BitVault
Simple puzzle game. A good hacker puzzle. At first it seemed simple to me, but the complexity grew and it became interesting. I liked both the style the gameplay. Not a masterpiece, but it definitely deserves attention and worth to play. I recommend it.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
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An addictive logic game. A game that will immerse you in the world of a great hacker puzzle. The difficulty of the game is average, in most cases it seems easy, but sometimes you still need to think carefully)
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
CHV: VR Trunk Escape
- it starts?
-so crappy it’s unplayable
-horrible controls
-buggy
1/5
Stay away from this it’s not even close to being worth $3. Even at free I probably wouldn’t touch it. It’s so bad it’s unplayable.
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– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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Played on Valve Index, Ryzen 3700X, RTX 2070 Super
Everything seemed to work for me, I was able to complete the 3 objectives (stop the engine, start the hazard lights, and escape the trunk). I’m not entirely sure the point of the canbus device other than it may have made the escape the trunk part quicker but I just puzzled through it.
The controls are finicky. The sensitivity seems pretty high so movement feels like playing quake but slightly faster. The turn action by default is set to the left portion of the touch pad which doesn’t work very well on the small index pad. Grab actions seemed to register well expect for pushing your character away if you reached too far into a virtual object/wall.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Software Engineering Course / Informatyka - zrozum i zaprogramuj komputer
Software Engineering Course
The program was created on the basis of an engineering study program. No prior knowledge of any IT issues is required - we start with simple tasks and step by step learn the basics of computer programming.
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Lesson 1: Basic Logic - You learn the basic logical operations.
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Lesson 2: Gates And & Or - You build a machine controlled by electronic gates.
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Lesson 3: Exercises with Gates - You learn about more complex integrated circuits.
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Lesson 4: Binary Numbers
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Lesson 5: Single-bit Processor - You write the first programs - lighting the lights in the machine.
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Lesson 6: Programming Microprocessor - Assembler - This is the first difficult, complex lesson: you write assembler programs in machine language. You’ll see how the processor executes the commands, how the data is kept in memory, you will learn the basic instructions of the processor.
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Lesson 7: C Programming Language - You write simple programs and see how high-level programs are translated into the language of the processor instructions.
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Lesson 8: Objective Programming Basics - You program a robot that has to traverse the board with traps.
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Lesson 9: Computer Graphics Basics - You learn how images are stored, write pixel drawing programs, simple charts, test colors, and compress the image.
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Lesson 10: Hardware - Just a basic information.
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Lesson 11: Linux Operating System - You learn the basic shell commands, combine them into simple scripts.
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GRID_HACKER
Redirect, reflect, and split your signal to reach the target in well over 100 levels, plus an ever-expanding collection of user-created challenges, all while enjoying a rich, unique soundtrack.
LEVEL EDITOR
Craft your own level packs in the fully featured, Workshop-integrated level editor!
Code World
Greatly recommended if you are learning Python and already know the basic stuff. You inspect code and look for dependencies to figure out the puzzle - just like in real life. Music is relaxing and I like the concept a lot.
If you don’t know any programming language it is pretty hard, though.
Unfortunately, the game doesn’t support the German keyboard layout, so entering special characters like [] () = or : is a bit cumbersome.
– Real player with 29.8 hrs in game
This game does not touch upon object-oriented programming, nor does it implement try/except blocks. And that’s perfectly acceptable, since I can only imagine the hassle of trying to add those. But once I found out that things like:
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string slicing
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concatenation via multiplication (str * int)
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the ‘break’ keyword
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elif
are not supported, my eyebrow finally raised. Then there are the things that are partially implemented (ie. maimed) - tuples and dynamic typing. The Python in here is extremely barebones and so is the interpreter. It provides zero feedback on what went wrong, only that it did. And if you’re not careful and don’t use the Ctrl+C clipboard to store the latest version of your script, a syntax error will wipe all of your progress (by automatically restarting the level).
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
EXAPUNKS
The best “Zach-like” game yet. Even if it is by Zach.
Another excellent puzzle game from Zachtronics. If you’ve never played a game like this before, this is an open-ended puzzle game. By “open-ended” I mean there is a problem you are trying to solve, and you are given tools (in this case a programming language for what appears to be tiny robots) to solve it as you choose. You build a solution to the presented problem. You win if the solution works but how you get to a working solution is up to you. There are limits to your freedom both by the language and what the “little robots” can accomplish at one time. The puzzle here revolves around writing little program fragments that unfold through parallelization into pretty impressive results. It is a complete programming language (although a very simple one) and even has a little test-bed where you can make your own creation without a specific goal.
