But that kind of thing is totally normal and harmless :) Just to check, did you notice that programs can start from any time slot, and they’ll basically do the right thing when looping. (So if you have two programs of length 4, with A starting on cycle 1 and B on cycle 2, you get an execution of 1: A1, 2:A2B1, 3: A3B2, 4:A4B3, 5:A1B4, 6:A2B1, etc).
Ah. That sounds odd indeed, especially this early on. There’s a couple of later puzzles where a competitive solution requires writing out the full execution with no looping. Those puzzles are the worst.
I didn’t, I think the size of the resulting GIFs just varies wildly depending on the solution. The Refined Gold one I posted was too big and I had to upload it to imgur and post the link here, the Face Powder one was small enough to upload here directly.
I bet jsnell has a better answer, but your 1 and 2 arms have a 4-instruction cycle, and your 3 and 4 arms have a 10-instruction cycle. So you’ll have to repeat your 1 and 2 arms 5 times, and your 3 and 4 arms twice, so everything comes out 20 instructions. As he mentioned earlier, they don’t all have to start on the same cycle (vertical column); they’ll all repeat at the end of whatever the longest one is. At least I think that’s how it works.
I’m pretty sure you’re right, but it just doesn’t feel intuitive. Sometimes the coding stays nice and simple with how the lines repeat and sometimes it is just a mess.
No point in posting the animation, it’s a very similar layout (just pushing rather than rotating some with some of the arms). But this is what I had for the program:
I’m still iterating over Stabilized Water! At this rate, it’s going to take me forever to finish the game.
Can some of you Opus Magnum wizards fire me a friend request on Steam? I’m “Periastron” there, same as here. I like having competitive leaderboard targets to shoot for. :)