Program your robot to escape the tests, drag and drop the instructions into the memory slots to give step-by-step instructions on what the robot should do. Get from start to finish while avoid being blown up by mines. There are 16 levels, see how much $$$ you can get before the end. Progressing through levels unlocks some more instructions and gives extra memory slots.
Tested and working in the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome (Although it should work on most older versions fine too). Doesn't work well at all in any version IE.
For the smoothest gameplay play it in Google Chrome.
Pretty good for 48 hours, but the levels didn't really seem tha tdifficult until the very last one. Not to complain, given your time constraints, but it would have been much more interesting if the puzzles went further than "turn this way, move x squares, that this way, move y squares, so forth and so on." And yeah, the music loop was pretty bad, nothing you can't fix by muting but even then what would be the point of including it at all. The graphics are pretty solid, though, and the interface ran quite smoothly.
I think the levels are too easy (it is possible to win with just advance and turn) except maybe 16.
My final score was 36725.
Some bugs I've found: Bugged on first load (control panel was in the middle of the screen!). Reload and was ok. Seem to precaculate when "play" is pressed resulting in a long delay for long sequences (even the music "freezes"). A mine did not explode on level 16 after the first one was destroyed by a laser.
A cool concept and a nice polished game. I didn't see any bugs here. :) I would suggest that as you introduce new instructions, that you immediately follow up with a level that requires the player to use that new feature. It's also possible to beat the game without using the laser command and the step forward command, though I'd love to see puzzles that require this!
A pretty good remake (I can't recall the name of the original game that did this mechanic), but I didn't feel like it added enough beyond that. I also didn't really have much desire to keep playing through the levels, I'm not sure why. You did an excellent job getting a bunch of levels in here and the overall design is great. Just didn't quite do it for me, though.
Karel (programming language) strikes back with vengeance and really, really annoying music. Good job for 48 hours, my only disappointment (apart the music which forced me to mute the sound) were the levels. Too easy and quickly boring. If you make a postcompo version with some interesting and devious levels I'd love to play it
Great game I must say! It reminds of those LEGO Mindstorms kits... The puzzles were nice! But one complaint... Sometimes the game would consume all my CPU for no apparent reason... And that was annoying (not to mention the loopy tones...). On a CRT monitor it is REALLY hard to read the tooltips. If you will improve this game, improve the tooltips readability. Keep up the good work!
Great concept! I really like the idea of programming a robot with instructions. If it the idea was fleshed out some more it would be a pretty awesome game.
The audio wasn't good though, especially the music, which was really annoying. Also, I didn't play all 16 levels, but the ten I did play seemed to only increase in instruction count rather than using any new instructions.
Very nice graphics - music is a bit annoying, but the game is really good. I'd kinda would like to know what were your influences: any games like this, or is it Logo after all? I'd really like to see this idea developed into something more difficult, as the puzzles were pretty easy. Other than that, this is a very good entry.
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Some of the upgrades and instructions are unnecessary because memory slots are plentiful. This tones down the difficulty and variation.
The music does get annoying quickly, I think this game could do better without it.
I think the levels are too easy (it is possible to win with just advance and turn) except maybe 16.
My final score was 36725.
Some bugs I've found:
Bugged on first load (control panel was in the middle of the screen!). Reload and was ok.
Seem to precaculate when "play" is pressed resulting in a long delay for long sequences (even the music "freezes").
A mine did not explode on level 16 after the first one was destroyed by a laser.
The audio wasn't good though, especially the music, which was really annoying. Also, I didn't play all 16 levels, but the ten I did play seemed to only increase in instruction count rather than using any new instructions.
I'd really like to see this idea developed into something more difficult, as the puzzles were pretty easy. Other than that, this is a very good entry.