Code Rivals: Robot Programming Battle

I was told to leave a review, so I'm gonna do that, even if it's a bit harsh. 1. Graphics: Really fine now, apart from quite a lot of placeholder text 2. Logic: This game teaches early on, what you should never do: Time-based operations. Right in the first levels you are expected to turn at a specific time interval, but instead of providing that you need to figure that out by yourself. This is an awful idea. Instead the user should be able to incorporate the sensor they just aquired to detect when to turn. 3. Handling: I think this game in many ways feels a bit sloppy. The camera moves to quickly, number inputs do not make clear how to type into them, only showing that you can enter values by dragging. I would not complain if this system behaved like in GMod, but here it's just weird. All in all, the newest changes are really promising! Price is really reasonable as well!

I found Code Rivals from the developer, Leandro, suggesting it to people who played Human Resource Machine, another programming game that I had played extensively to the point of speedrunning it, by offering keys. Considering that he stated in his post that HRM had inspired him and his game, I asked various questions about that subject matter as well his future plans of his game. I am aware that he would read this review, so I would be providing more feedback and questions with hopes that he reads it and thus responds in the perspective of taking to him. My biggest problem is how limited the scripting language could be, particularly in the connection between blocks (Nodes? Commands?) and their inputs and outputs; when you connect an output to an input, that output connector cannot be used for other things. To put this respective, if I want to write a branch that does two different things, like running another branch if true while unconditionally doing something else, I would have to create a duplicate of that branch in order to do something like that. Here’s an example of that problem in flowcharts that I made using diagrams.net, where there’s two problems that functions similarly. https://jumbosf.neocities.org/media/coderivials/coderivials1.png https://jumbosf.neocities.org/media/coderivials/coderivials1.svg Of course, I won’t mind that Leandro would keep this limitation in either of choice or limitations, as well I’m aware that everybody can address this example problem with functions (custom events) or organization (the first activation can be placed at the start and would hilariously eliminate the example problem completely), but this is just an example that I would like to show to demonstrate such a concept. After all, I would think this would help in reducing the amount of blocks and would be better helping people new to software programming and design. In addition, I keep noticing bugs with the blocks where I can’t place down the block or stop creating connections, which tends to fix itself once my mouse leaves the game’s environment, like pausing the game or switching windows. If you need a demonstration of these bugs, let me know and I would like to get around recording myself causing these bugs, but I cannot promise that I would be able to do that at all since they tend to happen at random. Then again, this could be fixed next week as Leandro had stated in his response to TBF. [quote=leandrro;3772364949839822699]lots of things i see in HRM that i dont see in other programming games make me change design, like use saves between levels etc,[/quote] Lastly in one of your answers, which I quoted above, I found this one quite vague, particularly in using “saves between levels.” In HRM and 7BH, you can save and load levels by copying their contents as text into your clipboard, which in turn you can paste into a text file to save it for later or to edit its contents and paste it back, but I could be reasonable and might think you never had use this feature before, or you had did and didn’t like how it was handled. Could you care to elaborate what you didn’t see in both games and how did you address it? That’s my review of the game so far, and I might check the game back and make corrections to my review as it improves, but I cannot make promises. Leandro, I wish you the best of the luck in making Code Rivals and I hope you can maintain a modest fanbase in the process!! If you wish to learn more about visual scripting languages, you can read this English Wikipedia article, and I recommend checking out Flowgorithm, a scripting tool that allows you to create code for multiple programming languages by using flowcharts, similar to your game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language http://flowgorithm.org/