LD51: Punch card programmer wanted


With the brand new, state of the art computer that costed 2000$, you too can now become a punch card programmer.


Each column is one instruction or data point. With Data pressed you can punch the necessary task input numbers, then with Data off you punch the instructions needed to solve the problem. Use Shift to get access to more instructions.

But to the machine data is code and code is data. You’ll notice the card can only punch numbers from 0 to 9. If you need 12 type for ex the instructions 93+. Once you punched a card add it to the source deck that will be executed. You can sort the cards there. Good luck! The future needs you.


I made this game in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare 51 jam, my first LD ever. You may encounter some bugs! I would greatly appreciate your feedback. Design, art, sounds, programming are done by me. I used the Godot game engine, v.3.5, the JetBrainsMono font and sfxr for sound effects.

Files

The_Stack_Machine_Windows.exe 37 MB
Oct 03, 2022
The_Stack_Machine_Linux.x86_64 39 MB
Oct 03, 2022

Get JAM: The Stack Machine

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