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Punch corp

- Rate the game on Ludum Dare #60: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/60/punch-corp- Rate the game on ich.tio: https://jhysek.itch.io/punch-corp/rate About The game takes you back to the days of mainframe computers and dumb terminals. You’re a new hire at a big corporation Punch Corp. Their programmers are real punchers, and you’re about to become one of them! Yes. This is a coding job. And it’s tough, because punched tapes are still state of the art. It’s not for everyone! Only real programmers can handle punched tapes. Not like those Fortran hipsters. Do you dare? About the computer There are 15 instructions you can use. Instruction is encoded in 4 bits. But you won’t need half of them, some of them (like conditions) has no use at all in the game. I wanted to introduce new instructions with each level but there was no time left - so you have full manual available and find what you need. This is raw coding experience! The tape has 32 lines you can use for your code. Left part is for encoded instruction, right part is for argument. Unlike the real punched tape, both parts of the tape in the game have the least significant bit on right. Oh, and you’d need to know a little bit of binary, but it’s obvious when you are about to code in machine code :) If you’d like, you want to optimize code for the fewest lines! When you click after finishing a level, you can see stats in the menu + you can return to every level you visited. Controls control the punching head by keyboard like a real programmer!Arrow/WASD to move punching headSpace - punch a hole into the tape (or remove it if there already is one - what a technology!)Esc - back to menu - you can return to levels you already opened (until you reload the page)(cheat code Shift+N to next level, if you are stuck but you’d like to see the rest) Walkthrough If you are stuck, check this walkthrough video (no audio in the video, unfortunately). Used tools Godot engineInkscape + GimpAudacityjam.trackr (https://jamtrackr.net)