0. Intro

A mechanical mind. A forgotten land. A quest for beauty in numbers.
Marches & Gnats is a fantastical game of programming challenges set in 19th-century Estonia, where each challenge is both a story and a test of your computational ingenuity. Craft precise instructions for the Logic Mill—a secret mechanical Turing machine—and help Mihkel, a quiet genius of Dorpat, turn the hidden order of the world into working code.

Each week, Mihkel encounters a new puzzle—some born of the land, some whispered by folklore, and others still sprung from the very tension between nature and number. As he tunes the Logic Mill and refines its language, so too do you. Together, you will translate muddy peasant requests and lofty academic riddles into precise, elegant instructions.

For this is not a game of answers, but of methods. Of building universals from particulars. Of seeing, even in the gnats that buzz by the river, a trace of logic’s great march.