"cannot read file build of undefined" :/

Fun, cute little game! Perfectly enjoyable for adults too. I look forward to chapter 2+!

If I have one criticism, on the Android port there is no way to zoom in and make the level larger, and it already is quite small on the part of the screen that's not the code window. Also, having finished the game I'm no longer able to access my save file, other than to watch the credits.

Sem versão nativa pro GNU/Linux... =\

I've run into a level that I do not seem to be able to finish. When I reach what should be the exit for the level, nothing happens, as if I were just on a normal space. Nobody else has mentioned it, so maybe it's something weird with my computer. Picture of level:

Hi, I got the game in the Palestinian Aid Bundle as well, and have been greatly enjoying the game thus far. However, I ran into a problem on one of the levels. It is the second level where the shadow self appears, and I can't find a solution to reach the portal. I can't kill the shadow self, and because they are doing the exact same thing the pc is doing, I cannot make my way to the portal. There has been no advice on dealing with the shadowself, and I've tried so many solutions. Idk if this is a bug or if I'm just stupid. Here's a pic of the level too, if that helps.

I got this game from the Palestinian Aid bundle, and already have years of experience programming. I understood immediately that this was a programming game for kids, and played through to see how I felt about it. This game is awesome! You teach logic to solve the puzzle levels while also teaching sequential programming with loops, and helper functions, even recursive helper functions. I just want to say well done!! If I had played this game growing up, I probably would've gotten into programming languages at a much younger age. 

Cannot wait to play this game!!! I think I'll gain a lot from it. I have trouble programming a lot of the time because of my brain damage making it hard to think straight. I think this game is AMAZING and will help me understand ways I can make code less confusing to me!!

My daughter is loving this game. We just got stuck on the first level where the dad is kidnapped. What's the objective? We reach the end but it doesn't seem possible to make it to the glowing circle before the copter. The copter is not attackable...?

I love the game! As someone who teaches coding to kids, I appreciate not only the clarity of the code itself, but the lovely art and story (which is often missing in these type of coding teaching games).

I found one level design "bug" (with potential for more similar ones). Should I just comment that, or is there another communication channel for such things?

Well, back to solving levels :D

I'm not knowledgeable in much regarding computers, but after the file was downloaded I clicked to launch the .msi file and windows popped up warning that this could affect my computer's performance or just overall be a malicious. I realize windows warns against a lot of safe things, I'm sure this is one of them, I just wanted to double check and make sure that it's completely safe for me to download. 

Codemancer is up for an award, and I'd really appreciate it if you could vote for us! https://t.co/W4GDQe9maf?amp=1. It only takes a few seconds. Thank you!

Just starting, so I can't comment on the game itself yet, but I find it jarring that, in the Itch Desktop App, the files are set up in such a way that "installing" the game apparently just downloads it, and you "launch" the installer, not the game itself. That would normally be an annoyance, but in a coding game, it feels a lot more wrong. Maybe someone needs to poke the install package?

Cool game. I'm 17 and finished it in 3 hours (maybe more?) and:

I think the part where you use an "army" is much more difficult than the "shadowy one" mechanic. So i don't think the game actually escalates in difficulty. Wich, to me, it's not a big deal. 

Also, there's a lil 'bug': there's a level where a puppet needs to hit the lever so that 'dad' can go through. But I am able to entrance(?) the puppet so that he does nothing and i catch up to dad and hit im on the but with my face.

I'm no good in talking good about games, so if you want someone to tell you why this is good, go to the other comments

The steam page says that it's available in German, French and Spanish as well, however I couldn't find a way to change languages in the Android version. I would love to play this game with my daughter, however, she doesn't speak English (yet)... Are the other languages available on Android?

Edit: Okay, I saw the update at the very top that says that the Mac & PC versions have the translations. So I'll update my question as well: Will they come to Android eventually?

This game is absolutely fantastic. I mean, I've been programming since childhood myself, so there was nothing new here in terms of learning for me. But the game is a delight anyway. The art and voice acting are excellent. This is exactly the kind of game I wish had been around when I was younger. I absolutely cannot wait until the next chapter.

Found a bug: When I leveled up to "Level 2" the animation showed me now having 4 hearts of health, but in the actual levels I still have only 3.

Awesome game! I am both a programmer and an educator and recently found this when donating for the racial justice bundle. Your game is so far the best one I've found for childrens.

