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HACKERMECH SHOWDOWN

INTENSE 1v1 MECH BATTLES IN TERMINAL, CODE YOUR WAY TO GLORY

Overview

HACKERMECH SHOWDOWN is a 1v1 in terminal game where the goal of the game is to defeat your opponent's mech in an epic fight to send them back to the scrapyard.

Each round, a few mech parts are selected out of a global pool of parts and made available to you. Your own mech is powered by your own strategical ingenuity and coding skills: You have ten minutes to write the JavaScript code that controls the actions of your mech.

Build

Our front-end terminal application is written in the only real dev language, Node.js, using the blessed library.

Our back-end is powered by--you guessed it: Node.js, along with express.js, docker, and mongoDB.

Credits

This project was built in less than 24 hours at the hackNY 13 hackathon at NYU.

Check out our github repo!

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Submitted to

Spring 2016 hackNY Student Hackathon

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as "the only real Dev language" is in fact, the Node.JS runtime environment or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Node+JS. Node is not a language unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning JavaScript runtime made useful by the JavaScript core syntax, parser utilities and vital language components comprising a full Dev language as defined by Alan Turing and his great descendant Steve Jobs.

Many computer users run a modified version of the Node runtime in their browsers every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of JavaScript which is widely used on servers today is often simply called "Node.JS" and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the JavaScript language, developed by Netscape. There really is a Node, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the Dev language they use.

Node is the runtime, the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the JavaScript commands that you run. The runtime is an essential part of a Dev language, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete Dev language. Node is used in combination with the JavaScript programming language: the whole system is basically JavaScript with Node added, or Node.JS. This so-called "only real Dev language" is really just a distribution of JavaScript.

Tim Hung
Computer Science and Mathematics at Binghamton University.
William Jagels
Node.js all day every day.
Andrew Chellis
Nikolas Vanderhoof
Taylor Foxhall
Alan Plotko
Software Engineer, Hackathon Enthusiast

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Tim Hung started this project — Apr 03, 2016 10:47 AM EDT

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