Play as Emily, a young and hopeful graduate of magic studying the ancient magic of the golem. No one thinks you can make golems do more than just smash monsters, but with the magical python runes, you are sure you can make them do all of your chores for you!
This is a programming game. You can use the python engine in game to program your golem, Tobor, to do your chores for you. But you can only fit so much code on one sheet of paper. Can you make one script scroll do everything? In 86 lines? Without syntax highlighting? You will be mad, you will be furious! But no matter what you do, you will run out of space.
@bismark Thank you! I wish I could have gotten in some nice tools, like syntax highlighting, but at least you can copy and paste into an external editor! lol
You have a lot of things going on in the game, Emily is from magic school but she programs hehe :smile: That will score humor for me haha. Anyway, the programming of the golem - I think you did a good job, but the input for user is a bit user-unfriendly, I think you are aware of that too. Idk if there is a perfect solution for programming in games, but text is probably the last thing to do, you want to hide away the code by abstracting it with colors and shapes, etc. Regarding the rest of the game, I like the design, although I find the terrain texture could be better. The stone texture needs more tiling so it looks smaller, now it looks like a giant floor tile. The changes in texture is a bit abrupt, like from stone to grass to dirts. Maybe you can make that more smooth. Otherwise I think it is a very nice game and Im all rooting for programming in game!!
@ryanjavanshir haha I don't think Im capable of that. But yeah regarding the programming in game, I thought of that too and I have an idea a long ago that I never had a chance to implement, but you can tell me how it sounds. So instead of letting the players build the whole program from scratch, I will make the algorithm with lots of parameters, and players' job is to tune those parameters to make it work. Can think of that as a simple reinforcement learning algorithm for example..
@ryanjavanshir That sounds fun. At my old job we used evolutionary algorithms to alter parameters for creature generation (check out Darwin's Demons on steam) and that would be somewhat similar. It could be interesting if a game was built around exploring that possibility space.
Really cool concept and it's very impressive how much was done in the time you had! A punchcard based system would have been cool too! Thanks for sharing your game with my stream awhile back. Your game was played around 3:05 into this vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297885983
Animations had to be sacrificed because of time restrains i gues but they graphics look great.
Good job,i enjoyed picking up trash and run away from rats :)