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Seriously charming programming puzzler KnotBot is out now

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2020

KnotBot replaces programming lines with a drag and drop interface to solve puzzles, it's not a unique idea but KnotBot has a wonderful style and setting that make it worth a play.

KnotBot, a very sweet looking programming-puzzle game involving knots and strings

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

KnotBot might be one of the sweetest looking puzzle-programming type of games I've ever seen. A game where you give a little robot directions across a bunch of hand-crafted levels.

Selfless Heroes, a sweet programming-puzzle game where you help heroes in a dungeon - with source code available

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2020

A wonderful little programming-puzzle game here with Selfless Heroes, tasking you with helping heroes travel through a dungeon and avoid dangers.

GNOME launches a 'Community Engagement Challenge' with cash prizes

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2020

With an idea to help get beginner coders interested in FOSS, and to help improve coding skills, the GNOME Foundation has teamed up with Endless for a Community Engagement Challenge.

Struggling with regular expressions? Then visit 'Regex Crossword', a site to learn them through a Sudoku-like game

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 1 Apr 2020

Regular expressions are often difficult for anyone to get their head around and so Regex Crossword turns learned them into a bit of a game.

Screeps Arena, an upcoming strategy game where you program your units with JavaScript

By Liam Dawe, 9 Aug 2019

Screeps Arena is a game for programming enthusiasts, as you get to design your own AI using JavaScript to have 1 on 1 battles.

Programming puzzle game 'Robo Instructus' to release July 16th

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2019

Fancy a bit of programming to solve some puzzles? Robo Instructus is exactly what you want then and it's releasing next month on July 16th with Linux support.

Create your AI, pick your robots and prepare for battle as Gladiabots has left Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 23 May 2019

Gladiabots makes me feel dumb, very dumb. It asks you to create various AI and assign them to robots, to face off against another team of robots in a battle arena.

The puzzle game 'Robo Instructus' will have you control a robot with simple programming

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2019

For those who love their puzzles and their programming, Robo Instructus from developer Big AB Games was just announced.

Monstrous programming puzzle game 'Monster Logic' is coming to Linux this year

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2019

While it has no clear release date other than this year, Monster Logic certainly looks like a sweet programming puzzle game that's coming to Linux.

Puzzling machine learning puzzler 'while True: learn()' recently left Early Access and it's good

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2019

while True: learn() is a puzzle game about machine learning, neural networks, big data and AI and something about a cat.

EXAPUNKS, the latest Zachtronics puzzler is now available with Linux support on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2018

DRM free GOG fans rejoice, now you too can get in on the latest open-ended puzzler from Zachtronics as it hacked its way onto GOG yesterday.

Programming puzzle game God is a Cube: Programming Robot Cubes is now in Early Access, win a copy

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2018

God is a Cube: Programming Robot Cubes is a programming puzzle game currently in Early Access with Linux support, it's actually quite good and we have a few copies to give away.