job was to write a bot to traverse the world and collect food. The programmer with the bot that collected the most food in X amount of cycles won.

cool I guess I'll play around with the idea some more.

So I've been thinking that you could make this idea apply to making games. Like you have a challenge to make pong(classic example) you have access to the objects(paddles, ball) but there is no game mechanics. What you gotta do is code it then at the end everyone playing votes for the best one.

Also there could be a plugin system so people can create there own challenges.

The voting thing, probably want to make it so people can't vote for themselves