Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle
Christopher Jarvis Developer
Cinq-Mars Media Publisher
Jul 2021 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Mixed
(55 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:- Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle Depot [190.33 M]
Total Refactor and Overhaul for Catastrophic BacktrackingThe diffs and regex processing now takes place in separate workers independent from the game, so no lag is experienced nor does the game quit if you enter catastrophic regex. Given a top to bottom refactor, please expect a few new bugs to crop up! I put the old build on the beta branch for the moment in case you need to go back for whatever reason. Thanks for the continued feedback and support!
[ 2021-06-05 12:24:16 CET ] [ Original post ] Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and sanitize text for your wacky and demanding publishers who perpetually find themselves in turmoil over comical errors that arise in a variety of old manuscripts that need to be reprinted.
Like its spiritual predecessor, The Devil's Calculator, no familiarity with advanced or even intermediate concepts is assumed, rudiments are learned through gentle tutorials but the focus is always on tactics and lateral thinking. While you will no doubt learn valuable RegEx skills, it is primarily used a pre-text for these sophisticated and rewarding logic puzzles. Game mechanics permit such playful obstructions as a limited number of rules, certain keyboard keys not working for particular levels, and an embellishment of RegEx that extends to Natural Language Processing allowing you to discriminate on criteria like sentiment analysis, stems and parts of speech.
Optimization is a big part of Copy Editor, and you can see how well you stack up to others with detailed histograms of your performance, the number of rules required to sanitize the text as well as the number of chars needed. In this way it is similar to RegEx Golf but far more elaborate and nuanced, since text replacement is of equal importance. A fully formed level editor will allow you to pose your own challenges to the community.
MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Ubuntu or Other Distro
- Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processorMemory: 500 MB RAM
- Memory: 500 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 100 MB available space
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