Thread 715424236

NEW ZACHTRONICS GAAAAAEEMMM

>>715424236 (OP)
Finishing up TIS-100 before I play it.

>>715425935
This is more like Opus Magnum + Infinifactory
If you like TIS you should try Shenzhen and Exapunks

>>715426107
Yeah I have completed all the levels for Shenzhen I/O and Exapunks already. Hope Zach makes another programming game with this new studio because I found Opus Magnum kinda boring.

>>715424236 (OP)
I hope they make the story sections completely skippable even just trying to mash through them feels bad

>>715426218
I also prefer the programming ones, but Ifinifactory is really good, you should try it

>>715424236 (OP)
why does the soldering happen BETWEEN those two solder-looking things on the right?

didn't this guy quit gamedev to be a teacher? guess he came back?

>>715426639
Yeah it's shit
>>715426719
That's where the current goes through

>>715424236 (OP)
wait what?
I thought they closed shop since Zach wanted to be a wagie teacher?

>>715426742
>>715426838
I think they just wanted to form a new company so they could retain ownership of new IPs, all the old ones are owned by some fag corp now

>>715426838 (me)
well well well, look who came crawling back.
THANK YOU!

Am I missing something or is Infinifactory a terrible Zach-like?
You don't get to grab the inputs when you need them, so optimization consists of increasing the speed and hoping nothing breaks and building long belts to act as a buffer.

wtf is zachtronics

>>715427414
autism sims

>>715427141
Just get good at it

>>715427414
The original creators of Minecraft.

>>715427414
one of the guys who made Factorio

>>715426218
>Zach makes another programming game
Same. I like the quality and polish that zachtronics games have but Turing Complete is the most fun I've had in the genre.

>>715427745
>look up turing complete
>oh that looks nice
>fuck

>>715428279
to be fair, the next level of FPGAs isn't fun

>>715428279
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1444480/discussions/0/4416424268930963111/?ctp=2

>>715428279
It ain't Turing complete yet, but there was enough there to justify the price of admission, in my mind. There's not a lot of handholding and some of the mission descriptors are a bit vague, but I recommend it.

>>715427141
you use the basic blocks as a buffer instead of belts. The material rolls on to them, stops, and waits for the next one behind it to push it forward onto the next belt.

>>715428365
>>715428545
>>715428641
How indepth does it get? I wouldn't mind dusting off those cpu arch skills again even though I've made zero use of them sadly

>>715425935
>Game opens a pdf manual for asm instructions
Kino

>>715428743
You get to write your own instruction sets, but I haven't gotten there because I am retarded as fuck. Here's a view of the missions I snapped a while ago.

>>715428870
Whoops, there's more.

>>715428743
don't worry Verilog bro! SURELY AI NPUS will make use of FPGAs!!!!!
Puzzles are pretty in depth (making ICs and script modules),
but you don't have to deal with debouncing or clks

>>715424236 (OP)
I loved Opus Magnum so I'm really excited about this one.

>>715424236 (OP)
WHAT
I thought he hung up his keyboard and disbanded the company? I know he got a hard reality check with the whole teaching thing but I figured he'd just go for early retirement

>>715429208
>I know he got a hard reality check with the whole teaching thing
What happened there? Did he realize how shitty kids are or something?

>>715429257
>Did he realize how shitty kids are or something?
It is the only conclusion to draw from a man saying
>I'm going to give up my profession to nobley pass on my skills to the next generation
And within two years he quits his new teaching job

>>715427141
I like that the blocks are actually coming from somewhere and not just spawning out of thin air. If you want to slow down the rate use grey boxes to create a holdup on the line

>>715429518
>Again, the fantasy didn't live up to reality. "I'm not really cut out to be a teacher, it turns out," Barth admits. "I learned how to program 25 years ago. I can't understand what it's like to just be learning how to program now. I can't do it."
>Which isn't to say he didn't enjoy it. "It was fun. That was really great. That's the thing every teacher always says: the kids are great, the bureaucracy is awful. And it's true."
https://www.pcgamer.com/why-last-call-bbs-is-the-last-call-for-indie-studio-zachtronics/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

man unfortunately I'm more of a shenzen kind of guy then an opus kind of guy
still gonna buy tho. I hope it's less than 20€

When I opened Shenzhen io and it told me to print out a pdf manual I knew I wasn't cut out for this shit

>>715429990
just keep it open on a second monitor.
Or read whatever you need, it takes 2 hours at most to get the info in your head

>>715429990
>he didn't enjoy printing out a zine so he could larp as a leet haxor
Weak.

>>715429990
Maybe start with a more accessible game like Opus magnum?

>>715429990
Just alt-tab between the game and the manuals

>>715424236 (OP)
OH MY MARX THIS IS JUST LIKE MY COMMIE FACTORIES!!!!!!

>>715430503
>Japan
>commie

>>715430503
what the fuck is this commie brainrot?
in ever thread

>>715429257
>one in a billion lifetime chance to rake in a shitton of money
>stuck with a deadend 9-5 with mutt kids coming from low battery smoke alarm households, because you were too meek to take action against a fat fuck.

Vile.

