Lambda Spellcrafting Academy - Learn to Program!

This is cute, and I had fun, but this is [i]really[/i] hard to recommend. I don't think I've seen an attempt at a Lisp-like programming game, but there's just... not enough here. [i]Alan's Automaton Workshop[/i] is a similar idea: Drag-and-drop a program into place in a neat tree-like structure, though obviously a Turing Machine is a different approach than a Lambda Calculus. But [i]Alan's[/i] has a full-blown visual novel. Aside from the state-machine tree, it has a ton of components to wire together, all of which have their own sounds. It has some pretty solid background music. Even the 'tree' part has more to it -- it's not a tree, it's a graph, and you can freely rearrange the nodes, copy/paste, add comments, and otherwise handle much larger programs. It took me 25 hours. But maybe that's an unfair comparison, maybe you can't get that much artwork... or maybe you want a minimalist aesthetic... Except then there's [i]TIS-100[/i], which looks and feels like an old DOS-era machine, works entirely in text... but took me 35 hours, and [i]still[/i] had kind of a compelling story buried in the margins... and it also had [i]juice[/i]. You can't click [i]anything[/i] in TIS without a…

Bought this game since there was only one review and wanted to support a seemingly solo developer who had a concept that looked interesting (to be clear, I do not know the dev, I just like supporting the indie scene). Overall I'd say it's a pretty fun programming game! Early access but seems like it's actively and frequently getting updated. Give the demo a try at least - some QOL stuff that could certainly be improved and plenty of room to add more content, but there's definitely a good foundation here to build off of. Essentially, you can tell from the screenshots (and from the name being a reference to lambda functions), this is just a tree-based programming game, and I compare it to infix programming - everything is a node in a tree. Works on steam deck.

This game is amazing I like love it! All the story and things especially the sandbox level! But the best thing is that One person made this game alone I think. The Graphics are also fantastic! But I would like to see a hint section cause if you get stuck you have to get some sort of help! What would also be great is if you add like a 1v1 thing where it selects one random quest and you have to complete it before the other guy does to earn coins which you can buy bittlewiddle coins with to buy bitllewiddle games! To sum up I am amazed about the game!

good game

Really good and neat mechanic! I think this could help a lot of people learn programming.

The dev was really helpful when I reached out on the discord for assistance with a logic problem. I never ended up understanding it, but if you go into this game ready to learn LIST specifically, then this is a great game for you.