while True: learn()

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6.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 6 out of 22

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  1. lleonardogr
    Dec 11, 2019
    10
    A perfect game to make Machine Learning fun. And with scientific explanation among the game, makes it a good start point to who interested for Data Science
  2. tladtbogt
    Dec 5, 2021
    1
    This game punish you if you make something creative. Exist only one right solution. Solutions what developers make, and everything else is wrong. In this type of game this shouldn't be.
  3. orfeo34
    Dec 10, 2021
    2
    Good artwork and interesting subject but "coding" in this puzzle game is as dumb as the manager of your company would expect it to be. Just link three functions and Boom! You made a disruptive startup... This interpretation of machine learning is more a marketing buzzword than something realistic.
  4. WOLFIEKIDD
    Aug 4, 2020
    0
    The game gives you next to 0 help. The logic jumps are large and the only help in game is a useless ad riddled blog. The game has just came out on PS4 after the PC release 2 years earlier. The videos on YouTube are all based on the PC version and the values are not the same,so some setups which are correct and will pass the level on PC will not pass on PS after 2 days of messing around andThe game gives you next to 0 help. The logic jumps are large and the only help in game is a useless ad riddled blog. The game has just came out on PS4 after the PC release 2 years earlier. The videos on YouTube are all based on the PC version and the values are not the same,so some setups which are correct and will pass the level on PC will not pass on PS after 2 days of messing around and trying to watch videos and learn about the game so I can get gold medals. Just to find out it is impossible ... After accepting 3 bronze medals with no real knowledge on why I was failing them (I assumed if I brought better hardware they would Improve if I re done the level but I cannot confirm if that's true because the game is unplayable) I then decided to follow a YouTube gold medal for the level cyber initiative as this one I could just not pass.

    https://youtu.be/6RVxZ_erzpM

    This link will show you how to get gold BUT PC
    Output 0 is 30
    Output 1 is 18
    Output 3 is 30
    Output 4 is 22


    Ps
    output 0 is 34 Output 1 is 16
    Output 3 is 27
    Output 4 is 21

    The value changes of the output windows are enough for you to fail the level even after following a video.

    I then continued for another half an hour to try to get 3 more into the correct output.
    Now since doing that all icons on the screen have gone black you cannot use any buttons apart from the test run, which obviously fails the mission .(unplayable)

    I have closed and opened and reloaded save files for the screen to still be black.

    In all honesty although it was a cheap game, I would like my money back.

    PROS Nice idea.
    If it worked it...

    Cons
    Little advice on what you are supposed to be doing.

    A useless blog is recommended every 1/4 of a second, it would be more acceptable if the blog was helpful in anyway.

    The values have changed from the PC version so even finding a YouTube video will not help you pass the game.

    If you repeatedly try to test run(because you looked up the answer and it should work)
    You will repeatedly fail until the screen goes black and you are just left with the HUD which cannot be interacted with, even upon restarting of the computer.

    I thought the game would help me get familiar or at least have some understanding on coding and was a big waste of time. It's not a good game, more disappointing than No man's sky.    … Expand
  5. MO_KUN
    Dec 5, 2021
    9
    If you are interested in coding, development, and programming, you have to play this game. it's a masterpiece.
  6. Diptanshu
    Jun 7, 2022
    9
    The music is soothing and the art work is a piece, Puzzles were amazing and as per me the programmer, the machine learning logical implementation aspect is nicely done. Overall its a calm and relaxing and addictive game, highly recommanded for CS fields.
  7. Demiurge11
    Dec 12, 2022
    6
    This is a 2D puzzle game where you drag-and-drop components and connect them together. I liked it enough to play through the entire game, but the game has many problems that drag it down.

    THE GOOD: - The pipe-and-filter style puzzles are a fresh take on the puzzle genre. They are generally fun, and it can be quite challenging to achieve a gold medal on each puzzle. - I like cats, cats    This is a 2D puzzle game where you drag-and-drop components and connect them together. I liked it enough to play through the entire game, but the game has many problems that drag it down.

    THE GOOD:
    - The pipe-and-filter style puzzles are a fresh take on the puzzle genre. They are generally fun, and it can be quite challenging to achieve a gold medal on each puzzle.
    - I like cats, cats are a major theme of the game, they are cute
    - Cute ending!

