Alan's Automaton Workshop

random crashes some times. Whole solution gone. auto saves, ever heard of them?

It is a lovely little game i got it on sale but here is a few things I think it should be improved. 1. Why does a programming game punishes player's code that has fewer, leaner nodes than standard ??!? This does not makes sense. The way score calculated is quantity of node x weighted score, it means more nodes you have , more score your have, rather than reward you got punished ???? This is somewhat de-motivates me to have fun with the game honestly as I will stand corrected at my leaner code even though it rewarded me with less score. 2. The character design could use a bit more work tbh, the guy actually looks the same ; copy-pasted like old school flash games. At least have different hair or face? Anyway, this is not a major issue 3. The Art Style is great. I like it. IMO, get it on sale and just enjoy the gameplay, ignore the scoring system and you are all good for a little casual fun.

Quite fun! Just started it but kind of addicting. Liking that it's (sort of) visual representation of coding! Which is helping my semi-practice the logic without actually working on a project.

Its a decent programming game. This shouldn't be the first programming game that you play though, there are better ones. Some of the later problems are really going to leave you stuck if you don't have a strong inclination to this sort of thing.

The game is about building Finite State Automata and later Turing machines to solve various problems. All programming in this game is done via a flowchart interface and you cannot build reusable components or copy parts of your solution between problems. Due to the fact that the interface is rather low-level (even copying data requires a "map" operation) writing useful programs is somewhat tedious. The art in this game consists of beautiful steampunk-style machines, which sometimes take more screen real estate than would be useful. There is also a detailed story line involving computing pioneers such as Alan Turing, however I skipped it in my playthrough. The puzzles begin extremely easy but by the later chapters are much more challenging. There is also a sandbox mode and the ability to share puzzles online.

Very unique programming game. Every component of the computer clicks and whirrs nicely.