ScalaQuest: The Scala Adventure

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Interactive web game teaches Scala by combining a Phaser front end with a Play backend, using client-side regex for tiny micro-challenges and server-side compilation with unit tests for larger problems. Persistence uses Akka Persistence + DynamoDB and an event‑sourced per‑user actor model to store meaningful events only. Kickstarter funds the project, three playable levels exist and level four is in progress, a handcrafted ~3,000‑line JSON level spec is replaced by a few hundred lines of Scala, and an AWS Lambda compiler handles isolated, scalable JVM compilation.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:47Why Care
3. 3:40Flow
4. 5:10Story
5. 9:02Technical Challenges
6. 11:16Level Creation
7. 13:35Event Sourcing
8. 20:21Compile
9. 25:48Questions

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