groundjet 2023-01-09 21:17
Pretty good programing game, pretty tough to learn but that's programing games for you, given the time it is amazing, I wish it had more instructions, specially regarding the `STATE` part of every `INSTRUCTION`.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Crop METI
By seshoumara
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 4.00 | 6 | ||
| Fun | 4.00 | 6 | ||
| Innovation | 4.50 | 6 | ||
| Theme | 3.62 | 6 | ||
| Graphics | 3.00 | 6 | ||
| Audio | 3.66 | 5 | ||
| Humor | 2.33 | 5 | ||
| Mood | 3.83 | 5 |
Pretty good programing game, pretty tough to learn but that's programing games for you, given the time it is amazing, I wish it had more instructions, specially regarding the `STATE` part of every `INSTRUCTION`.
@groundjet One way to think of states is gears on a bicycle, just more abstract. Say you have an instruction like 'C12LD'. Even if the probe sees plant 1, if it's not in the specified gear / current state 'C' it won't do anything (skip instruction). Another ex. is say you want to change same plant/soil differently based on situation. You couldn't with one state (which does the same change), but you can switch to another state when you see it and let that do the other change :D (pro tip) I hope that helps.
The music is nice. I like the concept. It seems fleshed out. It'd be cool to see it published somewhere like Steam. I bet it would do well in some crowds! Good work!
Hold on a minute, I just spent 72 hours programming! Ah, I guess several more can't hurt
An educational game to teach aliens how to program Turing machines themed on Earth's harvest. Love it! Fun puzzles and plenty of levels. I would suggest a way to speed up the execution though.
it'd be interesting if there were levels where the same program has to work for multiple test cases
Thank you everyone for playing the game. @merin-car-trunk-key I guess it's too niche for Steam, because of the abstract language. @judjudson You didn't program anything like this though :D @lzxh Will do, not sure when though. @duncan-3 This is my second programming-game on LD, 2/2, and in each there was just no time left to implement validation tests and UI for it. So hardcoding makes it too easy.
Nice little programming game. I liked the backstory of being an alien spaceprobe drawing crop circles. It would be fun to see patterns drawn on a 2d field, I think your programming system would extend pretty naturally.
@kaliuresis Thanks. A 2D field is on my mind, with the move including up and down too, but kept it off the jam to make it in time. Currently it's less about drawing and more about small input changes. In addition 2D would actually unlock drawing if the field is big enough, but I'd need to put more than 6 states. Thanks for playing. I wanted to try yours but I'm on Linux using Godot.
Very interesting game. I love programming, I have ejoyed it!
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