>>715429990
juse your phone? It's what I do with Keep talking and nobody explodes

>>715430738
>because you were too meek to take action against a fat fuck.
Explain, is this a Gabe Newell thing?

>>715428279
The game is effectively complete. The dev went on an autistic rewrite.

>>715429257
I mean, this isn’t the first time some guy thought
“I’m a chill and smart guy with a lot of passion, I can probably do a better job at teaching and pass that passion on to the next generation,”
only to find out that 95% of the kids are mouth breathers or have literally zero interest beyond just passing the class
at best, you get one or two kids who are actually somewhat interested in whatever you're teaching

>>715430503
time to make a capitalist zachtronics game where you just prompt llms to code for you and you get charged for all calls. final boss is trying not to go bankrupt or die of old age, trying to get grok4 to do anything useful.

>>715425935
i'm not autistic enough for TIS-100
Opus Magnum tickles the right amount of autism, maybe it's the colors

Zachtroniks game about AI prompts

>>715429807
>That's the thing every teacher always says: the kids are great, the bureaucracy is awful. And it's true."
No the kids are awful, too.

>>715431246
Zachtronics game about being the only qualified programmer in a megacorp responsible for troubleshooting miles of jeetcode.

>>715429807
i'm guessing he ran into kids that were in highschool and just couldn't read somehow and lost hope in the system.
you can't recreate the magic of just finding manuals on stuff and figuring out how to do shit with things in a classroom.

>>715429990
Same, I tried to get into it several times, but having to read the manual beforehand always filters me

>>715431115
Spacechem was already capitalist

>>715424236 (OP)
Oh I didn't realize this was a Zachtronics game since they changed the name of the dev team

I did not expect this to happen...

>>715431729
>JRO DOWN
clever girl

>>715426719
same logic as infinifactory welders I guess?

>>715432107
it would be more impressive if someone got to the last level without figuring out JRO

>>715431729
>I doubt anybody will found our story... learn of our struggle... know what we've been through...
>"ok I'm here what's your story"
>HI!!!!!!!

>people keep asking this a lot, so here's an official answer:
>Back in 2016, we sold Zachtronics to a company called Alliance, who we worked for as employees and made all the Zachtronics games from SHENZHEN I/O onward. In 2022 we stopped working for them and started a new studio called Coincidence, which we own and run as a sort of co-op that allows us to work on projects together, or not together, or anything in-between. (By "we" I mean the five of us who made all the Zachtronics games from SHENZHEN I/O onward; the team was much more dynamic before that, as described in the first few pages of ZACH-LIKE.)
>I still work for Alliance and maintain the Zachtronics games, but we don't own any of that IP, so anything new we make is going to be attached to the new studio and the new name.

>>715432507
IP fuckery ruining shit again, huh...

your defense?

>>715430807
Just watch that youtube video on him.

>>715432807
The rythm game was stupid but it lasts for 1 minute, fucking zoomers I tell you hwat

>>715429807
>>715429257
>inb4 reddit
don't care
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1lioosa/7th_graders_dont_know_824/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1hddy40/my_students_are_retaining_nothing_i_cant_cry/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1cgqdjx/the_middle_is_gone_its_the_haves_and_have_nots_now/
this is just a few examples of how fucked the next generation is.
anyone that spends any amount of time around them realizes how hopeless the situation is

>>715432850
No clue what you are talking about.

When is Jelly playing it?

>>715424236 (OP)
It really makes you FEEL like a chinese electronics factory slave.

>>715433067
Why would anyone do this job? Sounds like a living nightmare even if you're not dealing with niglets

>>715433897
someone has to do it

>>715433804
soon
maybe

>>715428870
Is this game really just the semester of digital electronics I took at uni 15 years ago.

>>715434185
yes
get to playing

>>715434185
Yes. Got a problem with that?

>>715429807
>"It was fun. That was really great. That's the thing every teacher always says: the kids are great, the bureaucracy is awful. And it's true."
Yeah I just got done with my first year teaching. Loved all of my experiences as an intern in college teaching, but then I got my first actual teaching job last year and the admin bullshit is unavoidable and soul crushing. Constant nagging, messaging you to do shit outside of work, petty gossip about everyone behind their back, always passive aggressive, forcing shitty practices onto the classroom and making you deal with the consequences and explain to parents why their child is actively getting a worse education, etc. I love working with the kids but I regret getting an education degree.

>>715434185
maybe

>>715429990
The game is generally pretty good at introducing you into the world and the manuals are well written and presented enough to make it fun. The first levels even have half the code written for you so you can understand how it works with minimal input requirements as you familiarize yourself with the manual and terms

>>715434286
is this true anon >>715433067
also do you think schools will have to massively change now that ai is on the scene?

>>715434219
No that course was fun and actually educational and if you can get for $20 on steam instead of whatever I paid for the course and the book then that's great.

>>715433067
>>715433897
>enter debt just to finish thalmudic daycare center aka college
>your bank account never seen 4 digits even, entry level blue collars make more than you
>you are somehow qualified to teach the next generation about value, networking and how to make money
>"Grr I hate kids...the next generation...is le BAD " -person whose entire life is about kids.

