Did we use individual gate chips? NO! We used a freaking computerized robot controler. It included elevation changes, wall following, and line following. In college, I designed and built an autonomous robot that could navigate a maze, "mine" marble and BB "ore", sort the ore to separate it, and deposit it in separate bins at the end of the maze. Just for context, I'm not just talking out my rear here. but an incredibly frustrating and fiddly UI totally lets it down. The process of iterating designs to find that solution might have been fun. Instead it's a very confined, railroady kind of puzzle game, where each puzzle has only a handful of solutions. I envisioned generalized challenges with lots of robot parts and options for different ways to complete the challenges, where my design decisions matter, and I can achieve some cool aesthetics. I came into Logicbots expecting something akin to KSP.
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It can't seem to make up its mind if it wants to be a robotic design simulator or a puzzle game, and winds up losing itself in a no-man's-land between the two, with the fiddly UI of a simulator at odds with the arbitrary restrictions and confinement of a puzzle game. TL DR – LogicBots is a great concept totally let down by bizarre design decisions and quite possibly the worst UI I've ever seen. I think the game is well worth the price if you are interested in programming and robotics.
However, if you are looking for a strictly mathematical game with no random factors, then you might find this approach to be annoying. This randomness is not just luck, it is a design challenge that can be overcome by careful analysis. In the real world it is almost impossible to control all the variables, so real devices must be over engineered to cope with the unexpected. The random factor is a deliberate part of the game, to simulate real world situations. This situation is described in the tutorial under the reliability heading, and ways to engineer around it are discussed. I have read several negative reviews that fault the game because there is a small random factor in the tests: what this means is that if you repeat the same test with the same robot you might get different results. But I haven't encountered any game breaking bugs. The interface could be a little better designed: it often takes multiple clicks to do what I feel should be acomplished in one. The puzzles can all be solved by logic unlike many puzzle games the difficulty is not created by making you try random guesses. There is an extensive campaign with increasingly challenging tests, and a sandbox mode to just mess around.īuilding the robots, and designing the control circuit is very interesting.The robots look realistic, and the building on the circuit boards has a simple but realistic feel. The tutorial is a very good introduction to boolean logic and simple circuit board construction. I am only three hours into the game, but I can already see it meets my expectations. For a fraction of the cost of real parts I could practice building robots and circuits before laying down the serious money. But I hesitate to spend a couple of hundred dollars on a project that I might not have the talent or persistence to complete. I have been considering getting a raspberry pi computer and a robots kit to build a mobile weather station (my own 'Mars rover') just for fun.
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