It is kind of a cross between a Turing machine and befunge. To play you place your program onto the grid and a robot moves across it, with the operations determining how it will move and how its memory string will be affected.

This is my progress so far:

Images of my solutions so far and comments can be found after the break. Spoilers ahead!

Level one, a little too easy

Level 2. Immediately pop a blue off the string and go to the exit. if no blue exists then it fails.

Level 3, Pop 3 blues off the string. ignore reds but if the string ends before 3 blues are found then it fails.

Level 4, Ignore blues but die if it’s a red

Level 5, here we start being able to write to the string. If the first digit is a red then write a red to the end of the string and go to exit, and vice versa for blue.

Level 6, here you have to start using that programming brain because we’re looping. if you follow the control structure you should see the robot dies if there is ever two of the same colour in a row.

Level 7, pretty easy, simply go backwards and forwards writing the correct colours.

Bored of writing for now, might fill these in later

That should update you whenever there are live streams going on. I’ve also changed the fallback music a lot now to be more what I’m into at the moment.

You can listen to it here:

download the .m3u playlist

You’ll need a player capable of listening to vorbis streams (VLC, MPlayer, Winamp, FooBar all confirmed to work)

You can see the project page here to download the game.

Voting ends tonight so we’ll be able to see how we did. You can see a video of the game here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQrzsNs6br4

#!/bin/bash
#Make dump of the database from mysql
mysqldump --user=dbuser --password=dbpass --databases dbname --opt --quote-names --complete-insert | bzip2 -c > /tmp/dbbackup.bz2

#Move yesterdays backup to .old, just in case we want to keep it for some reason
mv /home/user/backup.tar.gz /home/user/backup.tar.gz.old

#tar up all the files
tar -cf /home/user/backup.tar /path/to/some/data /path/to/more/data /tmp/dbbackup.bz2

#compress them
gzip -9 /home/user/backup.tar

#Split the files up into 5mb chunks called backup.aa, backup.ab, backup.ac etc.
split -b 5m /home/user/backup.tar.gz /home/user/pieces/backup.

cd /home/user/pieces
FILES="*.*"
for f in $FILES
do
        #uuencode the file and send it as an attachment
        uuencode $f $f | mail mybackupmailaddress@googlemail.com
done

Recovering your backups requires downloading all the pieces for that day(this is the longest part of the process) and performing:

cat backup.* > backup.tar.gz