>>715434380
I don't have the time to read through all of the links right now but I'm familiar with what a lot of people vent about there. It's probably all true.
>also do you think schools will have to massively change now that ai is on the scene?
For the students? Absolutely. For teachers I don't see AI doing much more than generate lesson plans and materials, which is already a thing btw. It'll be a dark day though if AI starts writing IEPs.

>>715434286
What country do you work in if you don't mind me asking?

>>715434286
>>715434561
Oh wait
>college
Nevermind.

I feel kinda dumb

Did you beat spacechem without cheating?

>>715426838
he tried it and hated it

This is more of a physical toy but I feel like zachtronics anons might enjoy the existence of roons, a turing complete marble computer based on looms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8taEllwQ2iE

>>715436306
reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A
https://youtu.be/o78L0DPMGQg?si=OlrDtZwhVGOKR2en&t=598

>>715433067
>Philly
Woah, niggers have peabrains???

>>715435279
I rarely beat these games, they always get to a point where it's more work than fun

Wait what? Zach is back?

>>715428963
you can optionally enable a clock pulse.

>>715435049
It's out?
That wasn't in the demo I think.

>>715440004
im zach

>>715440081
how many levels, "zach"
also wah'ts the price

the incredible machine mogs this in every way

>>715440686
42 levels
$20

>>715424236 (OP)
can you build dildos?

>>715440853
>42 levels
>$20
perfect

zach did you make these games to get revenge on me for bullying you?
if so, it worked

How's the solitaire minigame?

Sorry I'm not actually Zach I just got early access but didn't play until now because it looked really shitty up until recently.

>>715433897
it's a good job in a society that isn't fundamentally broken

>>715441141
This is important. If it's better than fortune's foundation I'll buy it just for that.

>>715440004
humiliation ritual

>>715429990
Filtered
Physical accessories are one of the best things about Zachtronics games. This is genius idea for immersion. I really liked Exapunks zines too.

>>715433897
It's not the worst job ever, and most of the horror stories are from people who have no business teaching and can't control a classroom but the entire system is pretty shit. In many districts including mine we can't fail students if they show up and they know it, so around half of them do absolutely nothing and sleep all day and get pushed through with a D. The job is extremely easy though and I get a ton of time off so I don't really give a shit.
t. Math teacher for 6 years.

>>715442357
>we can't fail students if they show up
Why?
t. not american

>>715442019
thats really cool I want one

>>715442639
Because school admins don't want to deal with holding students back so they just auto-pass them even if they get failing grades. It's a complete failure of the system from the top down.

>>715442960
Why do school admins care? It's not their fault some kid is lazy as fuck.

Can I play Exapunks without having played TIS-100? Matthewmatosis says Exapunks builds upon TIS, so he recommended TIS first, but I find the aesthetic of Exapunks really appealing.

>>715442639
Because for some reason failing students is seen as the school failing, so the school gets their funding cut. And then there's asshole parents who complain that their child is a perfect angel who would never be failing and the school must be wrong.

>>715442639
A few reasons:
>Better to just pass them and push them along so they GTFO of public school and stop being our problem.
>Parents don't give a shit as long as little timmy is getting his free breakfast/lunch and is at daycare for 8 hours a day.
>More and more kids are showing up to middle/high school with NO skills they should have learned in Elementary school and we're not able to both teach them the basics they should have already known and still teach to the rest of the class so we let them sit quietly and pass.
>Huge number of kids don't speak English and the staff that are supposed to be helping us with them are never there, so we just look at whatever they scribble on their paper and give them a C or B.
>Huge number of kids have disability paperwork (IEPs) and we're legally supposed to provide them extra supports. If they fail even with those supports their parent can still go nuclear on the issue and accuse us of breaking the law so administration leans on us to pass them.
>General apathy. The pay is shit and nobody up the chain of command seems to give a shit so why should the average teacher?
It's a fucked up system but I'm talking about maybe 30-40% of students in any given class. The rest are at least retaining a basic level of information or putting in some level of effort.

>>715443010
Federal law mandates children be in school until 18. They can't just throw them out, so they just look the other way and pass the buck.

>>715443098
There's no reason to play TIS first.

>>715443098
Yes, they have nothing to do with each other

>>715443231
>30-40% of students in any given class.
Can't they just move all retards to a special retard class so they don't cause any problems for normal kids? That's what they do in my country.

>>715443098
All Zachtronics games are freestanding. Exapunks borrows some ideas from TIS-100, but so does all of them from others. You can play Exapunks first it doesn't matter. IMO Exapunks is the most underrated Zachtronics game. It's theme. setting and visuals are really damn great. TIS-100 is much more minimal game. It's still pretty good, but only if you enjoy pure, distilled zach gameplay.

>>715443098
>>715443576
Also Exapunks intro is fucking kino

https://youtu.be/hf_2nX8prr0?list=RDhf_2nX8prr0

Is Last Call BBS worth it?

>>715443231
You should apply at a charter school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8urWXJuYw

>>715443661
If you are hungry for zachtronics and or sentimental to the now disbanded brand.
It's just bunch of minigames. Still nice to hop it every now and then to solve some puzzles. There is a lot of them there.

