Note for Hour of Code Reviewers

Dear Reviewers,

If you came here before october 10, thanks for coming back, the game is in a better state now

We are making this new app specially for Hour of Code this year, we are a small company which make no money on these apps (we work on other stuffs to pay for this). This is still work in progress and we are working hard on it.

It will be finished before november but you can evaluate it now (and we will keep updating it here throughout october).

Some explanations :

• While the gameplay is quite different, we re-use some mechanics of our previous game http://compute-it.toxicode.fr/, already on Hour of Code. Perhaps you could play it for a few minutes to understand better (but playing "Compute it" won't be a requirement for the players)
• You can trust us to have for november a game that will not look less "finished" than "Compute it".
• Try the first levels here. Cards and instructions are ugly, it's work in progress.
• In term of programming concepts, the learning curve is slower than the "Compute it" progression and here we will go less far, because the present game has more focus on repeated practices of easier notions.
• In "compute it", you just have to read and execute. Here we add a strong strategic aspect : the player has a deck of cards, he has to pick several cards in sequence and plan his progression to reach the finish point. It requires planning, comparing code chunks, and a strong sense of context : the same code will produce very different results depending on where it is executed (collisions with walls, conditions on colors on the ground...)
• We will give it a bit of an adventure game feeling. We hope to achieve a good replayability
• Feel free to ask any question at communication@toxicode.fr

The Toxicode Team