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Yup, assuming the Finale with rob is all there is to it. A couple of them were trickier (like in level 9, it was really not clear at all what the right output was supposed to be at first), but none of them seemed all that hard. None of them actually felt "fun".

I think it mostly felt less polished due to things like the lack of music and the fact that Go itself is a bad language for this sort of thing.

In Untrusted, there were often places where you could monkey-patch objects and come up with really creative solutions. There were some problems that I felt like I really had freedom to be creative.

In this game, the imports were always out of bounds for editing, so I could never pull in 'unsafe' and have any real fun. All the solutions felt far too restrictive. Sure, there were multiple ways to hack around things, but it never felt like there was room for a spark of real creative joy.

I think go is just a bad language for "fun". It's not optimized for being able to write interesting or elegant code. It's not optimized for having fun.

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// readCodesFromKeypad - get codes from keypad input func readCodesFromKeypad() []string { var passcode string var codes = make([]string, 0) // Agent Getter - bypass keypad input // codes := streamKeypad() // Agent Getter - try brute force login // TODO: not finished, someone's coming... // use shadowed "passcode" to avoid unused var error return append([]string{passcode}, unshadowedMethod()...}[1:] } func unshadowedMethod() []string { codes := []string{passcode} return codes }