>>715442639
no student left behind.
it would make students feel bad and feel stupid to be held back, so schools pretty much just push them through if its possible to spare their feelings.
you're left with students in 9th grade who are really 4th graders educationally.

>>715443576
exapunks is literally the only zach game I've finished to the end because its the most cohesive as a story and a game. All the rest tend to really fall apart at the end for me because they stop being puzzles and just end up chores.

too stupid for Zachtronics games

>>715442639
"No child left behind" act, standardized testing and their consequences have been a huge disaster for the school system

>>715433054
Wouldn't zoomers be into that brainrot shit?

>>715443834
I'm similiar but I still enjoy them a lot. I also finished infinifactory because it's pretty simple.

Loved Infinifactory, what should be my next one? What I liked the most was that feeling of satisfaction seeing your shit work properly after trying so hard
Opus Magnum?

Give your official tier list.
>Shenzhen I/O
>TIS-100
>Exapunks
>Molek-Syntez
>Spacechem
>Opus Magnum
>Last Call BBS
Haven't played Infinifactory yet

>>715424236 (OP)
>>715426679
>>715435049
>infinifactory but 2D
what were they THINKING

I’m a high school teacher and it’s honestly the best fucking job for socially inapt retards. I went from being a NEET with no experience in any job to working like 20 hours a week, having around 3 months of vacations total and earning enough money to buy the games and books I want.

>>715443946
yeah even the ones I didn't finish I enjoyed quite a lot. spacechem is one of those zachlikes that tends to not rate highly but I very much enjoy even if I only played like half of it

>>715444070
I'm too racist

>>715443661
Yes, even if only for 20th century food court

>>715444070
I was offered a teaching position while I was in university, but I just can't be arsed to sit down and tell someone why their code doesn't compile
Now I work from home and effectively never leave my house

>>715444279
Homeoffice is good too, but it can be stressful as fuck as well, you have too many responsibilities, if you fuck up you’re fucking up the entire team as well. Meanwhile, a teacher just has to explain stuff that they already know, he doesn’t need to create anything from zero, it’s impossible to fuck up on this job.

>>715427414
oh man I'd love to be you right now
so many great games just waiting for you

>>715429807
teaching in the age of chatgpt must be hell
it's not just that homework is useless or whatever
I can't imagine this tech isn't turning kids into braindead idiots. even more so than when I went to school pre-google and kids were already too lazy to pick up a book
interesting times
but I'm old and out of touch, we'll see how it turns out I guess

>>715444102
I genuinely really enjoyed the story of SpaceChem, even if it's just optional wall of texts. I really liked the idea of being some random engineer who gets more and more important as he survives one cosmic horror after another and finally ends up on some alchemical bullshittery planet. That's where I gave up on the game but it still was a really nice ride.

where's the demo?
I can't find it in the store.

>>715443553
>Special classes
They have those for students that can't even show up and get a D for sitting in a chair. They sit in a computer lab with a football coach watching them take multiple choice tests with unlimited retakes until they hit a 70% threshold. If they do that for a week they're given credit for the class they failed. They start that class with a 1.5GPA and speedrun highschool in two months.

>>715444058
Exapunk
Shenzhen
SpaceChem
TIS-100
Molek-Syntez
Opus Magnum
Last Call BBS

>>715444556
I've already heard enough horror stories about AI in academia from my local university, can only imagine how widespread that issue is

>>715444518
no lol i just took a look and it seems like its just another “work” game like factorio, i honestly don’t know how you people can like that shit, do you just want to appear smart or smth? shit’s boring as fuck

>>715444737
check his other games

>>715435279
you can cheat in spacechem?

>>715444058
Exapunks
TIS-100
SchenzenIO
Infinifactory
SpaceChem
Opus Magnum
KOHCTPYKTOP
Last Call BBS

>>715443661
Yes.

>>715444058
Exapunks
Last Call BBS (the ones I liked)
Opus Magnum
Spacechem
Infinifactory
Last Call BBS (the other ones)
Molek-Syntez
haven't played:
Shenzhen I/O
TIS-100

>>715444847
You could always look up solutions in a puzzle game

Are these games going on sale later today?

>>715424236 (OP)
These game are sick (bad)

Why is it so cheap

I’ll buy it if it’s 60 BRL, otherwise you can fuck off, greed motherfuckers.

WHERE'S THE DEMO

>>715445315
Where???

>>715444617
I think they removed it

>>715445492
cdkeys and instantgaming

>>715445512
yeah, I tried the steam://install hyperlink and it did not work
:(

>>715444058
>Molek-Syntez that high
It's the only one I couldn't get into, the bonds don't make sense to me and the presentation is boring

>>715445624
I liked that it has some difficulty and the solitaire variant is probably his second best after Shenzhen solitaire

>>715445624
Holy shit, you’re low IQ
>>715445791
>difficulty
Lol, it’s one of the easiest Zachtronics games, you chimpanzee

>>715445315
It was in the Humble Choice bundle at some point, probably people selling off extra or unwanted keys.
Either that or keys bought with stolen credit cards.

>>715445989
Can you give me a key for Last Call BBS, bro?

IT'S OUT

>>715446061
>only 7 trophies in 2025
wtf man, bummer

>>715445967
It was harder than Opus Magnum and it actually had some constraints.
I didn’t say it was difficult compared to other Zachtronics games, it just isn't a complete pushover.

