Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery
Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
If you find yourself editing text at the Linux command prompt, you've probably either used nano, which is simplest, or the more powerful but difficult-to-master Vim. In Vim, for example, even moving the cursor up, down, left, and right is less than straightforward. How about an ice cream-themed game to teach you all the "Vim motions" (keyboard shortcuts) you need to become a master?
London-based developer and designer Marcus Michaels has created Vim Scoops, a simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript game that lives in a web browser to help users learn them. As an ice cream truck trying to make the most efficient deliveries to customers as possible, players use Vim motions to dart around the screen and try to meet par on each level.
The very first one, for example, has three people on the map,...
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