The Deadlock Empire
Games
educational puzzle game
SHOW HN2016
269points
30comments
#83of 2,264 in 2016
Top 4%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
9 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.50.
Idea: 3 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Fun and educational way to learn concurrency pitfalls
From 3 comments
This is awesome! I love this kind of games - they are very fun and educational at the same time. If you're like me, you might enjoy these as well: 1. Microcorruption -…
nbaksalyar on HNTook me about an hour to beat it, I'm still fairly new to concurrent programming so this was pretty great for showing me the pitfalls you can come across.
BackwardSpy on HN>Seems like you have to trick the threads in the correct sequence in order to introduce deadlocks This manually "trickery" you are introducing is you intentionally replicating…
brobinson on HN
Good for building paranoia about multithreaded code
From 1 comment
>Seems like you have to trick the threads in the correct sequence in order to introduce deadlocks This manually "trickery" you are introducing is you intentionally replicating…
brobinson on HN
Objections
Models only linearizable memory, not reorderings
From 1 comment
This is really cool! However, I was somewhat disappointed that it only models a linearizable memory (each low-level operation atomically acts on the same global state). It would…
ziedaniel1 on HN
Unclear overall context and goal of the game
From 1 comment
What language is this in? Never really tried anything like this before, but just went through the entire game and beat it. Seems like you have to trick the threads in the correct…
rajangdavis on HN
Requests
Add memory model and reordering support, e.g. write buffers and barriers
From 2 comments
This is really cool! However, I was somewhat disappointed that it only models a linearizable memory (each low-level operation atomically acts on the same global state). It would…
ziedaniel1 on HNYou could add a CPU write buffer or cache lines as an intermediate step between the code and memory, and allow the player to choose when those get flushed to memory, constrained…
JoshTriplett on HN
Show fixed code after solving each bug
From 1 comment
This is pretty nice, well done! One suggestion: it would be nice if you somehow integrated the fix for each bug into the game somehow. At the very least, in the congratulations…
jader201 on HN
Questions
What language is the game written in
From 1 comment
What language is this in? Never really tried anything like this before, but just went through the entire game and beat it. Seems like you have to trick the threads in the correct…
rajangdavis on HN
Alternatives named
Microcorruption
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I love this kind of games - they are very fun and educational at the same time. If you're like me, you might enjoy these as well: 1. Microcorruption -…
nbaksalyar on HN
Ruby Warrior
From 1 comment
Ruby Warrior is another great one. I had a lot of fun with it when I needed to learn Ruby for work. https://www.bloc.io/ruby-warrior
WillAbides on HN
Over the Wire
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I love this kind of games - they are very fun and educational at the same time. If you're like me, you might enjoy these as well: 1. Microcorruption -…
nbaksalyar on HN
Scalatron
From 1 comment
Scalatron is another great one https://scalatron.github.io/ "a free, open-source programming game in which bots, written in Scala, compete in a virtual arena for energy and…
moondowner on HN
Untrusted
From 1 comment
Continuing the theme of replying to this post with good examples of these kinds of game: https://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/ ("a user javascript adventure game")
cmpb on HN