Show HN: Multiplayer Programming Game for Learning to Code

Hi HN, I’m one of the founders of CodeCombat and we’re looking for feedback from the community regarding our minimum viable product.

We started the site because I wanted to learn to code, and the existing sites/methods (Codecademy, CodeHS, Zed Shaw’s LPTHW, etc) never really clicked for me. I would try them for a while, but I always felt there was a motivation mismatch and would end up falling off the educational wagon. So we decided to put together a game that would teach people the basics of programming using game mechanics as our learning mechanism.

What we have right now is super basic, but we would be really interested to hear everyone’s thoughts about how best to improve. Thanks for checking it out, and we look forward to improving and turning the site into a learning powerhouse.

Can one restart a level but skip the help dialog?