Show HN: Yare 2 – Programmable RTS game

Thanks for creating this. I have found it pretty impenetrable though, i&#x27;ve spent a good few minutes trying to get some of the bots to harvest, but they never seem to move.<p>It feels like it could do with a bit of over the shoulder user testing.<p>After a while the game does get canceled which may be the root cause of the issue?

Looks pretty cool in idea, but the game has crashed every time I&#x27;ve tried to play it. I&#x27;ve also noticed that a lot of my energy keeps getting into negative values ( which look like a overflow to me).<p>I&#x27;m a big fan of 1v1 strategy games like this. but it needs more than 1 unit and 1 structure (I think). - otherwise it&#x27;s just a matter of who attacks first and who has further to travel.<p>What&#x27;s meant to be the balance of the races? triangles seemed to have more units than squares, for instance.. do they travel faster?

I have no clue what im doing.<p>Like.. none. I made some energy triangles move, and then the game was &quot;cancelled&quot;.<p>Oh well.

One of the best intro videos I&#x27;ve seen. Great pacing and music. Will try to steal some essence of it when I attempt mine.

so like... screeps?<p>is there a comparison somewhere?

I keep getting the &quot;Game Canceled&quot; error.

Any reason as to why this is not open source? (I&#x27;m not saying, everyone should make everything OS, just interested to understand your reasoning behind the decision?)

やれやれだぜ

a very different take on programmable rts is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colobot.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;colobot.info&#x2F;</a> (perhaps <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Colobot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Colobot</a> is a better introduction)<p>this is a very old game that has seen an open source release (including free assets) somewhat recently.<p>the original game is fully playable on modern platforms; lately some multiplayer features were added that look quite a bit of fun.<p>this is an early-noughties 3d rts, with the twist that all units (including the enemy, though this is obscured during normal gameplay) run user-editable code that can be changed in-game.<p>the rts campaign is supplemented by exercises designed to introduce complete beginners to programming (e.g. write a maze solver or a waypoint-driver flight controller).<p>the genius is, in my opinion, in that the affordances and fidelity of the simulation is such that controlling e.g. a flying flighter is <i>fun</i> and accessible.<p>do give it a go -- perhaps with your kids.

I hate making a not entirely on-topic posts, but most game submissions take you to a link that starts the game. I guess that helps get players by minimizing steps needed to be taken to start.<p>I&#x27;m curious what the game&#x27;s like, but I&#x27;m reading while eating or doing waiting for something at work and I&#x27;m not in a good position to play the game. As it is I&#x27;ll probably skip it and forget to come back later.<p>Having a website with some screenshots and explanation would be awesome.

I could not get anything to work with M+K, none of the RTS controls I am used to worked. Left-click select, right-click move did not work. Left-click select, left-click move did not work. Select with control (no click+drag?) selected stuff but I could not get the units to do anything.<p>I gave up.<p>Would strongly advise the author not to break from convention here.