SO TRUE :D

Looking forward to the TBS. I've always wanted to make a similar game, but I plan too big and never follow through.

I always liked these program games, with a little more graphical flair and effects this could have been a masterpiece!

That was good, I liked it lol

it was fun im trying to learn programming in school im know it's very complex and a lot of hard work

why not just teach me to program in insanely heck bent on it enoghf!

Most people should try ationscripting, only then will tey learn how much time and effort it takes. (I suck at it).

I'll stick to buttons thank you very much

Your new game looks an awful lot like this one: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /200730

:/

i meant the entire game is that you dont have to retry once ou know what all the buttons do. you misunderstood my review

I got bored around level 9... reflects programming logic fairly well except for the intense limitations provided... so sleepy...

agagaga lvl 11

this was a solid idea to get people to notice the difficulty of how hard it is to program games...and this game should have gotten atleast 2nd

I'm currently learning actionscript and I found out that isn't that hard, actually it's just a of mix of math and logic. I even made some gadgets in flash without copy and pasting the scripts because there's no point at all if I do that.
However I need to learn what does each command do, that's all what I need to learn.

And good luck in your future projects, dude :)

I agree with you completely. It's never easy to make a decent game. I mean, it took me 2 weeks just to make a crappy one. Flash isn't a piece of cake.

Mmmm....Cake...

Well this game taught me the first thing about actionscript, it is tedious to do simple tasks. If only I was such a procrastinator and actually tried to learn actionscript.

Loved it! Granted the functions are kinda just a cheap way to increase the total main program space, rather then actually be a reusable function half the time...

I really liked it though, it would have been cool to put in more stuff which can be used in programming, like for loops and if's. I think this could potentially be a cool way to introduce kids into the fundamentals of programming!

Again, well done, it's a great idea, I'd love to speak to you about maybe collaborating on a sequel, drop me a PM and I'll let you know my email address and we can talk if you'd like :)

Ever since I played that Bill the Robot game I've been looking for another game like it, and I think yours is quite a bit better, because it's much more challenging and a better layout. The only problem is that I can't beat it...

Anyways, good job!

-Matt

we all have school <3

Good, job. Good luck on further programing.
And yea, school sucks ass.

LOL.This game just got 5 basic commands(move,left,right,light,jump).
How could this compare to the real programmin whole library!!!

your first weekly! congrats :)

i have something 2 say. look at Xopod's review on your recent submission. i think he has some good suggestions for you that would work well (in a sequel maybe?) but the game is good anyway. cute lil fella huh? (lightBot-kawaii. :3) you're going on my faves list. YAY!

Hello,

First, sorry, but english isn't my mother tongue, so don't look too much for my errors.

This is really a great game, my 4 years-old son is playing and really enjoying it. And he's very proud when he finish a level. Thanks a lot for sharing your creativity with everybody! It's appreciated a lot, and he's saying thanks too.

I'm an old time coder, mostly asm/c/batch/perl, and 26 years ago i learned with a language called logo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) ) which seems very similar to your game. It was CLI, not GUI but it's nice to make learning tools. I'd like to make you some suggestions, this is not critics, as my kid like your game but seems to have difficulties reaching higher levels. Feel free to make what ever you want.

*** For each program instructions:
- highlight the instructions, so people can understand what's going on.
- display in few words what the instruction does, in a way that is visible while the robot execute the program. The delay for showing them isn't important, see below for the debug mode.
- play a specific sound for each instructions. I'd be very curious to hear a program song, aren't you? Well, as long as my kid doesn't play with it for hours... ;-) But I think it would help him some how.

*** Make a Debug/Learning mode:
- allow the player to run the program forward or backward, one instructions at a time, as we can with a pretty decent debugger.
- add a slider to make the robot slower or faster, so people can read what's going on, hear the sounds or skip some parts.
- allow the player to change the program while it's running.
- allow the player to double click an instruction while the program is running to execute it.

*** Options:
- text diplay of the current instruction.
- sound of the current instruction.

Of course these are just suggestions. What would be great also might be loops and conditionals, but it's perhaps out of the topic. Never the less you made a really great job, if you have a paypal account i'd be happy to give you 100 euros if you implement -- the way you think you like, and in the spirit of your game -- those elements in your game. My email is relipuj@gmail.com feel free to contact me.

Great job!
Relipuj

nice game dude. i faved it.

oh, and i dont rly have to comment about the school thing do i? cause i pretty much get the point that school blows, i think everyone knows that. and i still have alot more years of it -_-

O_O And it's not even music based. Awesome though, pertty hard but I beat it eventually.

(The more I play your games, the more I think of Streamline II...)

can u donate some money to me pls

Your Light-Bot game is really cool, kudos! As a game developer/programmer, though, I'd encourage you to polish it up a bit more because it's really got some great potential!

Some recommendations if you are interested:

* Ability to control playback speed - could be as simple as a slider bar or a few buttons at preset speeds slower than normal/1x speed.
* Ability to "step" through the instructions one at a time.
* Hilight the currently executing instruction. Calling into a function should leave the function "call" hilighted to illustrate what's happening. The playback speed would have to be much lower though in order for this to be worthwhile, which is where the above suggestions originate.
* Don't automatically move the player to the next challenge once they succeed. Perhaps they want to reexamine their "program" to make sure they understand why it worked...or if their solution didn't seem optimal, go back and tweak their program.
*Consider allowing someone to skip a level.
*Display the current level number somewhere.
*Since the game is so fun, more levels would be sweet!

Anyway, nice work!
-J

before i made games i thought it would be easy as cake (i was wrong)

Great game, but you should have added if statements or sensors :(

lol, you took down your most recent news post?

Sissy.

Men.. light bot is really nice, congrats.. i think it would be nice to make an editor so people could make their own levels.. that would be great!

greetins

dude, good job, you're like really good at those games. oh yeah, i've played light-bot before, i liked it, good job at the games dude.

-RhiandBren

Happy B-DAY! :D

A) I completely agree with the guy above me.
B) LightBot is awesome
C) If/ when you go back to music-based games, you should do some ZeRo-BaSs stuff. Hes tunes are awesome.

Big fan BTW. ;)

Gonna give us another update soon? I'm still waiting for the TBS. School still sucks and we all still has it tho.

I've never gotten very good at programming, just played with it a bit a few years back, but I agree with what you're saying about gamers on newgrounds not really understanding, or sadly, caring how complex programming is, it's the same way with music in a way, people don't realise the difficulty involved in playing a musicial insturment well and then staying in rhythm, yet they critisize like they're expert musicians, give undeserved credit to much simpler songs, as far as most people are concerned the singer is the most important part of a band...those same people need to be given forced guitar lessons 4 hours a day for 6 months, then maybe they can at least see the singer is not the most crucial part to any band, it's the most replaceable.

Time for a new post !
And keep working on your TBS instead of watching movies >:|

1 Hour ago i started to play LightBot, it's a beauty game, really you make an excellent work :)

I'm a teacher of the Mexican Olympiad in Informatics and we use a educational Programming Lenguage called Karel (so similar with Guido Van Robot, but Karel is an old implementation, so it has more features than Guido..)

I think that if you want I and some partners can design new levels and you can add them to LightBot, and even i can tell you another idea for an other beauty Logic/Programming game.

So, I'm sending to you a copy of this comment by Private Message

Greetings from Mexico !!