"Programming" game

[Ravioli]

Are you logical enough?

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/lightbot

i had to use cheats on level 10 and 11, the rest was pretty easy.

 

[PvtRyan]

Fun game. Ironically, this is keeping me from some actual programming that I have to do.

EDIT: Recursion is fun.

 

[Lucid]

This is actually pretty fun.
Definitely a thinker.

 

[Unfocused]

I wish I could save the game, cause I'm stuck at level 11 and would like to get back to figuring it out later, without having to compelete the previous levels again :|

 

[Raziaar]

Fun game. Ironically, this is keeping me from some actual programming that I have to do.

EDIT: Recursion is fun.

How do you apply recursion in this? I see no way of breaking out of a function until it's complete... no other ways for it to determine when it's gone through everything, like foreach statements. And thus it just loops forever.

 

[PvtRyan]

How do you apply recursion in this? I see no way of breaking out of a function until it's complete... no other ways for it to determine when it's gone through everything, like foreach statements. And thus it just loops forever.

I didn't say it was useful, just said that it was fun

You can solve problems using it, it's just that there's no way to stop the recursion so he'll most likely put all the lights out again.

EDIT: Ugh, this game desperately needs two things:

- When you insert a command in the middle, it should move all existing ones one place further, rather than forcing you to rewrite it all.
- Fast-forward mode, level 11 is very slow.

 

[theotherguy]

Finally, something more frustrating than programming a real robot!

Actually, my experience with robots has been something like this:

Code: "Robot, go forward!"

Robot: "Yes, I will go in a circle!"

Code: "Damnit, I said forward! Calibration!"

Robot: "Okay, now I will go straight. Into this wall."

Code: "No! Stop!"

Robot: "Oops, can't hear you, I broke myself against the wall. Now I will restart randomly."

Code"****!!"

 

[PvtRyan]

Yay, finished. Level 12 was too easy compared to 10 and 11.

Finished with 213 commands btw, if that counts as a score.

 

[PvtRyan]

BTW, another robot programming "game" which is quite fun is Robocode:

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

It's basically just programming your own robot to fight other robots in the Java language.