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We hit a few last minute technical issues, so the game will not launch publicly until Saturday afternoon (Chicago time).

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It is a bit weird to me that you want starfighters to be a recruitment platform but think it's 'Fun' when somebody releases recording of the solution.

> "I recorded a speedrun of level 5, clearly labeled as a speedrun of level 5, which spoils the twist midway through level 5." -- Fun

> We're OK with you publishing facts about Starfighter games/levels but don't want people to be exposed to intentionally hidden facts (discovery of which is, in many cases, the point of the level) unless they go looking for them.

I am asking because I sometimes record or stream myself playing CTFs and I first thought I couldn't do that with starfighter... But I can do it as long as I label it properly and this would not be frowned upon?

I understand that you cannot stop people from leaking and spoiling challenges. But I definitely want to be obedient with your vision.

Really looking forward to this! Thank you for your work

We want people to be able to experience Stockfighter like a fun game. Part of the expected, baseline of experience for games in 2015 is that you can play them socially, either a) with your friends or b) with your cast-of-thousands watching you play them.

We're thus OK with folks streaming our games. (And, ooh, thanks for reminding me to put up that policy note for the platform IP reviewers.)

We'd appreciate folks trying to not spoil folks who aren't looking for spoilers. I'm not too worried about folks being able to find solutions if they turn over the Internet for them; I'd just prefer that they not be pervasively available.

As to whether this causes us issues as a recruitment platform: don't worry about our business model. That's my job. You can search HN for "patio11 stockfighter cheating" if you want to hear a little elaboration on why I am not too worried about this.

Given the whole point of streaming, as a watcher, is to share the streamers experience, I can't see this being a problem based on my interpretation of the docs, especially if you stream in good faith rather than just showing a slideshow of spoilers!

This of course comes with the caveat that I'm not part of Starfighter, it's simply my interpretation of what they've said.

Man, I got so excited after I ran the following.

  $ curl 'https://api.stockfighter.io/ob/api/heartbeat'
  {"ok":true,"error":""}

I presume you'd like us to layoff testing your servers for a bit ;)?

If you can crash the venue API, which is written in golang, with pre-auth requests I've got bigger problems than your load testing.

Darn it!

I signed up for MicroCorruption a while ago, but never even did the first level until reading the posts about Starfighter here reminded me of it. And I'm hooked - I've done some reverse engineering and exploit work before for fun, and I'd forgotten how much fun it is doing crackme type challenges.

I'm really looking forward to the Jailbreak arc of Starfighter, and also trying my hand at the stockmarket one (despite my knowledge of markets coming exclusively from the summary in your team's blog posts...). Best of luck with your launch!

Just to clarify, you don't have any problem with people posting API clients (etc) on Github?

We have no problems with OSS API clients. (I've mentioned previously, but given that it is 2015, I'd expect most developers given the task "Do something with a novel API" to immediately start looking for the OSS client rather than sending in raw HTTP requests.) Our community has several of them ready to go: https://discuss.starfighters.io/t/helpful-external-tools/136

The more the merrier!

We'd prefer if folks exercised discretion with regards to posting solutions; many of our players find the existence of them anywhere demotivating.

All the Really Good Hackers are now heads-down writing ridiculously fast, OSS-but-completely-incomprehensible clients in Erlaskelleron that will be unbeatable for performance, ease of use, and phoning home trading strategies.

I knew I'd read it somewhere, but just wanted to check anyway.

Not finished yet but: https://github.com/vertis/stockfighter-trading-api-ruby

Edit: And I can't post to that thread since I don't have an account yet (client based on the documentation) ;)

Please send me an email. I will give you a invite code to the beta, which will let you create an account to put your client up on the forum thread. (HNers who did not already spend a metric truckload of time writing clients: give us until tomorrow afternoon, please.)

Did so, but will happily wait as well :)

Edit Again: Is actually finished now, to the extent I can do without an actual account.

I started writing one in Go: https://github.com/ianberinger/stockfighter

Here's another one :-)

https://github.com/donovanhide/stockfighter

Based on the docs and only tested against the unauthenticated endpoints so far...

Looks nice!

It seems to be encouraged:

"We have per-level leaderboards which give people a meaningful number to golf on, and additionally, we have discretion to (automatically or after human review) award additional badges for going above-and-beyond on a level. We’ll also do that outside of levels, too — I can imagine issuing badges for people who, e.g., write OSS clients for our API, submit documentation patches, responsibly report security issues, etc." - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-s...

Been waiting all week for this to come out. I love doing wargames, and have been looking forward to trying out stockfighter for a long time now after reading through all your posts.

Hope you manage to sort out the problems.

Have you got some one-liner examples of what the challenges will be?

I made an account and couldn't find anything other than the API documentation.

http://i.imgur.com/SCU1k0S.jpg

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