Any chance we could get a Linux version? I mean, after all, it’s a programming game, I imagine that’s a fair amount of your demographic here…

Been greatly enjoying the game so far, but I've run into a number of bugs. Two of the ones I've run into crop up quite often:

1. Voice lines don't always play properly, and sometimes clicking too early into a scene will screw up the sprite's positioning (as in, clicking to fast forward the text while the sprite is still moving around sometimes makes the sprite stop moving before it reaches the right place and be stuck halfway offscreen.)

2. Fast forward screws up the code. If you have more than two or three things on screen running your own code, the parser will skip steps entirely, meaning that sometimes you can't beat a level if you try to run it in fast forward. This is not consistent, it skips different steps every time, but the more stuff you have running (and the higher fast forward you're at) the worse it gets.

Also worth noting: the "dad capture chase" level in the forest? I broke it. You can cut off the helicopter thing's escape through clever use of the cast rune, I can provide details if you need.

Hi there! Love the game! Is there any chance of either a Linux port, or just an upload of the straight windows version? Wine doesn't play well with msi installers unfortunately.

Thanks!

this is a great little game - found it in the bundle and it's the first thing in there I decided to play! wish I'd had this when I was 12, it would have taught me a lot better than Basic. Very much looking forward to the next chapter. just wanted to report a couple bugs and offer a bit of feedback.

definitely a bug: I ran into some weird graphics issues on Windows 7, using an nVidia card updated with the brand new driver (I updated earlier tonight). it would occasionally lose or duplicate the star button where you activate commands, and I would have to go out of the level and back in to reset. I also had weird little glitchy graphical remnants show up in one case. 

might be a bug or maybe I just missed something: In one of the last few levels, where there's several trees in a vertical line that you have to get a puppet to kill for you, if you program the puppet to attack 4 times and then jump into the spot it just cleared, it sometimes fails to do so. telling it to jump twice reliably gets it to the next square. 

possibly intentional?: spells 1-5 don't reset to blanks at the beginning of a new level like spell 0 does.

also, I actually managed to beat the thing carrying my father in one of the last few levels (and then the game acted like he'd been dragged off ahead of me anyway).

feedback:

I think the age range cited is a little low for the difficulty/ramp up speed and complexity, especially with this just being chapter 1! It got challenging by the end for me, and I'm an Xennial who got Logo and a little Basic at around 10-12, and some Java in college. I'm not sure most 6 year olds even have the necessary level of cognitive development to handle running 4 'spells' at once.

I'd personally love a for-older-teens-to-adults version, that just adds a text window explaining how this stuff corresponds to real programming using Python. This is SO much better than having to try to learn from dry books, and getting to see both at once would really help bridge to the real thing.

After I download, Windows 10 says "Codemancer.msi was blocked because it could harm your device"

So I started to really enjoy the game, when I got to the level where a certain flying drone is flying to a certain blue flame, and I got stuck - I get next to it, but then I do not know what to do - attacking doesn't help, jumping on it doesn't work, and there's no hints to what to do there... and it looks practically impossible to get to the blue flame before the drone...

Help needed - I can't find how to open the game?
I downloaded the msi file and installed it, but can't find any way to open the actual game from the installer - what am I supposed to do to get into the actual game? Do I need another app or something?

Gameplay feedback-

I am Red-Green color defficient.  I've played about 10 mins so far, and I was wondering how much health the little bug guys had, cause I didn't see their health indicated anywhere.  So I looked a bit harder, and noticed that they DO have a health indicator, right below them!  I just couldn't see them easily because it's red on green.

It's a fun game so far, but it would be cool to have a colorblind alternate for important UI features, or just more clear contrast.

Another bug report for you.
This one is present on the Windows version and the Android version.

At this point we would expect to hear a "He's gone!" voice line, but instead we hear the "Teaching magic?" voice line again.

Loving the game and how it is presented!

I'm playing the Android version and I think I've run into a bug.

I'm at level 1 of the forest area

Completing this vertical level takes me on to this triangular level:

But completing the triangular level takes me back to the vertical level again.

Edit: Oh, my mistake. It's not the same level, just a very similar looking level. Didn't notice the difference on my little phone screen.

Been playing for 15 minutes, my brain hurts, I hope I can get a little smarter. Cool game, kudos to the creators.

Nice artwork, great gameplay, now we can learn and play at the same time, a game for everybody especially the young ones.