{"author_link":"\/users\/xedur","author_name":"XeduR","author_uid":"1165394","comments":[{"author_name":"Lenophie","author_uid":"1221116","time":"2020-10-05T21:34:18Z","epoch":1601933658,"modified":1601933658,"text":"dunno about the loop but it sure broke my brain, it's neat!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ninnec","author_uid":"1124467","time":"2020-10-05T21:36:22Z","epoch":1601933782,"modified":1601933782,"text":"Really great game! Very cool idea!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"NBumgardner","author_uid":"1221350","time":"2020-10-05T21:42:02Z","epoch":1601934122,"modified":1601934122,"text":"As a programmer I like the premise, and the programming seems really robust for displaying the correct console output for wrong answers. The music fits in well to with that zen feel, and I got stuck at \u200b\u200blevel 3, but it was fun none the less.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"RGilPT","author_uid":"1109754","time":"2020-10-06T08:29:28Z","epoch":1601972968,"modified":1601972968,"text":"@xedur From an Educator, really liked your concept, great work :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"KeithSwanger","author_uid":"1170169","time":"2020-10-06T08:36:55Z","epoch":1601973415,"modified":1601973415,"text":"Really interesting game! The learning curve is a bit sharp right now, but it could really turn into a great educational game! Great job.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"josephdevelops","author_uid":"1215078","time":"2020-10-06T08:41:28Z","epoch":1601973688,"modified":1601973688,"text":"I loved this game. I was a bit burnt out on programming after Ludum Dare so I don't think I was the best player. I love the concept.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Artyom Volkov","author_uid":"1145628","time":"2020-10-06T09:00:45Z","epoch":1601974845,"modified":1601974845,"text":"Great game about programming and loops. Nicely done.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ponywolf","author_uid":"1005016","time":"2020-10-06T14:28:50Z","epoch":1601994530,"modified":1601994530,"text":"That's great. A fun little introduction to Lua!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Saering","author_uid":"1081341","time":"2020-10-06T15:39:54Z","epoch":1601998794,"modified":1601998794,"text":"Nice game! Just completed it, I wish there were more levels but the ones you've done were neat and had be think for a few minutes. I especially liked the one with the \"Sub\" function, I don't know exactly why I had trouble getting its point because I already knew \"SubString\" in C#, but that was fun to find out myself by trying things!\n\nReally neat entry :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hjalte","author_uid":"1000233","time":"2020-10-06T15:52:29Z","epoch":1601999549,"modified":1601999549,"text":"Super fun! I feel like this could be a great learning game :).\n\nMaybe you could've included a comment for some things. I got stuck on the sub-method, because C# uses a start index and length, while yours seems to use a start and end index. \n\nEither way, great game :).","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pfs","author_uid":"1123204","time":"2020-10-06T17:01:15Z","epoch":1602003675,"modified":1602003675,"text":"I loved this game. Even made me search what sub in lua does :D\nWe were also considering a similar game but weren't sure how many non-programmers would understand how it works :\/","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"TureGrappa","author_uid":"1181667","time":"2020-10-07T15:33:54Z","epoch":1602084834,"modified":1602084834,"text":"I love this game with programming lexicon. Good job :smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"paulhocker","author_uid":"1005112","time":"2020-10-08T01:30:23Z","epoch":1602120623,"modified":1602120623,"text":"i had to play this because my game had the same title. i really like the idea for a programming game and it was fun figure it out. nice job on the game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"raoz","author_uid":"1092296","time":"2020-10-08T16:03:07Z","epoch":1602172987,"modified":1602172987,"text":"That was fun, wish there were more levels :smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jarvisp99","author_uid":"1218443","time":"2020-10-08T16:07:49Z","epoch":1602173269,"modified":1602173269,"text":"You should build these games for mobile.....Very good format for students to learn and play with programming.......Loved it...","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fupi","author_uid":"1159213","time":"2020-10-08T16:23:04Z","epoch":1602174184,"modified":1602174270,"text":"This!!! Is!!! So!!! Cool!!! Reminds me of Baba Is You, but only the puzzle part. It's actually kinda impressive that the code runs correctly for every wrong combination of code possible. Even if I never used Lua before, it was easy to understand what the code did and how to break the loop (having the programming language's name in the game itself was a great touch), the difficulty and fun was trying to fumble around with the pieces. This is really solid, I loved it a lot!