>>715446151
>cheevo niggers already hate it
That's how I know I'm gonna love this game

>check the achievement lists
>there are solitaire achievements
fucking based
cya later, I'm off to play some

>>715444979
i just bang my head against the wall to make the most convoluted solution

whenever i check the best solutions after making my own i just feel stupid, because there is no way i'm reaching the same logical conclusion

Mega?

>>715447103
Mega what? Retard.

>decided to replay TIS
>forgot how to create useful interrupts
It has never been more over

>>715425935
Why not rather learn actual programming and make with it. Playing this seems such waste of time.

>>715447089
Welcome to programming, that's how it can be until you build up intuition

>game is 19.99 eurobucks instead of the usual Valve recommended price of 19.50
Why?

>>715448713
There’s something called inflation.

torrent when?

>>715448762
>>>/d/

>>715424236 (OP)
did whomever made this never seened a watch befor?

>>715447395
What does !MOV do?

>>715448907
Why?

Am I retarded? I thought Zachtronics was shutting down. This makes me very happy.

>>715448960
What watch has ever made where in button holes on both straps but no fasener?

>>715426107
nta but what i'm hearing is i should pick up infinifactory
i disliked tis, maybe because my actual job is coding lmao

>>715447498
but I do

>>715448762
Why is it priced at 19.99 USD like the older games then?
I'm still going to buy it but it's not a good look.

>>715448907
You think that's bad...

>>715435791
Understandable.

>>715448958
Exclamation mark is a breakpoint.

I buy all his games but never finished one

>>715444058
>Opus Magnum
>Infinifactory
>Last Call
>Exapunks
>TIS-100
>Spacechem
>Molek-Syntez

>>715424236 (OP)
I thought this dude had called quits to be a teacher or whatever
Wasnt lastcall bbs even referencing that, being his 'goodbye' game?

Ok, I'll buy it and just get a refund once the game drops for "free".

>>715444021
OM is the natural choice from your description, its got that assembly line feel

Space Chem would be another fair option but it's a fair bit harder. If you wanted to dip your toes in the coding stuff ExaPunks has you programming little worker robots which has a similar feel

>>715430738
>>715430807
He's probably talking about how Minecraft was inspired by Infiniminer but Zach never saw a cent of money from it.

Which, TBF, I don't know if Zach would've been able to win that case even if he'd tried. The games play entirely differently from one another and it's not like you can copyright "Game with world made out of blocks".

>>715450304
Pretty much all games you play share gameplay mechanics and ideas with other games. Thinking Zach should got compensation from notch because he made a voxel placing game is retarded.

>>715450304
This. The only thing Minecraft copied from Infinimer was the editable voxel world and the multiplayer aspect.
I still remember the Infiniminer threads on /v/ way back when. Good times.

>>715450478
Agreed.

>>715450304
There's no way Notch didn't hand him a little something under the table

Fractal Block World is the superior Infiniminer legacy anyway.

>>715450851
>Fractal Block World
Looks like shit.

>>715450851
>>715450903
Well you can't both be right..
What's going on?

>>715450729
Is that what you think richfags do LMAO

I only played spacechem and the soundtrack is really good
I dont expect other zachtronics games to have good soundtracks like it but do they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCN3l8wc_-Y

>>715451069
I watched broteam years and years ago and Notch just came in and dropped 10k on this retard while doing a live is strange stream or minecraft story mode thing IIRC
Notch absolutely blew loads of money on shit like this because he's not a typical rich man

>released an hour ago
>still no cracked version online
hurry the fuck up

>>715450903
>Looks like shit
It's an acquired taste.

But in all honesty, if anyone likes to explore weird, obscure games, I can fully recommend it. This game presents itself like a joke like some shitpost, but there is some really clever ideas in there and the amount of content is fucking huge. There is some videos that go into more detailed analysis, but I would recommend to play it for few hours blind to get a feel of it.

>>715451269
And btw, it is essentially the same engine as infiniminer. Zach actually worked on several voxel based games and he wasn't doing it alone. After Zach gave up on infinifactory and went to make Zachtronics, the guy who was working with him on these games continued to do so for many years and that's where Fractal Block World comes from.

>>715451084
You NEED to listen to the EXAPUNKS OST. It's so fucking good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MolB2Kika4

>>715433897
Depends on where you live. My father was a teacher (is in pension this year), and he was unfireable. Nigga took more sick days in a year than I did in my whole life, and he never even tried to do his job properly. Newer teachers over here don't usually get the same benefits though.

How the fuck do I turn down the cost of sandwich what the fuck

>>715443231
The worst part is if they do go to college, it's pretty much the opposite where they'll kick you out of class if you don't do your work, mark you as absent, then have you booted from the class after three absences. This pussyfoot handholdy shit completely fucks the students in the long run, but like you said, no one in any level cares so it's hard to fix.

I remember being in a college reading class and struggling to not cringe at how many people were still in the "slowly sound it out one syllable at a time" phase in reading, and any word longer than three syllables was borderline incomprehensible gobbledygook that they would struggle with for almost a full minute.

