Robo Instructus

If you know what Dijkstra's algorithm is, you are probably the targeted public for this game. With this leetcode type of programming puzzles, I tend to prefer puzzle with an aesthetic about them: simple problem statement with an elegant solution that is hard to find and thus satisfactory to discover. In this game, I got none of that: I need to think about boring corner cases, do "if" statement for all the ways to go right from a triangle to another one and keep track of the orientation. --> WHY TRIANGLES?! WHAT'S WRONG WITH SQUARES?! The concept is nice, but the choice of puzzle lacks taste IMO. Maybe check out exapunks or turing complete instead.

Really good game for learning how basic code works. Not exactly a game I would plunk a kid who has zero idea how to code in front of but it is good for people who have, at minimum, elementary knowledge of coding and wants to build on that. People with zero idea of coding might find the game a little frustrating, especially since it is not "point and click" but you have to actually type. Tab shall become your favorite hot key. However, it's from the fact that coding itself can be confusing, the dev has done a very remarkable job trying to make everything as easy-to-understand as possible. The dev did a really good job explaining all the different parts of code, such as "loop" and "else if". I really like it! You don't have to know code prior to understand. I already know how to code but even I appreciate how simplistic it is. I like the fact the code can be slowed down line to line so you can see *exactly* where the code went wrong. The game has helpful guides but no hints so if you're stuck, it is you who will have to figure it out. The art is wonderful, though it would be nice if you could see little dots or something to see how many sub-levels there are on any given level.

I like this game a lot, but I think the most important thing to know about this game is that as opposed to most other games of the genre (at least ones I encountered) this feels much more like a programming game for *programmers*. So I would recommend it to only one of two possible audiences: 1. Experienced programmers who are looking for fun and engaging challenges 2. Beginners who are *highly* motivated and are looking to learn what real programming can be like, with many of its (essential) nuts and bolts You'll have a more fun and engaging experience the closer you are to being in one of the above two categories. Otherwise you will likely find this frustrating and perhaps even say to yourself at some point "This feels like homework! Not a game". The reason is that this game is very open ended, as opposed to, for example, Zachtronics games (which are great in their own way), the main challenge doesn't come from artificial limitations of space, lines of code, etc. that the game imposes on you to give you that fun puzzle experience albeit within very well defined borders for the solution space. Apart from some API limitation that the game imposes on you from time to time (e.g. "Some function X is not available in this level") most of the challenge here comes from your own ability to concoct the right algorithm and express it in code (the syntax is highly reminiscent of Python), that can be of any length, to solve the given challenges. This game is unique and I like it a lot, precisely because it is well suited to a small audience that I happen to be a part of. Thank you for making it, and I hope you keep maintaining it and taking it forward.

very good programming/puzzle game.

Would recommend the game if you like programming puzzles and already have some programming background. Although the game includes some written tutorials on how the commands work, the puzzles get brutal pretty fast. For some statistics, at the time of writing only 6% (!!!) of players have completed act 2 (out of 3). The in-game programming language is nice to work with, and the game even includes auto-complete, which is a boon. My biggest complaint so far is the lack of search function, which makes it sometimes frustrating to rename variables and functions. Also the auto-complete is somewhat bugged and doesn't always work inside functions or when handling sequences.

great game for understanding basics and application, however the information gathered between levels is very minimal compared to the skill jump between them. coding is about function and refinement, but each level requires more and more code until you gain enough knowledge and experience to redo the levels later with shorter code. except that certain functions are not available early on so you might not be able to use functions or created functions either at some points. the new information as well is incredibly under explained, the examples are crude at best with no outlying information surrounding them to examine or explain either. understanding what is available to do and what wont work is trial and error unless you've already been coding forever and a day. sequence referencing is difficult because you have to create a function to specifically reference it and one of the methods shown to do so is incredibly confusing because there are no "var"s or 'seq" that show where the used terms come from, or why they are there. I'm absolutely new to this type of stuff, so it is very difficult to understand what is going on at any given point. deffinitely a fun game, but it needs to explain it's concepts better than it does.

When you get to level 5 or 6, you cant go to level 7 nor to the next levels. The game is not developed properly nor tested enough. Wasted my money