The description reminds me of 'that turtle program' I encountered as a child...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
Hopefully this program also helps teach children new ways of thinking. As a suggestion, any sort of 'building blocks' graphical script language that doesn't need words?
That's nice because it's a programming game, but it doesn't send you in the deep-end. Whatever you do appears on the screen pretty much instantly, so you get that constant feedback loop, it's like a 3D voxel REPL.
Many programming games got complex real quick and frankly annoying. I like this model, it's simple, if you let it through, it's a block, return a number for a colour.
i initially found this game through the developer's tiktok account - they've got some great marketing over there.
ended up getting the demo and i'll probably be buying the full game
The 2D version of this coding game would be tixy: https://tixy.land/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=tixy.land , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942881 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974534
Tried the demo. Very good baby's first step to shaders
I don’t usually like programming games but this looks genuinely interesting. As I saw others mentioned the similarity to the thinking required for using OpenSCAD or writing shaders makes this extra interesting for me because I suck at both of those things.
Saw this on X - great game, picked it up and have already sunk a few hours into it.
Literally my favourite game of this year, thanks so much for making this!
This developer is also responsible for Parking Garage Rally Circuit, the most fun game I’ve played in years!
i already played this 2 hours. really liked it
I am excited to see coding become more and more of a creative medium as AI frees up from the monotony of crafting business logic slop.
Went to check it out, it has a demo so it's worth giving it a shot, but then I went to look at what else this developer has published just to find it's the guy behind the original jelly car games?? Which they have a sequel to on their steam page and the music instantly sent me back. This became a huge nostalgia trip on accident, thanks for sharing!