Cargo-Bot Reviews

Fantastic game

Tohfoo

This game is really a breath of fresh air. Impressive how it was built on an iPad too!

I love this game and as a Software Engineer I am excited to see a cool application of teaching software. I would add the one thing that would be great would be the addition of multiple players. By this I mean that my son and two daughters play as well as I do. It would be great if we each had our own save file that way no one would see someone else's solution to a level they hadn't played but others had. Again, great and fun game.

Why wasn't this in new and noteworthy section.

IsoRod

This is an app made on the iPad for the iPad. It's also a educational. Got my four year old to write out the solutions for the first tutorial levels. I think it is fantastic but definitely very hard. I would agree the learn curve should be a bit more gentle. But this is simply amazing. Apple should be promoting this.

awesome game for programmers

acommasplice

If you write code for a living (or as a hobby), you need to get this game. It's fun and very challenging coming up with solutions that fit in the amount of space given. Also, it shows off the awesome power of Codea (which I highly recommend) for writing iPad games on the iPad. My advice: ignore the one/two/three stars that it grades you for your solutions on each level -- just solving the levels at all is hard enough!

AWESOME!!!

Alex5630

This is one of the coolest games ever!!!

Can't believe this game is free.

bitsoda

Give Cargo-Bot a spin if you're interested in some wicked brain gymnastics. The puzzles are diabolical, but the feeling of satisfaction derived from whipping up a working solution is second to none. Great app -- very educational too.

disappointing

edudeva

Multi user capability would be nice, not every family can have an ipad for each person. Also, the tutorials are lacking; solutions? Fix and add these things and it would be worth paying for.

Wrong way to measure performance

algorithmbot

First off brilliant idea! App is well designed with good quality. But there is a fatal problem: the app is giving scores based on number of register used, not the total number of steps that are needed to finish the task. This comes down to what we are teaching our children. Is better to write a simple instruction that takes 100 steps to finish, or is it better to write a more complicated instruction that will finish the job in 10 steps? Or, in computer science, do you want to write a three line code that takes one day to finish, or do you want code with 100 lines but will finish the job in 1 minute. You want to evaluate algorithm based on O(n), not lines of code. I will not let my children touch this app, so that they will not learn the wrong mind set. Change the score system to steps based rather than register based, I will rate 5 star.

Best game ever

Tareksakakini

My personal favorite game. Nice concept and beneficial in the same time.

Great idea that needs a little more polish.

Gary Tang

I had a great time playing this game, which has some fabulous ideas. However, there are some minor annoyances that are infinitely magnified when I'm trying to solve challenging (for me, anyway) problems. Not supporting Game Center is also a bummer. Four stars when there is some kind of version control and/or undo feature. Also needed is easier and quicker solution sharing. (Trainyard by Matt Rix is an excellent, excellent example.) Five stars when there are tools for user-designed levels (Again, Trainyard by Matt Rix is fantastic example of this). Maybe users could pay to access these levels (either one time in-app purchase for the feature or subscription), while designing/sharing for free. Personally, I would pay for more levels if/when --and only if/when-- these enhancements are put in. I would also pay for any of the above enhancements. Of course, free/affordable prices are always appreciated. Developers probably don't read stuff here... but congrats and keep up the good work!

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