🐞 Find the Broken Rule
Here's a secret nobody tells you: things break all the timewhen you build. 🐞 A hero floats away, a jump stops working, left becomes right. That's not you failing — that's just Tuesday.
The real skill isn't never breaking things. It's knowing how to hunt down the broken bit and fix it. That's called debugging.
The big idea: a bug is one wrong rule
When a game misbehaves, it almost never means the whole thing is broken. Usually it's one tiny rule with the wrong value — and everything else is working perfectly. Your job is to find that one thing.
Good debuggers always do the same three steps. Read the symptom: what exactly is going wrong? Find the cause: which rule could make that happen — what value looks weird? Fix it, then test again to be sure. Symptom → cause → fix. Do that and no bug can hide from you. 🔦
Your turn: hunt the bug
Each round, the hero is misbehaving because one rule is broken. Test the hero with the arrow keys, look at the three rules, and click the one you think is wrong to fix it. Three bugs to squash!
Click the game, then use ← → and ↑ / Space to test what the hero does. Bug 1 of 3.
🔎 Find the broken rule
Test the hero, then click the rule you think is wrong.
Discovery missions
Try each one, tick it off, then peek at the secret.
🎈On the first bug, the hero floats up forever. Test it, then scan the three rules. Which value looks weird?
🔴Look at the rule values. The broken one is shown in red. What does that tell you about bugs?
🕵️Squash all three bugs: the floaty hero, the stuck jump, and the backwards run.
🤷Click a rule you're NOT sure about. What happens when you guess wrong?
🌙Think back to “Build With AI,” when moon gravity was way too floaty and you asked for a fix.
🌟 New thinking tool unlocked! You now know:
- 🐞 A bug is usually one small wrong rule — not everything being broken.
- 🔎 Debug in 3 steps: read the symptom → find the cause → fix it.
- 🔴 Hunt for the ONE value that doesn't fit (negative gravity, zero jump…).
- 🤷 Guessing wrong is fine — you just keep testing ideas.
- 🛠️ Even pros debug constantly; it's a normal part of building.