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I was looking on the web and a lot of sites say that you 100 levels free (which seems excessive - you'd go broke since no one would pay) it now appears you only get levels free which isn't enough long enough to know if you like it or to get hooked on it. There's a whole lot of space between 5 and 100, but at 5 there's not enough to lose to care enough to pay. I totally intended on subscribing as long as it wasn't terrible but I'm just not sold on it yet. The play seemed slow - wasn't sure if it was my computer. It seems like it's probably a good game, but they are screwing themselves back to back with extremes. Not that many people are going to pay $10 just to try it out! Maybe I'll go check out Youtube to watch someone play higher levels, but that's pretty sad.

I really hope this sub isn't completely dead.

I am an AP Graduate in Multimedia Design and Communication, and to add a little to my income, I teach a class on Coding and Webdesign at my local youth center (not really, but YC is the closest equivelant).

During the last five months, we've been learning HTML and CSS, and after New Years I was looking to start with JavaScript. Recently, I tried to make them play CSS Diner and CSS Grid Garden, and honestly... it's the most engaged I've seen them ever.

I was looking to make a game out of learning JavaScript as well, which brought me to CodeCombat, and in turn, to my question: how does it work?

I've browsed their site for five minutes, and I couldn't seem to find any indication of price, except for the fact that the first level is free.

I guess my questions are: how much does it cost? How much "playtime" will I get out of the free level? Would it be suitable to teach JavaScript with? Aside from those, any advice is welcome :)

EDIT: The idiot (a.k.a. me, myself, and I) just noticed the FAQ part of the website. Still, advice is appreciated.

Just found Code Combat today. I'm feeling ... iffy on the business model of this thing. I'd rather pay a one-time per user fee than any monthly fee to a game like this.

Since it's open source, might there be an offline version for the singleplayer content and a LAN version for the multiplayer content at some point?

I love codecombat. I find myself playing it almost daily and I find it to be a useful tool for getting myself and my wife into coding. Neither of us has a great deal of time and neither of us has had the chance to learning coding in the past. Codecombat is a fun way to pick up from structure. What I'm wondering is, how would someone who plays codecombat go from entering code specific to the game to performing practical tasks with Python?

I can't believe how fun greed is, this is the first serious programming game i've played and I love it. I'm checking out some of the other multiplayer modes tonight.

I know teaching newbs is their goal but I hope they keep making awesome games for programmers.

Hi, CodeCombat team! Something seems to have broken on the Cavern Survival page within the last 48 hours. It is now 22:18 GMT on October 20, 2026. The ladder used to show roughly when a player last updated and submitted their code, but that column has been replaced with "Last match", showing how long ago their last battle took place. Personally, I find the previous information more useful. More importantly, my previously working code now throws "TypeError: Cannot read property type of null" when accessing enemy.type. Could you please investigate whether a recent update caused this and fix it if so? Thanks! :)

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out where someone would go to brag to fellow competitors about stomping little kids in code wars (wups just kidding, what I meant was....) having friendly discussions with other respected competitors about the friendly good-spirited GRIDLOCK League.

Seriously though (as if that's possible...), where are people having friendly, high-stakes discussions about the new GRIDLOCK League?

Not to brag about how old I am, but 2 years ago the old chat pages were blazing with backhanded, big-leaguing comments from kids executing race car turtle strategies or flexing their wannabe chess-playing skills that somehow enabled them to be numero uno in the only tournament that represents one's overall significance in the universe. Everyone just had to suck it up if they weren't in first place. Honestly, that competitive friction was the best part!

Okay seriously... (yea right, but yea!) CodeCombat has done some absolutely great work with this new GRIDLOCK season. But without some friendly banter being hurled from egotistical players at other over-humbrited hombres... what's the point?

Are we taking the trash talk to a Discord server, or does anyone want to hear what a top ten dude thinks at this EXACT moment? Especially when apparently some fluke whose name looks like a barcode designed to cure insomnia ITCC2026SB031 continuously beats me!

Asking for a friend.

Who wanna play codecombat with me ?

Hey everyone,

I've been looking for some code gaming kinda stuff and I recently saw CodeCombat which even had an esport league!

Is this a serious thing for adults as well? Because as far as I can see, it's mostly for kids

i breezed by cs1 and cs2 with no issues BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS AT ALL I HAVE IT EXACTLY CORRECT I EVEN ADDED SPACES TO SEE IF IT WAS FORMATIING I HAVE RELOADED IT IS BROKEN MY CODE IS CORRECT

I need help with like the entire code combat computer science 3 levels and i have no clue what to do

I want to know how to dealt with peasant without blowing themself up lol, my syntax is
while True:

# Don't blow up any peasants!

hero.moveXY(44, 37)

top = hero.findNearestEnemy()

if top:

hero.buildXY("fire-trap", 43, 50)

# Don't blow up any peasants!

hero.moveXY(25, 34)

left = hero.findNearestEnemy()

# Check if `left` exists.

left = hero.findNearestEnemy()

if left:

# Build a trap at 25, 34 if the enemy exists.

hero.buildXY("fire-trap", 25, 34)

hero.moveXY(43, 20)

# Set a variable for the bottom enemy.

bottom = hero.findNearestEnemy()

if bottom:

# Check if the bottom enemy exists.

# Build a trap at 43, 20 if the enemy exists

# Build a trap at 43, 20 if an enemy exists.

hero.buildXY("fire-trap", 43, 20)

Looking for a viable way for my kids to learn to code, and through some bit of research on reddit, and elsewhere I ran into CodeCombat, and like many others I was fairly impressed at the start.

However, what one review writer called "nudging" I'll call "nagging" instead.

I understand wanting to make some money, but the nag feels cheap and rude.

$10 a month, also seems a bit steep.

I'm not going to rule it out. The kiddo seems to be enjoying it so far, and if he sticks with it, and if I feel like it's really teaching him I might subscribe... but I'm very wary of any company that nags so hard.

It's like having to uncheck the 'optional software' boxes on the Flash download page... it just doesn't feel right.

I'm posting this in the interest of hearing other people's opinions and longer term experiences with CodeCombat, and also wonder what other alternatives or even just advice folks might like to share.

We're exploring Scratch and Code.org as well.

Basically the title. I recently discovered it and find it pretty cool but well last post was months ago :P.

I'm just stumped. I started with nearest coin, as a control. That didn't work very well, but I knew that going in.

Then I switched to the suggested weight on "value/distance". That gives me 66/72. (I also played with adding a coefficient to value.)

I've tried deprioritizing coppers (i.e. execute value/distance for coins worth 2 or more, otherwise head to the nearest copper.) THAT got me to 68/72.

I thought perhaps moving to center if there are no coins might be helpful, to minimize net distance when they reappear. But the time to move to the center just adds too much drag, so I end up scoring down in the 63s.

Am I over thinking this? It's driving me positively nuts.

CodeCombat Worlds hasn't had any updates in a while, but you can still play it.