Posted on: November 22, 2018
TPReal
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Excellent programming game
I think this might be the most interesting programming game I've played. The programming language is interesting, challenging and often even frustrating, but for a programmer playing a programming game that's exactly what you might expect. Due to randomness (e.g. it's random which of the EXAs receives a transmission if multiple are listening), often best solutions are heuristic, and it seems impossible to invent an exact solution. Which means it's even more satisfying to find a better solution than the previous one. As opposed to TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O, the amount of code that a single processor can contain is unlimited, and it's even possible to add comments in code. It's just that if you have too much code in total, you will not show up on the histograms, but the task can still be solved - which is great news, especially for beginners. Most of the tasks are easy to solve, but difficult to improve to the level better than the 10th percentile, let alone top percentile. And the extra campaign - well, this one is harder, I haven't finished it yet. The story told by the game is, well, not bad, and I liked looking up information in the zines - it really has the '90 feeling to it. It's maybe too easy, usually you are told which article to read for information about a particular task, it would be maybe better not to state this so clearly, but rather let the player have the "I think I've read about this somewhere... aha! here it is" moment.
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