Pretty easy so far, easiest of all the Zachs I've played, I guess it's only hard if you're going for max optimization?

>>715451659
>>715451567
upload the files stop being jewish

How do people do it in only 2 turns?

>>715451684
Support Zach

>>715428963
I write Verilog for FPGAs at a FAGMAN, it can happen

>>715451706
flip it idiot

>>715451706
This is my exact design wtf, stop copying my homework!!
>>715451684
Support Zach

>>715451084
opus magnum ost is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWjH22qxpT0

>>715448713
Wait they're charging you 19.99 Eurobucks?
Kek, God save the King and all that

>>715451746
Oh yeah

>>715452119
I came.

No Android port?

>>715443010
>>715443379
Federal law mandates better funding for better performance

>>715452119
Brilliant, I did it like >>715451706 too

>>715428743
This is a solution I had for one of the main levels. There's levels beyond this that implement more complex architectures.
The game provides a programmable memory component with a customizable assembler, but everything else is just made from gates.
You can cheese a lot of them with state machines though if you know what you're doing.

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE TORRENT

>>715451421
its sad to think that you have all these talents behind the framework of minecraft and its fucking notch, the guy that stole the code for watermelon from a fan and made it an entire content release, who made billions

>>715452336
soon bro... keep the faith...
skidmarkloaded-repacks.io will save us... I believe

>>715450965
Graphically it's a mess is all. Clear case of programmer art being the only art available. But it's a great game.

>>715451684
>>715452336
Support Zach

>>715452426
>But it's a great game.
I checked the trailer and the guy does nothing but shoot at giant orbs. What exactly make this game "great"?

>>715452285
building ALUs is fun

>>715443834
Magnus Opus is great throughout

>>715446161
Opus Magnum is by far their easiest game

Should I get Kaizen if I'm a brainlet who only briefly played Spacechem? Looks fun, but maybe there are better entry games?

The binoculars puzzle is glitched for me, it says there are two barrels and two eyepieces but there’s only one of each. It’s impossible to solve the puzzle like this.

>>715453004
Based retard.

>>715452529
It is primarally an exploration game, combat is basic because it's a secondary feature. And the places you're exploring are fractals. The main mechanic is to grow and shrink which changes the whole world around you. Single blocks will seprate into 16×16×16 chunks when you shrink and re-fuse when you grow, with no upper or lower limit.

>>715452621
This is literally my Digital Design Lab course from back in college

>>715453085
Okay, but what is there to do? Are there puzzles? Or do you just look at the fractal behaving... fractal-y?

>>715452982
This one is really really easy so far, I'm up to the fourth chapter and have barely encountered any resistance.
>>715453004
Are you retarded?

>>715453048
>>715453257
Shut the fuck up, I just got it, game’s unintuitive as fuck.

>>715429807
>>715434286
My mom has been a teacher for like 30 years now and she left public education (we have state funded education so almost all schools are public) because she was tired of the bureaucracy hell as well. She ended up helping to kickstart a waldorf school, which has it's own set of weird beliefs I find iffy, but it's still a lot more enjoyable for her.

>no crack
It doesn't even have denuvo!!! What is causing the delay!!!

>>715453409
>pirating a small dev’s game
Do you have no fucking heart? Fuck off.

>>715453154
Each area has various things that can be entered, with mazes, puzzles and Ect. inside. The main goal is to find the keys to save your friend (and that's about all the plot you get), plus there's many secrets and side goals to go for.

>>715453593
>paying for any game that can be had for free
could not be me

>>715453593
NTA but I'm poor as shit right now. Might be getting a job soon though, all things going well. Will probably buy some zachtronics bundle if I do since I've pirated basically all of his games at this point.

>>715452982
Unfortunately it's a brainlet game.

>>715426679
That Gundam puzzle was ass, if you did the way you have it in the gif here it works but if you do it mirrored it won't fucking work for whatever reason. And it's even the solution they showed in the fucking trailer.

>>715453813
>for whatever reason
arm has distinct left and right side. basically 'spot the difference'

>>715453608
...are you the dev? It sounds like you made something you really liked.

>>715453409
Support Zach

>>715453813
It didn't work at first for me either, can't remember why
>>715453878
You don't have to flip the arm and leg

nooo I'm not an alcoholic

>>715433897
It was a respected job before the days of helicopter parents, ipad daycare, and anti intellectualism.

>Robot puzzle
>time: 6
>people did it in 2
Wtf, am I trash at this? How do you solve it with only 2 steps?

>>715455423
Gotta spin him by his cock

>>715433897
>>715433934
I'm boomerposting on fucking /v/. We've abandoned education in this country.

>>715443707
charter schools are no different and are more often than not, scams. There is a private industry waiting to capture potentially billions of dollars once the public education system completely collapses. Education should not be, and should never have been for profit. It's for the public good. I'm saying this as someone who got a very expensive private education after 8 years of public.

When do you unlock the solitaire game?

>>715444912
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurg

Someone please upload the game
I beg you

>>715424236 (OP)
what in the autism? what kind of game is this?

