The big-data start-up Umbel has a gaming challenge called “Umbelmania,” in which amateur and professional coders fight a series of opponents in a first-person fighter-style game—but they are coding the movements
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Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
SCMS School of Technology and Management
Kerala, India.
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Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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3. UMBEL
• The big-data start-up
Umbel has a gaming
challenge called
“Umbelmania,” in
which amateur and
professional coders
fight a series of
opponents in a first-
person fighter-style
game—but they are
coding the movements
4.
5. UMBEL
• And just like any
online game you
would play, you can
win points within the
game.
6. UMBEL
• But, those points
aren’t meaningless;
they factor into how
far you can advance
into an interviewing
process with the
company.
7.
8. UMBEL
• Amateurs who may not
have known just how
solid their coding skills
are can see how they
match up against
opponents, and then
might see that they are
in fact best suited for a
job at the startup.
