Lightbot : Programming Puzzles
Lightbot is a programming puzzle game: a puzzle game that uses game mechanics that are firmly rooted in programming concepts.
Lightbot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like procedures, loops, and conditionals, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels. Ideal for ages 8+
Teachers and parents worldwide are choosing Lightbot first out of other games and software when introducing kids to programming.
Lightbot features 50 levels and 20 challenge stars to collect and is a must-have for puzzle enthusiasts of any age.
This version of Lightbot lets you play in English, French, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Indonesian, German, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Hindi or Swedish! Just hit the associated flag icon on the main screen to select a language!
NEW: Exclusive to Google Play, Lightbot now features multiple save slots and separate progress tracking for multiple players. Multiple players can advance at their own pace in their own save slot, and also compete on number of levels finished, number of stars collected and number of overall commands used to complete the game (Lower score=better)
1: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/technology/personaltech/get-cracking-on-learning-computer-code.html2: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/26/light-bot-teaches-computer-science-with-a-cute-little-robot-and-some-symbol-based-programming/3: http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2015/01/05/code-and-college-readiness-are-reinventing-education-on-30-under-30/
Category : Puzzle
Reviews (27)
It's a great concept but the lack of an undo button is driving me nuts and the art style is a bit lacking (although - it was released 7 years ago already, so...).
Freeway game but just discovered that if purchased a schools back, not eligible for family library!? I don't know if this can be changed but please put the date back. Otherwise great!
Great. This is one of my favorite tools to teach coding logic to 6-8 year olds
It's good but there should be more levels to keep kids engaged. As is, it just lasts a few hours.
Challenging puzzles. Completed them all and hope for a sequel.
Great game that can provide good learning opportunities for code structuring!
This game is way too easy and there are not enough levels. Waste of money
Too short and too easy to justify the price.
It would be best if we can create our own arena and challenge others
Great way to teach programming... Excellent app
Fantastic coding puzzles!
very good but need more levels
Good but not enough
Great app, only giving 4 stars because I feel it needs some sort of hints system for when you get stuck....sometimes I just have no idea what to do and in order to pass the level I have to look up a solution, which takes away the challenge aspect because most resources just tell you how to pass the level without much explanation as to why. Would be nice to get hints when you are stuck so you can get help without just having the answers given to you. Great app, will change to 5 star if hint system is added
4 stars because it is a great game, but most of the levels are trivially easy and solved instantly. Only a few are actually challenging. They need to take the last section and create several more that are harder. Also they could focus a little more on code efficiency and a little less on squeezing into specific limitations. Maybe there should be some levels with a limited total number of commands but you can put them in any number of functions.
This game has it all! The concept is straightforward and easy to understand, yet the puzzles can be challenging even for grownups. It does a great job at introducing coding concepts without becoming to code oriented. It has no IAP's, it doesn't have ads, it doesn't have pop-ups asking you to rate the game or like it on FB. It just delivers some excellent quality puzzling fun. Worth every penny and definitely worth 5 stars.
It would be great if somehow one could see or be hinted at the optimum solution after solving one of the difficult puzzles, as I feel at the last ones I have gone quite by chance and trial and error.
Fantastic little game but more levels would be greatly appreciated. Even some random ones that may not be solvable would provide a nice challenge.
Mainly for children to learn programming concepts through a game, but equally fun for grown ups
Really neat. I'm dieing to see you create more levels
The game is really good, but too short. Please make other levels or level editor available.
I'm a programmer and this is a great app for teaching people the basics about how to think like a programmer. And it's a lot of fun
Great little game... Bought full version after completing Hour of Code. However, no way of upgrading/unlocking extra challenges in Hour of Code or being able to use saved completed Hour of Code game with new full version. Please advise!
Really wonderful app and my son loves it. But it is missing a key feature to be able to sync between devices. If you want to switch to a new tablet, you will have to start over from level 1. I will be five stars otherwise.
For the price, I expected many more challenges. There's so much unused potential here!
Great little game--teaches basic coding principles, and fun to solve puzzles.
Great game. Well worth the few bucks. It would be good if there was a slow fwd as well as fast fwd so that the player can see where the problem is on the overloading levels. Then you can learn better rather than fix by trial and error. The learning curve is quite steep and it would also be good if there were more levels to cement in the thinking that you need (eg thinking in loops) before getting to the challenging starred puzzles.