A Programming Puzzle About a Forgotten Machine

Place instructions on a two-dimensional grid, run the machine, and discover your own solution.

Programming Puzzle · PC · Steam

The Machine

One Machine.
Countless Solutions.

Build programs directly on the grid. Place instructions, start the machine, and watch your program come alive.

01 BUILD

PROGRAM LAYOUT

Place instructions directly onto the grid and build your program spatially.

02 EXECUTE

MACHINE RUNNING

Start the machine and watch your program execute instruction by instruction.

How It Works

Instructions are not written line by line. Their position, direction and relationship on the grid define how the machine executes your program.

Program Layout

01 / PLACE

Build your program by placing instructions directly onto the machine's grid. Direction and position are part of the logic.

Machine Running

02 / RUN

Follow the cursor as the machine reads, transforms, compares and outputs data. Every step of your program is visible.

Solution Analysis

03 / REFINE

A puzzle rarely has only one answer. Rewrite your layout, reduce execution steps, and discover your own approach.

The Story

In your father's study lies a machine you once believed was only a story.

Yellowed manuscripts, letters, recordings and experiment logs carry the notes of generations of researchers.

As you solve its puzzles, you begin to uncover what the Grid Computing Machine was — and why it was forgotten.

Some explorations may ultimately prove impractical.
That does not make them worthless.

Start the Machine

Add CodeGrid to your Steam wishlist and follow the development of the Grid Computing Machine.