Code Conquerors

Code Conquerors is an innovative competitive programming simulation game inspired by the strategic planning and problem-solving aspects of competitive coding environments like Codeforces and TopCoder. In this simulation, players manage a team of coders, each represented as pawns, in real-time coding battles against AI teams.

This is still a WIP, so there’s no playable version yet!

Technical Features and Game Mechanics:

• Engine and Development Tools: Developed with the Godot Engine and integrated with git for version control, ensuring efficient management and iterative enhancements.
• Game Design: Features detailed management mechanics including team formation, strategy planning, and real-time decision-making.
• Testing and Balancing: Rigorously tested to balance the difficulty and ensure a realistic competitive environment that mimics actual programming contests.
• Visuals and Animation: Utilizes a unique “scribble boiling line” aesthetic that brings a dynamic and visually engaging look to the coding process.
• Audio Design: Incorporates dynamic sounds that enhance the atmosphere, with auditory cues that signal success, failure, and competitive tension.
• Simulation Mechanics: Includes an elo-based ranking system, real-time problem-solving simulation, and various coding steps like problem reading, solution planning, and coding.
• Interactive Challenges: Features interactive problem boards where players can drag and drop coders to tackle specific problems, with varying degrees of difficulty based on the problem’s and coder’s elo.
• Persistence and Progression: Offers a save/load system and an ongoing leaderboard that reflects the team’s performance over time.
• Dynamic Content: Includes a variety of problems, real-time standing updates, and interactive elements like ‘game juice’ notifications for solved problems.

Quality of Life Enhancements:

• Step Retry System: Allows coders to retry specific steps of problem-solving upon failure.
• Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment: Automatically adjusts the complexity of contests based on the team’s current performance, ensuring a challenging yet fair gameplay experience.

Gameplay Experience:

Step into the competitive world of Code Conquerors. Manage your team of skilled programmers through various stages of a coding contest, strategizing the best approaches to complex algorithmic problems.

• Real-Time Strategy and Management: Organize your team, assign problems based on coder’s strengths, and adjust strategies on the fly to outmaneuver competing teams.

• Elo Progression System: Watch your coders improve through each successfully solved problem, enhancing their abilities and your team’s overall ranking.
• Engaging Problem Solving: Each coder must navigate through reading, solving, and coding phases, with each phase offering unique challenges.
• Competitive Elements: Compete against AI-driven teams, observe real-time standings, and experience the thrill of climbing up the leaderboard.

Embark on this unique journey in Code Conquerors, where strategic management, real-time decision making, and problem-solving skills are key to dominating the world of competitive programming.