I really don't know what's up with Zach, man. He seems like a very competent guy, but at the same time, he seems to be extremely naive.
The fact alone that he willingly chose to try and become a teacher, despite being a successful dev, is insane. You only become a teacher if you can't find a real job ffs.

>>715456241
>what kind of game is this?
It's a zachlike.

>>715456313
I think he just burned out of doing developer stuff and figured he might as well inspire the next generation while he's switching careers anyway.

when do I unlock solitaire?

>>715456372
The guy was a software dev in the golden age while living in the US. He should have enough to retire on instead of doing goofy stuff like that.
>Inspire the next generation
That's what I mean with naive. Nobody is inspired by their teachers. You don't learn anything in school anyway. Everything worthwhile people have to teach themselves.

Where should I put ffmpeg to record webm or mp4?

>>715457074
It probably just needs to be in the PATH environment variable

Aight, just finished world 1, pretty nice game but a bit on the easier side like their latest games, seems like there’s no bonus campaign though.

>>715456578
>Nobody is inspired by their teachers.
There are many, MANY anecdotes from people who met one teacher who actually cared about their students and had their lives changed forever.
Just because you didn't doesn't mean no one did.

>>715456313
>successful dev
His games probably can’t even cross 100k units sold.

>>715457224
Yeah, I did that.
Do I need to reload the PC too? I thought we are past that

>>715456372
>inspire the next loe attention span, AI slop fed and taught generation(which is also using AI slop to avoid having to do stuff at school)
That anon is right, guy seems really naive.

>>715457461
Because his games are autistic garbage

>6 out of the 7 trophies are related to fucking solitaire
C’mon man, that’s fucking bullshit, I know solitaire minigames have been a staple of Zachtronics, but this awful, it’s a puzzle game, I wanna be rewarded with a trophy by solving fucking puzzle not by playing solitaire.

>>715444737
lel iqlet

>>715457925
>I wanna be rewarded with a trophy by solving fucking puzzle
I mean there's one for beating the game.

>>715457925
>I wanna be rewarded with a trophy
haha gay

POST THE GAME

>>715458559
the game

>>715458768
ty

>nothing on GGN
>nothing on CSRIN
>nothing on /v/
piracy is dead

>>715424236 (OP)
I thought Last Call BBS was meant to be their last game.
Looks pretty good, Opus Magnum was the shit so I'm down for more of that

>>715459074
>I thought Last Call BBS was meant to be their last game.
Zach came back after realizing that teaching sucks (like everyone fucking told him).

>>715458921
It’s 20 fucking bucks and has regional pricing.

>>715459559
stfu moralfag
>b-b-b-but it costs anything more than free wahhh
>support the heckin based devarino
nah. I pirate everything

>>715459623
then crack it yourself

>>715458921
I just want to buy it because sometimes i leave a game untouched for months, maybe years, and i like to come back to the exact progress i already did
With Zach games that's even stronger, and since it's a dev i actually respect i don't mind paying

Enjoying it so far. Rotations can be difficult to comprehend sometimes but can be a powerfull way to move items a great distance, a bit like infinitifactory.

I feel like there was a trick to the triple sushi thing but couldn't figurre it out.

>>715459825
the endless cycle of what ifs. separate time/cost/area solutions, and all of them are suboptimal.
I'll get back to it later

>>715460063
nigger sushi

This game seems really short, I just finished the first part of puzzles in like a little more than an hour, there are seven parts it seems.

>>715460063
Why are we wielding sushi together?

>>715460390
That’s plastic, not sushi.

>>715460390
It's faster to switch to your side dish than reloading.

>>715460636
kek

>>715459825
why does the welder go in a non straight line when the lazer is fixed? why do you need to weld a fucking camera?
this is not the same level of polish we used to get, i'll go replay Opus Magnum

I love these games even though most of them filter me hard

>>715460943
nigga there’s nothing to filter, you can literally make the least optimized solution ever and still pass, the difficulty is optimizing your solutions and that’s optional

>>715460943
i just enjoy making a single arm do most of the work, it may be the slowest but i like it

>>715447498
It is actual programming.
Just not for a real architecture.
It has the same fundamentals as most Assembly. If you can get a sort algorithm running in TIS-100, you have the skill to get one running on a 6502, x86-64, or anything else you could want.

>>715460943
Holy shit I can't stop laughing

>>715460943
>When working on a problem, I never think about beauty; I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

>>715424236 (OP)
Oh boy! Indian factory worker simulator!

>>715440758
Widget Workshop is way better than Incredible Machine because it actually relies on FACTS and LOGIC
Widget Workshop:
>clearly labeled inputs and outputs
>each item is customizable, can output true (1), false (0), or other numbers
>you can create some interesting tools and basic computers

Incredible Machine:
>abstract interactions that you'll have to see if they work or not
>some items have gravity, some don't
>it's just puzzles

Is it just me or is it that easy to brute force the pachinko game?

Has any other game tried to put Zach mechanics into a game that wasn't just histograms?
I'm only aware of Roody:2d

>>715462295
What is happening here?

