Posted by tobi — 10:53 PM Oct 19
Cody, Daniel and I locked ourselves into the office one whole Saturday to compete in the last RailsDay competition with the objective to create a rails app in 24 hours.
We decided to do the obvious: a Ninja simulation which would allow you to duel other ninjas 24/7 including drafting of a training schedule, rare special moves, quest, exp, leveling and of course random killing sprees in the local village. They don’t mind.
120 checkins later ( choice checkin message: “Fixed the bug that would leave your ninja unconscious after meditating” ) we finished entry.
For some freaky reason however we received higest honors: 1st place in the Most Creative section!
On behalf of the team I would like to apologize to any sane person who was forced to try out Ninjistix by the committee duty. We accept the prize nonetheless!
UPDATE: Evan posted a great writeup of the winners
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Chris Carter 19 Oct 22:56
Congratulations!
Also, his name is Evan, not Eric :P
tobi 19 Oct 23:04
Thanks. I corrected that :)
werzel 19 Oct 23:16
when can we play?
Rowan 20 Oct 11:50
C’mon share the ninja love..that just looks too good not to share :)
tobi 20 Oct 13:12
Hmm, yea. We should install it somewhere so people can actually use it. What a concept.
Derek 20 Oct 14:20
I want to taste the ninja.
Dennis Theisen 20 Oct 16:44
Damn Tobi, I want to play! Gothic 3 is boring.
Stephen 20 Oct 16:46
Interesting. I find that Ninja’s taste like sweaty tabi boots and smell like Katon smoke bombs. Generally rather unpleasant, really. Not to mention, they’re not generally too hard to catch for proper cooking, so at best you might be able to manage a random lick… and let’s not even get into the reaction you’re likely to get when you just randomly lick a Ninja.
Eru 25 Oct 23:04
Is there anywhere we can play this game yet ? If its good enough for an award at railsconf, Im sure its good enough for us rails kiddies to play
Steve Smith 26 Oct 10:58
I too would like to play, what must be an excellent game.
Vote Yes for Ninjas 30 Oct 10:11
Please host this live somewhere so we can all play before I flip out and kill everybody.
Does it have wailing guitars?
Gaiden 30 Oct 20:48
I want to enslave humanity with my bare ninja hands. bow down before the shadowy master! i am a cool ninja. bwuahahahaha!!
oh wait, you say the servers still aren’t running? i can’t show ‘em the true meaning of ninja insidiousness?! come on, they’re just dealing with the last balancing issues that’s all, right? RIGHT?
Cody Fauser 31 Oct 10:34
We’re thinking of having another mini hack fest to get Ninjistix running. Then there will be Old Man and Peasant blood running through the streets!
Nerdy White Ninja 01 Nov 13:25
Did my ninja mask ride up over my eyes again, or is this still not live and playable?
crohno 09 Nov 13:27
hey please make open source the game so the new developers can learn from gurus like u… it will be helpfull =) anyway… can we play the ninja game?
Pew Pew Pew 09 Nov 18:36
ZOMG… I want to play the Ninja game.
However… My chinese gung fu game is clearly more effective than your japanese ninjitsu game.
Mike 09 Nov 19:58
I search and wait and search again… yet no playable Ninjistix to be found. The pain, the agony.