Pragmatica

By: Derek Yu

On: May 16th, 2011

Pragmatica is a nifty puzzle game from HiVE, a team that includes Srehpog (Ark 22, Umbrella Adventure). The goal is simple: in each level, program robots with conditional statements so that they make their way safely to the exits. It gets a lot more challenging, however, as the game introduces hazards, switches, crates, bombs, and multiple control groups of robots to the mix. A built-in map maker lets you create and share your own levels.

TIGdb: Entry for Pragmatica

Posted in Freeware, Puzzle, Windows | Tags: HiVE, Srehpog

Banana

First comment!
Narvius

Damn you. I'm not done with SpaceChem yet!
Davide "Gendo Ikari" Mascolo

Oh good, featured here too! Unfortunately it's getting less attention that it would deserve IMO. The “seminary” sets the game's atmosphere very nicely.
Sean A

Yeah glad this got frontpaged, really fun game
rinkuhero

this game is good, though i didn't get too far in it yet. i do hope the story gets more developed as i progress (from the “intro” to the game it seemed there was a lot of potential for the development of a dystopic story in it about robots and mechanization and so on)
Lukasaurus

Using this in the classroom to teach conditional statements and logic structures. Cool find! Teaching a unit on Robotics (using Lego NXT & NXT-G) and this is a really good intro to some of the concepts students need to know (and it relates to the actual programming of Robots to boot).
http://www.wearehive.com/ HiVE

Thanks for the post, Derek! Much appreciated. :)

Lukasaurus, that's great news! We've had a couple of reports like this – could we ask you to send us an email (e.g. on http://www.wearehive.com/?&… so we can contact you for more details? We're really interested to see how Pragmatica can be used in a serious context and would love to have a chat with you about this further.
dimasteinar

very nice game!