DA-VI-NC1

This game won’t be for everyone, but if you’re the type of person who likes messing about with the BrainF**k programming language, or Zachtronics games as long as you don’t mind a smaller scale, you should check out the demo. I enjoyed it a lot. There are severe limitations on what you can do, but finding workarounds to those is part of the challenge. In addition to the programming, there are three optional human-verification puzzles that are very clever and do seem like puzzles modern LLMs would fail to solve. The minimal story is no Thomas Was Alone or Doki Doki Literature Club, but generally good for what it is and potentially thought-provoking. While there aren’t a ton of levels, the game does support custom levels via Steam Workshop. Optimistically more people might buy the game and create levels over time. NOTE: There appears to be a bug that may prevent Workshop content from downloading until you save a custom level yourself. Also be aware that clicking the “U” button on the custom level screen will immediately upload the current level to the Workshop (you can go to the workshop page to delete it if you make a mistake).

DA-VI-NC1 is a nice coding game. To get the coding right you need to read the manual. The first puzzles where quite easy. But the further you get, the harder it is to compete the puzzles within the restrictions (10 modes and only 12 lines per mode).

I'm on the fence about this one. It demonstrates the power of Turing machines, and also why they are only used in theoretical proofs and not for actual computation. The programs you'll write will be very cryptic, and it's not even possible to add comments to them. It's still a good brain teaser, especially if you haven't played many similar games. The English localization has some grammar errors, but nothing serious (it won't interfere with the enjoyment of the game). The UI could also benefit from some more polish, especially the debugging interface. At the time of writing this, I have completed all puzzles and all but one of the CAPTCHAs. (The remaining one is just too obscure for me, I don't think I'll spend any more time trying to figure it out.) This shows that it can be finished in an afternoon, so don't expect weeks' worth of brain-teasers from it, but your mileage may vary.

If you wanna try programming a Turing Machine right after watching Computerphile episodes, you came to the right game! The state card and the paper tape designs keeps the origin flavour from Turing Machine. And the puzzle design keeps the difficulty in a right spot, but not tedious. Although there's some minor QoL issue (ex. lack of cloud-save system). It's still a light-hearted game to try. Recommended if you are a hardcore programmer. Here's a little tip: remember to bring your pencil and paper to draw state-diagrams while playing. It helps a lot. ☺️

if you're a computer scientist or logician or love puzzles (or etc), this might be for you