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Yet another example when the original solution worked, the task got more complicated, original solution no longer worked so I slapped a band-aid on it instead of "rewriting" it altogether. You are right, this is much better :)

Good luck to your dad!! That leaderboard puzzle is so mean. In my code there is so much room for optimization still. But I feel the leaderboard puzzle might just break everything anyway. Let's see!

@@KedrigernGaming 😅True, it always breaks when something is touched, like a Jenga tower.

You nailed it! I'd say I'm good at removing Jenga tiles (editing my code) but when I run it, it's as if I threw a bowling ball at it... It's actually a good coding analogy overall. Coding is like trying to remove Jenga bricks from a tower only using a bowling ball.

@KedrigernGaming 😂Using the bowling ball is true, with me, I basically used an excavator.

I love it 😂

Love you too <3

Don't worry, I broke it too. But now it's kinda a 'delete all' time. So I feel like a bit of spaghetti is fine!

@@KedrigernGaming 😅I think that's how it always goes with games like this.

I don't think it does (no polymorphism, classes or any of that fancy stuff). It is a very 'simple' version of coding. Beginner friendly in that sense I feel. I suppose this is less 'learn to code' and more 'solve puzzles' kind of game. But it the closest any game has ever gotten to coding as far as I know. So you can actually learn the basics quite nicely as it is all visual and nicely done. The game also forces you to review your own code, debug it, refactor it on build on it. So if you write bad code, you are the one being punished for it later when you need to revisit it and make some changes. I have never seen a game like this before.

@@KedrigernGaming Well, it works for somebody but not for everybody. For example if you install KSP and start playing, you not going to have a great and easy time trying to land on the moon, more like a strouggle full of frustration. It's a game, and you can try out everything, but you still going to have a "Why i can't get this to work" experience probably, because most people does. Back to this game: for the same thing I recommend Mimo instead. Not frustrating. You not going to slam your phone into the ground, and teach you everything what this game does, even if you have tiktok attention, and even if you only have 5 minutes a day. And it WILL get you there. Probably many people going to have that certain KSP experience with this one also.

It is true this game just drops you into the action for sure. But I really love that it is not learning course or anything like that. It really is just a game.

Those deceptively simple puzzles are the hardest to solve. Keep in mind this is my third attempt at this puzzle. Each time I got better by utilizing some helpful advice, but even if it sounds clear on the paper, the implementation is entirely different.

@@KedrigernGaming For a 3rd attempt I would say it is amazing and I have played games with some puzzles in them (not puzzle games), but what is supposed to be simple, I ended up overcomplicating it and google the answer (then comes the 🤦‍♂️). The Entropy Centre is now where my braincells start working overtime, but getting through makes me feel like a genius😅.

Thanks! The game is interesting! Looks like Portal with more mechanics. Love that these puzzles are working for you. That "feel like a genius" is the main reason people solve puzzles :D

@@KedrigernGaming It is nice to play a game that requires more than just basic controls. It is more enjoyable to see these puzzle games when you play them because some of them are not for me, but if you want another coding scratch like game Autonauts is a good challenge to get things automated with bots and have limited inputs on them.

Now that looks really good! Thanks :) (actually it looks a bit crap but we don't play these game for the graphics :D )

You experienced high discomfort watching that for a long period of time. I did not because I didn't see it. But the pain I felt once I realized... still no idea what is worse 😂

Now I have something in my eye... Thank you, so nice of you to say!!

I second that, it doesn't sound boring and can also can keep up with what is happening.

Thank you! This really means a lot to me!!

@@KedrigernGaming i just lobe the way u doing them, high quality and with a crazy amo7nt of humour

This warms my heart <3

Thank you so much!!! You made my day :)

Looking forward to it! Expect it to be maybe a bit easier than in the first game thanks to some new mechanics but we shall see :)

Exactly why I always double or tripple the time estimates. And know that 'almost done' means, it is not yet tested, the 15 TODOs I could not solve are still there, the 'minor' bugs throughout the code are very present and basically the work is not even half way done. What's the rule? Spend 80% of the time finishing the remaining 20% of the work? At this point I feel it might be better to start from scratch. Probably much less work than major refactoring and less mind bending..?

​@@KedrigernGaming Each of your farm programs should work fine with a few unlock checks on functions unlocked later. Most of the work is gonna be on stuff you haven't done yet or deleted, like polyculture, watering, creating the dictionary of unlocks that your main loop has to check for whether they're unlocked, how much they cost, what to unlock next. It's up to you whether you think all that is best done from scratch or massaged into the existing loop. Ultimately, getting down to sub 20 minutes will probably require multiple rewrites but it might be worth it to bodge a working leaderboard automation before that to get a feel for what it's gonna take in the first place.

