Screeps: World
“Screeps” is a wordplay for “scripts” and “creeps.” It is an MMO RTS game for programmers in an open persistent shared world. Each player uses JavaScript (or compilers of other languages into JavaScript) to…
Screeps: World is an indie developed by Screeps, released 16 November 2016 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Screeps: World is
Screeps: World is an indie game developed by Screeps and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
“Screeps” is a wordplay for “scripts” and “creeps.” It is an MMO RTS game for programmers in an open persistent shared world. Each player uses JavaScript (or compilers of other languages into JavaScript) to write AI of his or her colony of units (“creeps”) which live and operate in real time even while the player is offline. The game world is generated procedurally and consists of rooms. Players compete for controlling these rooms by mining resources, developing infrastructure, and commanding armies. Screeps can also be called a sandbox game for programmers since it has no definite goals. Instead, it offers players a fully programmable game world, means to interact with each other within…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Screeps: World launched on 16 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2 and The Last Guardian.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2, The Last Guardian.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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