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Break the Loop

By xedur

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD47Ever
Overall964.133294.796.4
Fun764.123196.097.2
Innovation374.253297.598.0
Theme74.623299.699.7
Graphics5473.853267.673.5
Humor3363.433174.978.1
Mood3363.832980.985.8

Comments

lenophie 2020-10-05 21:34 ♥ 1

dunno about the loop but it sure broke my brain, it's neat!

ninnec 2020-10-05 21:36 ♥ 1

Really great game! Very cool idea!

nbumgardner 2020-10-05 21:42 ♥ 1

As a programmer I like the premise, and the programming seems really robust for displaying the correct console output for wrong answers. The music fits in well to with that zen feel, and I got stuck at ​​level 3, but it was fun none the less.

rgilpt 2020-10-06 08:29 ♥ 1

@xedur From an Educator, really liked your concept, great work :)

keithswanger 2020-10-06 08:36 ♥ 1

Really interesting game! The learning curve is a bit sharp right now, but it could really turn into a great educational game! Great job.

josephdevelops 2020-10-06 08:41 ♥ 1

I loved this game. I was a bit burnt out on programming after Ludum Dare so I don't think I was the best player. I love the concept.

tricky-fat-cat 2020-10-06 09:00 ♥ 1

Great game about programming and loops. Nicely done.

ponywolf 2020-10-06 14:28 ♥ 1

That's great. A fun little introduction to Lua!

saering 2020-10-06 15:39 ♥ 1

Nice game! Just completed it, I wish there were more levels but the ones you've done were neat and had be think for a few minutes. I especially liked the one with the "Sub" function, I don't know exactly why I had trouble getting its point because I already knew "SubString" in C#, but that was fun to find out myself by trying things!

Really neat entry :)

hjalte 2020-10-06 15:52 ♥ 1

Super fun! I feel like this could be a great learning game :).

Maybe you could've included a comment for some things. I got stuck on the sub-method, because C# uses a start index and length, while yours seems to use a start and end index.

Either way, great game :).

pfs 2020-10-06 17:01 ♥ 1

I loved this game. Even made me search what sub in lua does :D We were also considering a similar game but weren't sure how many non-programmers would understand how it works :/

turegrappa 2020-10-07 15:33 ♥ 1

I love this game with programming lexicon. Good job πŸ˜„

paulhocker 2020-10-08 01:30 ♥ 1

i had to play this because my game had the same title. i really like the idea for a programming game and it was fun figure it out. nice job on the game.

raoz 2020-10-08 16:03 ♥ 1

That was fun, wish there were more levels πŸ˜„

jarvisp99 2020-10-08 16:07 ♥ 1

You should build these games for mobile.....Very good format for students to learn and play with programming.......Loved it...

fupi 2020-10-08 16:23 ♥ 1

This!!! Is!!! So!!! Cool!!! Reminds me of Baba Is You, but only the puzzle part. It's actually kinda impressive that the code runs correctly for every wrong combination of code possible. Even if I never used Lua before, it was easy to understand what the code did and how to break the loop (having the programming language's name in the game itself was a great touch), the difficulty and fun was trying to fumble around with the pieces. This is really solid, I loved it a lot!

fluffygamedev 2020-10-08 16:39 ♥ 1

Cute little game. The chill music is just perfect to solve the puzzles. I wish there had been more. But as you mentioned, making them was probably time consuming. ^^'

guimoliveira 2020-10-08 16:48 ♥ 1

Nice idea. More levels pleeease. :)

tomate-salat 2020-10-08 16:51 ♥ 1

Really cool game and it is really nice that the output matches the code. Was really fun to play! Please make some more levels :-)

madbeagle 2020-10-08 16:55 ♥ 1

Ah, I got as far as the 'while do, end' premise and couldn't think how to make that into a game, nice one! I recognise you from the Corona forums (nick sherman), I haven't really been over to the Solar forums much, mostly been doing C64 games for the last year! :D

wendel-scardua 2020-10-08 17:45 ♥ 1

Cool way to match the theme, there being even a "meta loop" from the last level back to the first :)

It just took me a few moments to get the `sub` function, but that's more a "me" problem; my first thought was substitution instead of substring because I use Ruby at work. Playing with the arguments and checking the output made easy to solve the level anyway (in hindsight I could've googled for lua docs πŸ˜…)

aligator 2020-10-08 17:48 ♥ 1

That's a really nice idea and implementation. This is definitely one of my favorites!

xedur 2020-10-08 18:10 ♥ 0

Thank you all for your feedback, it's been a delight reading them!

@madbeagle Hey Nick! It's been a while! You should really pop by the Solar2D forums/Discord. Things have been picking up quite a lot since the engine went fully open source and there's a lot of interesting stuff going on. :D

That invitation applies to everyone else too!

cliffracerx 2020-10-08 22:09 ♥ 1

Solid little programming game! Graphics were nice and retro, code easily readable, and the little wiggly snaps as you move blocks around were lovely. Music was low-intrusiveness and makes for a surprisingly zen atmosphere to debug to, and the little bleeps of success were nice.

Learning curve is definitely liable to be tricky if you've not spent years programming, but I had no trouble with it, and appreciated the meta-loop when you beat the last level. Great work!

kridotsuk 2020-10-11 10:56 ♥ 1

I really loved how you took the word loop and turned into the while(true) loop. Great puzzles! I just got stuck at level 3 :P

narom42 2020-10-22 18:03 ♥ 1

Nice game, made me think of baba is you :)