JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

Hey! Yo! This is a great game! Scratches that puzzle itch while I continue to practice python! Now to try and get sleep cycles back on track. lol To the dev: this is great! I love your work on this. Hopped on this after "The Farmer Was Replaced" and loving this one too.

Quite frustrating for this longtime Python coder. The coordinate and movement system is cumbersome and lacks an in-game introduction. The API docs are too vague in this regard, specifically for MovingPlatform.get_current_location(). The 3D controls often interfere with the code editor window. If one makes the code editor window smaller to make more room for the 3D controls, the “Run” and Stop” buttons for code execution disappear from the top row of the code window. The “expert system” tells me I should be “more decorous” when asking it about these issues. The robot arm object reports it is carrying an object when it is not. The Joy of Programming did not bring me joy.

Controls are janky AF, UnPlayable

Since graduated from CS and became jobless. This game make me re-think my life, maybe I don't really wasted those 4 years in my university for nothing.

It's a very fun, but imperfect game. Despite its flaws, I had a lot of fun with this game and ended up beating most of the puzzles - it covers some challenging and relevant topics, it's pretty damn cool that you can leverage OpenCV / SciPy in your programs, and there's generally many ways to solve each problem. I'm recommending the game because of this - it's a solid programming game and there aren't many other games like this that give you a lot of power, but also throw you into the deep end. That said, I have some criticisms about the game: 1. Clunky APIs with poor documentation - for most of the APIs you just need to experiment / try them out to understand how they work. 2. The puzzles use different coordinate systems / mix left-handed coordinate system into the game which basically just adds friction / increases the chances for bugs. IMO you should just use right-handed coordinates because 99% of math / computer vision / robotics assumes this convention. You're just adding friction by mixing in left-handed coordinates and breaking established conventions. 3. Many of the puzzles are physics-based and rely on precise timing to reach a decent solution. There's a complex interplay…

Pretty good challenges, lets you solve problems in any way you want. I think I'd prefer if the game had more diverse challenges, but it's pretty good as it is.