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on the level with repetitive actions i cant seem to get all the spaces lit up. it says to reuse the actions but there isnt enough boxes. yes i know this is a Useless review but i wanna know. very neat game
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Great game
Love the concept - very straightforward - you drop 2 points because I feel the game could have involved some more actions beyond move and activate but still a very enjoyable puzzler.
would be interested in a more advanced version , perhaps involving coordinating multiple robots...
Good, but I do miss a few things
I really, really, really liked the innovative idea behind this game. However as I consider myself a programmer (think C++. Java, Javascript, and php amongst other languages), I think the game was lacking some things and was somewhat misrepresenting at other times. I know it may not have been your goal to represent programming in a game type of form, but I guess that is how people probably see this.
I am missing:
(1) control structures (if, loops ed). You are not programming if you're not doing any control structures - and there most definitely are ways of making loops simple enough for this game.
(2) a way to 'insert' statements. A programmer - more than anyone else - is reliant on the ability of computers to let you write a line between line 4 and line 5, but here one can only overwrite
Furthermore there is one point which is seriously misrepresenting programming: the limited space. The way the space is set up and divided into three functions (one of which is main) has a lot of downsides: first of all you are removing one of the properties of programming: "every problem has multiple solutions - not all are equally simple (for the programmer to make) or fast (for the computer to run)." Secondly, this system makes people look for 'unnatural' functions, functions which are not present because they make sense, but just because a pattern in the 'code' was repeated a number of times and would thus help decrease the code size if put in a function.
Anyway, even though my criticism might make one believe otherwise, I did really like the game - it was a bit easy and short though (oh yeah, that's for me only - not for the majority of the people. I would love to see a longer part where it would get harder than this, but I do see that that is not possible in the way the game is right now). So, still a big thumbs up for you!
Great Game
This was a good game, sort of frustrating sometimes though. The second to last level was the hardest, imo.
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yea knew that java might pay off some day. great game. would love to see more levels! make another!