While you may not be aware of it, the people who created and maintain CodeCombat are all independent game developers. We are all gamers who came together to create a game that we all wanted to play. We are a non-profit organization with no shareholders.
CodeCombat is a fully open-source, browser-based programming game that is developed and maintained by a small team of volunteers.
CodeCombat is a non-profit organization. It is developed and maintained by a small team of volunteers. We are located in California. We do not sell CodeCombat. If you want to support the game, you can support our team by donating to our organization through our website or by becoming a sustaining member.
We are committed to making our game and source code available to everyone.
The game is developed by a small team of game makers and engineers based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are committed to making CodeCombat available to everyone, and so we donât sell the game or the source code. If you like the game, please help support us by buying a copy of it!
We donât hide behind any paywalls or subscriptions.
Weâre a small team of game developers working on CodeCombat full time. We are based in New England and are all very involved in the community and local tech scene.
We donât operate as a traditional company.
At CodeCombat, weâre an employee-owned company. Each of our 35+ employees is a part owner of the company. Weâve been 100% employee-owned since our founding in 2012, and weâre one of just a handful of companies in the world with this model. Even our investors are all employees that work here.
We are all gamers.
CodeCombat is a game created by a single person, Brandon Wilson. He created it to help his children learn how to code, and now itâs helping millions of other kids around the world learn, too.
We are all friends.
Like most independent game studios, CodeCombat is a one-man shop. Iâm the sole employee working on the project right now, and Iâm the one who wrote the game engine. I created the gameâs proprietary technology and wrote the game and the documentation.
We believe in transparency.
CodeCombat is a venture-funded company (Seed funders: Trinity Ventures and Y Combinator). Weâre a remote team of 70+ staff working from 22 countries around the world. We donât have an office, and we donât set policy from a board room. We hire and fire team members and work on this project full-time.
Conclusion
You own the rights to CodeCombat. This means you own the software source code, the intellectual property rights to the game, and all other aspects of the project. You can do whatever you want with these assets, whether you want to sell it or develop new games using the same technology.