TAU-09

Very heavily stylized programming-platformer game. Reminds me a bit of Duskers, but removes the focus on atmosphere and instead spends it's budget on a TIS-100 industrial software aesthetic. Having played through the first day, there's a refreshing lack of hand-holding and a good amount of A-ha moments left for the player (unless I have no idea what I'm doing, my solutions look nothing like those in the video!). Noticing lots of little touches: watch the line numbers as you write longer and longer programs, as you figure out benefits and limitations of simulation, a seeming total lack of fourth-wall breaking interface elements ('halt'??). Super thoughtful presentation, definitely my best find on Steam doing sort-by-new so far. Totally worth the $4!

at the moment ive only played the 1st day but i can definitely reccomend if you like to program little toys even if you have little to no knowledge on programming i feel you can pick it up pretty quick and its quite rewarding to see your little guy complete his job

I bought it as a programming game, but it is more of a puzzle game.What disqualifies it as a programming game is basically the absence of any memory or stack.The interface is interesting, but somewhat clunky in places. This is probably intentional, aiming to evoke the feeling of operating a system with limited console resources. Found bugs (or confusing mechanics) : - Map SX-0043P - the cell in the bottom-left corner ignores the scan (true, the goal on this map is to find a path, not to explore, but still). - Lines in the editor are numbered from 1, but the JMP N instruction jumps one line further; for example, the JMP 4 instruction jumps to line 5 in the editor. Internally, it clearly numbers the program lines from 0. - In my opinion, a completely critical bug: the JMP REG instruction (register A, G, ...) does not work at all. At least in my case, it always jumps to the beginning of the program.