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"GameDev and Architecture","author_uid":"1215788","time":"2020-10-08T16:39:34Z","epoch":1602175174,"modified":1602175174,"text":"Cute little game. The chill music is just perfect to solve the puzzles.\nI wish there had been more. But as you mentioned, making them was probably time consuming. ^^'","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"guimoliveira","author_uid":"1179280","time":"2020-10-08T16:48:41Z","epoch":1602175721,"modified":1602175721,"text":"Nice idea. More levels pleeease. :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Tomate_Salat","author_uid":"1224053","time":"2020-10-08T16:51:18Z","epoch":1602175878,"modified":1602175878,"text":"Really cool game and it is really nice that the output matches the code. Was really fun to play! Please make some more levels :-)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Madbeagle","author_uid":"1036191","time":"2020-10-08T16:55:47Z","epoch":1602176147,"modified":1602176191,"text":"Ah, I got as far as the 'while do, end' premise and couldn't think how to make that into a game, nice one! I recognise you from the Corona forums (nick sherman), I haven't really been over to the Solar forums much, mostly been doing C64 games for the last year! :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Wendel Scardua","author_uid":"1007131","time":"2020-10-08T17:45:28Z","epoch":1602179128,"modified":1602179128,"text":"Cool way to match the theme, there being even a \"meta loop\" from the last level back to the first :)\n\nIt just took me a few moments to get the `sub` function, but that's more a \"me\" problem; my first thought was substitution instead of substring because I use Ruby at work. Playing with the arguments and checking the output made easy to solve the level anyway (in hindsight I could've googled for lua docs :sweat_smile:)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aligator","author_uid":"1217557","time":"2020-10-08T17:48:01Z","epoch":1602179281,"modified":1602179281,"text":"That's a really nice idea and implementation. This is definitely one of my favorites!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"XeduR","author_uid":"1165394","time":"2020-10-08T18:10:07Z","epoch":1602180607,"modified":1602180607,"text":"Thank you all for your feedback, it's been a delight reading them!\n\n@madbeagle Hey Nick! It's been a while! You should really pop by the Solar2D forums\/Discord. Things have been picking up quite a lot since the engine went fully open source and there's a lot of interesting stuff going on. :D\n\nThat invitation applies to everyone else too! ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CliffracerX","author_uid":"1000563","time":"2020-10-08T22:09:11Z","epoch":1602194951,"modified":1602194951,"text":"Solid little programming game!  Graphics were nice and retro, code easily readable, and the little wiggly snaps as you move blocks around were lovely.  Music was low-intrusiveness and makes for a surprisingly zen atmosphere to debug to, and the little bleeps of success were nice.\n\nLearning curve is definitely liable to be tricky if you've not spent years programming, but I had no trouble with it, and appreciated the meta-loop when you beat the last level.  Great work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kridotsuk","author_uid":"1216872","time":"2020-10-11T10:56:48Z","epoch":1602413808,"modified":1602413808,"text":"I really loved how you took the word loop and turned into the while(true) loop. Great puzzles!\nI just got stuck at level 3 :P","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Narom42","author_uid":"1196573","time":"2020-10-22T18:03:54Z","epoch":1603389834,"modified":1603389834,"text":"Nice game, made me think of baba is you :)","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld47\/214488-4128bb9baa1b11908d7f4e9e9c446b44.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/xedur.itch.io\/break-the-loop","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/xedur.itch.io\/break-the-loop","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/xedur.itch.io\/break-the-loop","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"63038","g_author":"1165394","g_event":"LD47","g_eventkey":"76","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"278010","g_title":"Break the Loop","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"96","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"214488","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"214488","n_urlkey":"278010","n_parent":"212256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/break-the-loop-2","n_slug":"break-the-loop-2","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"165394","n_created":"1600950663","n_modified":"1602045648","n_version":"697624","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":214488,"parent":212256,"superparent":9,"author":165394,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-10-05T21:16:46Z","created":"2020-09-24T12:31:03Z","modified":"2020-10-07T04:40:48Z","version":697624,"slug":"break-the-loop-2","name":"Break the Loop","body":"A simple game where your only goal is to break the loop. 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