Hacked (phone game review)

[woodpijn]

I've been playing a programming-puzzle game on my phone called Hacked, and enjoying it a lot. It feels really good to be coding again, to be thinking algorithmically, to go "OK, how will I code this?" and then "Let's figure out exactly how it's not working and fix it." I hadn't realised how much I missed that. I've hardly coded anything since I

Comments

[andrewducker]

Whenever I read these things I think "Hey, that could be fun."

And then I think "Hang on, I could just write some actual code, and get some project stuff working."

(Not that I think that coding games are a bad idea, or object to other people playing them.)

[woodpijn]

Yeah, I probably wouldn't be as interested in playing it if I had some actual coding projects on the go. But not having the time or energy or inspiration to start any, the game is a good way to exercise the same sort of brain pathways.
(Then again, Alex enjoys it too and he does have coding projects, at work and at home.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, the puzzle element is probably stronger for some people, and enough to push it into being enough fun to play as a game.