Brainstuck

zachary-barbanell 2020-10-04 23:53

I can't figure out how to interact with this game.

nick-barrash 2020-10-04 23:55

Cool! More fun than I would have thought

binroot 2020-10-04 23:57

That was hard, but could even be an educational way to learn to code! Hint: set everything to 0 to get past the first level. Indeed https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Language_overview cheat sheet is essential.

phi9009 2020-10-05 00:03

Thanks, I hate it, but no seriously got me doing programming homework over here. Excellent work, I'm gonna imagine that was a pain to program. Still neat twist on the "stuck in a loop" concept. The only thing that I feel might help is that I was completely at a loss until I notice the controls when I moused over the pointer data. Pointing out that might make it easier to onboard people.

zachary-barbanell 2020-10-05 00:50

Quite cool, although as I mentioned before it was a bit difficult to figure out how the input works. I made it to this one before deciding I was done for now, I'm curious how close to the end this is:

+[[[-<+>]<<+>>]<<-[]>[->+<<++[<+<<<]>>>-[<<[<<<<<<]>>]>>]<]

tesseract 2020-10-05 01:47

@zachary-barbanell I'm glad you worked out how to play, thanks for the feedback. There are 2 more after that. You need to increase the speed quite a bit for that level; you can also find some hints in the source code (look for the `