
Recursive!
A puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming.
Recursive! launched on February 6, 2021 with 96 votes, #400 of 3,156 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Recursive is a puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming. It is the perfect game for people who love hard puzzles. Your goal is to help little robots collect all gems by finding the correct pattern and translating it into a short program.
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This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit. The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past. The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety. Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating…
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