light bot

Great game in Action Script. Maybe the simplest way to teach basic algorithm development skills ever.

Drag and drop actions (icons) into the sequence to create a small program.

Your goal is to light the lamp over special blue areas.

And "programming" of the game can go pretty sophisticated, that is functional (see the following picture):



Idea behind is pretty cool, although not new. There are a lot of cases where games exploit mechanical scenarios and achieve amazing resembles of certain automaton model with questionable equivalence to some Turing Machine.