Programming puzzle template: build it step by step
Three commands, one task, a run that fails visibly, a fix. No second puzzle. The AI logic puzzle maker is the rule you are making the player execute.
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The sentence you type
"Make a programming puzzle. Start with one task, three commands and a run button."
The brief the AI writes back
First playable: one task, three commands and a run button. The loop to get right: read the task, build the program, run it, fix it.
Build, play, adjust
Compare with the games that define the genre: Human Resource Machine (Tomorrow Corporation, 2015), TIS-100 (Zachtronics, 2015) and Opus Magnum (Zachtronics, 2017).
What makes it finished
A wrong program fails in a place you can see, and a short program succeeds at the one task.
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