shanzerion923 2008-09-18 13:59:56

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!

relipuj 2008-09-18 23:10:22

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 ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_</a>(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

st91 2008-09-20 01:59:55

nice game dude. i faved it.

st91 2008-09-20 02:04:33

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 -_-

SAROTH 2008-09-20 10:49:35

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...)

Toast 2008-09-20 22:12:00

can u donate some money to me pls

NastyNessie 2008-09-21 12:54:09

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

THEkronick281 2008-09-27 14:48:11

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

Mr-Anderson 2008-11-14 10:38:52

lol, you took down your most recent news post?

Sissy.

morepowerfull 2008-11-30 23:19:02

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

daxyplax 2008-12-11 18:57:47

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

Flash-Creature 2008-12-12 16:33:01

Happy B-DAY! :D

SAROTH 2008-12-15 20:48:44

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. ;)

XxPeanutxX 2008-12-18 04:03:51

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.

OMIChih 2009-01-03 19:57:51

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 !!