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That's\nright, the players learn to program while playing the game.\n\nAt least, that is the idea.\n\n* Playing the Game\n\n  If you are interested in playing the game, this site is built and\n  running at [[http://www.geeklet.org/veep][geeklet.org/veep]].\n\n* Building\n\n  I highly doubt that you'll be able to build this project... you see,\n  I'm really into /literate programming/, and this files are built\n  using [[http://www.orgmode.org][org-mode]] for Emacs. Each file either published as an HTML file\n  (in the =site= directory), or /tangled/ as a CoffeeScript file (into\n  =site/scripts=).\n\n  However, the =build.el= file can be used within Emacs to build all\n  of the files, and the =build.sh= script can be used to call Emacs\n  to do this work.\n\n  Yeah, highly specialized, I know, but it sure if sweet once you\n  drank this kool-aid.\n\n* Running\n\n  Once the files have been built, you can have any web server point to\n  the =site= directory, or you can use [[http://www.node.org][NodeJS]] to start up a simple web\n  server:\n\n#+BEGIN_SRC sh\nnpm install\nnode app.js\n#+END_SRC\n\n* Contributing\n\n  While the game is odd to build, the =.org= files are just text\n  files, so forking and updating is an option.\n\n  Feel free to play the game and send me feedback.\n\n* General Thoughts\n\n  Each mission will be clearly explained, but still allow the player\n  to /experiment/ and try out ideas.\n\n  To keep each screen terse, but still provide enough information\n  (some of which may include forgotten math), we'll have pop-up dialog\n  boxes with supplementary material.\n\n* Programming Notes\n\n  Each /mission/ has a *console* where robot instructions can be\n  entered and evaluated. 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