I thought they would work fine with a few checks but was afraid it would create too much clutter...which would be impossible to debug lol. The thing is the current version of the code is not pretty either. So this might be a nice opportunity to make it clean? But adding a few unlock checks was my first idea indeed. I guess I'm stressing over it too much. Gotta just dive head first into it and see. Thank you for the confidence you have in me not messing this up!

@@KedrigernGaming Oh I'm sure you will mess up in a few cases along the way but it's part of the fun. Mostly the viewer's fun. 😉

I am well aware viewer retention is directly proportional to my pain. I will do my best not to disappoint!

This means so much! Thank you!

So true!!

Some next level trolling

Thank you! I hope it won't stop there.

I named the playlist after this game, the name is just under the video and also as a response to a few other comments asking the same question. Maybe the issue is the game having a weird name? Not sure...

Wouldn't the implementation be exactly the same?

@@KedrigernGaming not quite, they have similar complexity, similar implementations, but insertion sort on average moves items shorter distances, so it is a a small constant faster.

There is a nice visualiser video by udiprod.

True! Nice 😀

Extra optimizations i thought of after writing the comment that brought the time down further ------- 1) You can yell out 'ready' before you place the cube down and still just barely make it in time 2) Instead of having to tell your neighbor to start, they can wait until they see you have a 9, and then they know the next time you pick up the cube they should too! 3) Neighbors can also help each other by calling out ready for each other, so the person doing work doesn't have to Specific solution I divided the code into four roles - the counter, the first digit, the middle digits, and the last digits THE COUNTER just presses the button whenever they hear ready THE FIRST DIGIT just increments their number whenever they see the counter return MIDDLE DIGITS have two modes - if the number on their right is not 9, they are an announcer, otherwise they are a worker Announcers wait for their right neighbor to pick up the box, then yell our 'ready' a second later Workers wait for their right neighbor to pick up the box, and then increment their own THE LEFTMOST DIGIT waits for a 9 on their right, then acts like a worker - except that they call our their own ready (they have no one on their left to rely on) I may have forgotten to implement the announcer role for the leftmost digit - luckily for this level that edge case never comes up

I love this so much! Great job there! Gotta be honest though, I might have played this game a bit too much and all the puzzles and times I tried to optimize some are just getting mixed up. I was so sure I tried to implement the solution you suggest already and that it did not work. But maybe it was a different puzzle? Or maybe...maybe it was just in my head? Who knows... That being said, I'm actually even more happy to read your comment! Thanks <3

When solving this I was mentally one step behind. I wanted to check for a 0 and knew I had to let the other worker write it first. Hence waiting for him to come back. But yeah, if the worker goes down to fetch a 9..i should probably know what he's about to write lol.

1) You're right, it works fine if they all stand still 2) Oh, clever - This could save not only the pickup, write, and drop, but also a calculate

Thank you for the tip! I have done that already...partially. It always seemed like "This is the last I am gonna have to do/write this. Probably no need to make it generalize the idea." But new mechanics just kept popping up and...eh..yeah, I should optimize a bunch!

This is exactly what is bad with schools. You write code and know damn well no one including you is ever gonna read it again. So the quality is crap, obviously.... And you don't learn until it eventually bites you in your behind. Need to solve a few puzzles in this game so I expect to be bitten quite soon.

For sure. Although even this wouldn't be great since we could possibly block certain groups of dinos from mixing. This really is just the worst sort ever, isn't it. Maybe only the Miracle Sort can beat it....or my version of Stalin sort...

@@KedrigernGaming What about if you placed dinos from where you harvested them from.

Could do..would have to search the grid for all spots without dinos.

Looking back I'm not sure why I said that. I was talking about passing a function to be called...and for some reason wanted to pass its arguments separately? Guess that's again me not knowing much about python so I thought I could only pass a reference to a function. Then later call it and supply the arguments also later.

@@KedrigernGaming yeah, and in my case we're always passing a function with no arguments, be it a regular function or a lambda that uses closure to do whatever

Thank you! It is on the list for sure :)

That's happy news

That is the ultimate goal. I will not give up! But it will be a lot of work..surprisingly.

@@KedrigernGaming Yay, best of luck getting down to sub 20 minutes :D

Thanks, gonna need it!

The ultimate farming experience!

Thank you!! I needed a keyword like 'pass' but had no idea it existed! Normally I would leave the loop empty but it wouldn't let me. It pained me too. 7 Billion Humans coming up this Friday ;)

I tried once. It turned out to be that typical // now we harvest harvest( ) kind of thing. But I can give it another go!

What an achievement! Thanks