    THE BAD:
    - There is one song on loop for the whole game
    - The game's story is cute, but irrelevant. You get rewarded with tidbits of advancement as you solve puzzles, but the puzzles have nothing to do with your goal.
    - The game promises coding and machine learning, but delivers neither. What it *does* give you is pipes and filters. You can look up "pipe and filter architecture" if you don't know what I mean.
    - The supposed machine learning is not even simplified machine learning. For example, the machine learning components get trained by magic without needing to evaluate their outputs. It makes training them boring and pointless.
    - The text introductions to each puzzle are hard to understand *and* pointless. They very rarely have *anything* to do with the puzzle.
    - The English tutorials and explanations are *very* hard to understand. Since the puzzles have nothing to do with machine learning, there is no way to figure out how machine learning works through practical experience.
    - Startups are very poorly done. They are badly explained and provide very little useful feedback on what you've done right or wrong. The potential solution is so dumbed down from the text description of the problem that it's impossible to intuit solutions. See spoilers below for a bigger explanation.
    - The driving simulators are also extremely confusing. See spoilers below.
    - Doing puzzles can get repetitive since the pipes and filters are very consistent from one puzzle to the next. I usually didn't play for more than an hour or two at a time.
    - You can save your setup in the level, but there is no corresponding load button. It's not clear that you can only load a saved configuration in future levels as a sub-component.
    - This game seems to be marketing itself as a STEM game, encouraging children to do science, but really it does nothing to teach machine learning or programming, and so fails utterly in this.

    THE UGLY:
    - Some of the puzzle introductions cover military or spying applications that seem immoral, which is an odd thing to see in an otherwise very sweet and cute game.

    MINOR SPOILERS:
    - It took me a *long* time to understand the startups! I didn't even understand what the goal was. I believe you have two main goals: (1) To consume *all* of the inputs, and fill in *all* of the outputs, and (2) prevent any traffic jams, and thus allow a constant stream of input to flow through your solution. Hint: avoid using any load balancers as they cost money and make the startup unprofitable. After releasing your solution, if you've done things right, within a few days the startup should be making money! You've finished! The only number that matters is your daily profit. Once that goes into the negative you sell, and usually make a modest profit.
    - The driving simulations don't make a lot of sense. In the early ones you just succeed automatically. In the later ones the only thing you can do is fiddle with the settings, if you pick the wrong settings you fail. Just play with the initial settings until you succeed.    … Expand
  8. Ash_HeLiX
    Jan 22, 2023
    6
    крайне простая головоломка по сортировке, позалипать пойдет
  9. SphericalC
    Dec 9, 2021
    9
    Very fun game. A bit difficult in the beginning, but you get the hang of it.
  10. TTVHeadshot56
    Dec 14, 2021
    6
    As a programmer myself, i appreciate the game as a learning tool. But the gameplay itself is not very fun for more than an hour or two. The game seems like a never-ending tutorial as you keep getting prompts all the time. The "puzzles" are not too challenging either. Overall, it's a decent game if you want to spend an hour or so feeling productive while you learn but as a game it fails toAs a programmer myself, i appreciate the game as a learning tool. But the gameplay itself is not very fun for more than an hour or two. The game seems like a never-ending tutorial as you keep getting prompts all the time. The "puzzles" are not too challenging either. Overall, it's a decent game if you want to spend an hour or so feeling productive while you learn but as a game it fails to hold your attention for very long, and there is little to no incentive to re-play it.… Expand
  11. mindsdesire
    Jan 9, 2022
    2
    IMO the tutorial is totally insufficient for you to be able to continue playing the following stages and simply leaves you adrift.
  12. Jollyolfun
    Nov 18, 2022
    6
    i bought this game before quarantine hoping to make me a smart man and it wasnt that great

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73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Mar 20, 2019
    82
    Studio managed to do the impossible: turn a difficult subject that's of interest only to specialists, into a product that doesn't feel like "edutainment", but rather like a touching indie game. [Issue#236, p.37]
  2. TheSixthAxis
    Mar 11, 2019
    70
    while True: Learn () is a novel and interesting puzzle game that is well worth a look for anyone interested in the thought processes behind computer coding. The comprehensive history of machine learning is a fascinating context, and the quest to teach a computer to understand the thinking process of a cat is as silly as it is effective.
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  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    Feb 19, 2019
    60
    Don't expect much from the visuals, music, or story in while True: learn() and simply appreciate it for its puzzles.
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