– Real player with 107.5 hrs in game
The first Zachtronic game I found myself being able to complete and with extremely minimal help, more so due to that some puzzles are difficult to understand rather than writing the code itself. Even though the game does get hard, it does an excellent job of preparing you for the difficulty ahead. Even without any programming knowledge, you’ll be able to overcome the challenges this game poses. You can always see the exact end state the game wants you to leave the board in at any time, which serves as an excellent guide in what you’re meant to do.
– Real player with 87.6 hrs in game
Rogue Bit
Very awesome unique game! Had a greate pleasure solving those assembler puzzles. I wish it lasted a lot longer: completed it on Switch pretty quickly, just decided to buy in Steam to express my delight to the author and also to play in the level editor, which is missing on Switch. I have lots of ideas of my own puzzles to implement on this mechanic :)
As for the final recommendation, I think not everybody will like such game. If you are a programmer of some kind, I think you will certainly like it, but if you are completely unfamiliar with coding and related stuff, such as computer architecture and binary logic, you’ll probably not highly appreciate it. But it definitely deserves a like from me ;)
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Amazingly well done! The cuteness of the single bit, all alone inside the
giant machine, trying desperately to escape using only its power to XOR
with other memory (without accidentally wiping itself out), as you valliantly
try to help it escape by making sense of the many arcane and curious
algorithms running a single step each time the little bit tries to move.
I love how screens show the single bit moving into the register and
reappearing elsewhere in the vast memory after the instruction.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Move Code Lines
Only partially through the second level but OMFG this “game” is actually incredible and I’m learning so much already I can’t imagine what I’ll learn by playing all the way through. DEFINITELY recommend if you’re interested in programming or learning about programming. The interface is really relaxing, one of the color themes is the old QBASIC editor theme xD and the music is super chill.
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
Stylishly executed game, with pleasant musical accompaniment. From the main screen greets you with its core mechanic, namely the ability to move the lines of the name of the game.
Programming language is a little bit similar to Python and to C++, but… in reality you do not need to program, just read a code lines and sort it to the right position for solving the puzzle.
At the initial stages, everything looks very simple, the solution of the issues can be found faster than you reading, intuitively bugs hunting. But the further you move through the list of levels, the more difficult it gets.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
The Devil’s Calculator
A very simple concept that at its core is very solid. The UI makes it slightly cumbersome to get to the meat of the gameplay.
THE GOOD:
-A solid minimalist concept. You have very simple and intuitive tools, yet many options to reach the end goal. The game is secured well against brute forcing by the inherent knapsack problem nature of the puzzles.
-The game owns its aesthetic. The game is presented entirely as it was hacked together from an actual calculator. Menu navigation works exactly like the cumbersome navigation of calculators of old.
– Real player with 18.0 hrs in game
The Devil’s Calculator is a neat reverse engineering & maths puzzle game.
How the game works
Each level requires the player to do the following:
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Figure out which mathematical operation is used when pressing the special button on the calculator.
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Use this button to calculate the integer 666.
The game starts with a simple operation that only takes 1 input, then later replaces it with one that takes 2 inputs, and adds another third operator, and at some point 2 or 3 obscure operators are available. When there are multiple operators available, the player has to use all of them to calculate 666.
– Real player with 17.2 hrs in game
Turing Complete
Fantastic Game. It scratches an itch I didn’t even realize I had. This contains the essence of a university level introduction to Computer Hardware course, disguised as a game. In fact, it surpasses it in some ways. I never actually did get to build an entire functional computer in University, but you do here. In university we built some circuits, and had to use our imagination how it would fit into a complete architecture, and then jumped to learning to program the already existing Motorola 68K. In this “game”, not only do you build a fully functional computer (vitually, of course), but you also design the instruction set and assembly language that goes with it. And once you’re done with the in-game challengese, you still have the sandbox and all the components to do something on your own… like build an actual Motorola 68K.
– Real player with 180.1 hrs in game
I’ve been a professional software developer for almost a decade, and I’ve never been more proud of anything I’ve ever built than when I wrote a program to solve a maze in an assembly language that I encoded on a computer I built from scratch in this game. I feel like for the first time I REALLY understand how a computer works, and it is incredibly gratifying.
I’ve been playing games like Factorio, Infinifactor, Shinzen I/O, TIS-100, Astroneer. Minecraft, “While True: Learn()”, etc., but it turns out that this is the itch I was trying to scratch the whole time. And in the sense of scratching that itch, this is the best game I’ve ever played.
– Real player with 100.3 hrs in game