>>715462295
It's a factory that has two ore miner/smelters and combines it into a specific shape in the middle
Once it gets the specific shape a new block pops out
But the output is on the bottom, so outputting the new blocks ends up pushing the entire factory upwards

>>715462645
Meant for >>715462417

>>715450203
what a sad burger
just lettuce and patty?
zach barth is american; he should know better
where is the tomato and onion? where is the mustard and ketchup? where are the pickles and where is the cheese?
a truly depressing burger. shameful even

>>715428870
Great game but I lost interest around the last couple of challenges.

>>715462130
Nah you're right, it's way too easy. Once you figure out the input rate vs. gravity offset, you can just shotgun parts at it and let the system sort itself out. It's less pachinko and more “hope management automation.” Honestly feels like they wanted a puzzle but forgot to include the constraint that makes it one.

>>715447498
>Playing this seems such waste of time.
it sharpens your brain, makes you smarter
it is real programming after all

normies like you don't get it... shame...

>>715461157
Then why not just go straight to doing actual assembly?

oh shit that music

>>715463885
why not you stop being such a whiny faggot then?
there's the door, go play your AAA-slop dear normie.
bye

>>715464025
Where are the fucking numbers

>>715464224
90 yo granny will paint them on manually later in the production process

>>715463885
With the real thing you have to search for the goal in writing yourself, with a game it is already given and is also given that there'll be some measure or secret to find, which is not certain with the real deal.
For the real thing to do certain things knowledge of other topics would be needed, with a game it's guaranteed all the knowledge needed to progress is within and already shown
In other words, convenience and ease.

>>715462295
>Zach mechanics that wasn't just histograms
Solitaire? I don't understand the question

>>715464432
The true MVPs of the japanese electronics industry

>>715424236 (OP)
>Retires forever
>Yeah I'm back

What's his problem.

>>715464651
>"I want to be an educator!"
>spends a year as an educator
>"I don't want to be an educator!"

>>715464651
>sell company for millions
>original devs quit
>make new company
>???
>profit

>>715464651
How many versions of this did the author make before vanishing forever again? 3? 4?

the problem with these games is that i always think i should be learning actual programming instead of playing them.

>>715462781
Here you go

>>715465297
Technically just 2. Voihon and its remake, then the Teff the Doll spinoff which was like a stranger retelling of Voihon, then a fourth even more heavily cut down and truncated Teff the Doll comedy 4koma without dialogue or lore. Then uh... A little wider-Voihon-world comic about a girl with a traveling house that immediately died.

Is anything else from this "automation fest" worthwhile?

>>715465884
Shenzhen IO

>>715465884
Other than the rest of the Zachtronics catalog, Signal State was decent. Infinite Turtles is a good Zach clone, but it's not on sale (still pretty cheap at full price).
I'm going to blind try Automachef because it's like $3.

>>715465772
I bought Last Call BBS for this game and it filtered me hard

>>715460828
The double welder mends the whole two parts together while the single welder only welds one square to it's opposing part.
>why do you need to weld a fucking camera?
The game is welding squares together, the camera part is just a part of the art style of the game. It could have just been orange and green and purple squares, but that would be boring. Also you can flip things and see what's on the back of them.

>>715433897
Its hard to break out of generational teacher families

Honestly, I'm not feeling it as much as their previous games...

>>715467524
It's a lot easier, but I'm only on chapter 3

>>715465884
roody2d is -40%. Not super polished but when I got sick of all the same conveyor belt simulators, this was nice for being something different

>>715467524
Same, although it's picked up in chapter 4. I'm resorting to a lot of spaghetti building now which is kind of fun

>>715434540
Nice strawman bro.

>>715465884
Captain of industry :)

>>715464802
Gen Z broke our boy's hopes and dreams

>>715465884
if it's not factorio, then it's not worth it.

Reminder that one of their games uses gender neutral pronouns for one of its side characters. They should be added to the woke games list.

>>715471289
Thank you for the reminder, I will not be taking your opinion into account.

>>715465772
Hate sandwiches!
Trivial conditional outputs but a billion of them!

>>715471289
You fags care about the lore of the automation autism games? I just skip that stuff

How do you make the sandwich in a turn?

>>715471823
I don't care about that, I care about giving money to woke developers.

>>715472627
replace the B actuator with a mirrored version of A and grab the sandwich further backwards so that the rail doesn't intersect with the upper welder?

>>715424236 (OP)
I quit the demo when they forced the minigame on me before any programming gameplay

>>715473247
holy filtered
nice one zach

>>715472932
Sure but now it costs more, it uses slightly less area though

>>715424236 (OP)
Didn’t realise this came out. No fanfare for it online I guess.

Bought it right away. Why is the protag’s last name Sugimoto if he’s American? His dad didn’t mention being Japanese himself

>3 hours already
I'll probably play for 20 hours and then leave it for the next two years

>>715473118
Davidi-kun was made to be bullied

It looks worse than Opus Magnum. It looks worse than SpaceChem ever.
I'll probably pick it up when it goes on sale, but can someone clarify if this is an actual Zach game or not? It states it's from the original team, but does that include him?

>>715473975
what kind of graphics do you want for a such game?

>>715473572
his dad had an extreme case of yellow fever so he took his jap trophy wife's family name

So what are people thinking? Better or worse than Opus?

There certainly is a benefit to having the creations be real products over abstract combinations of elements

>>715453154
Your quest is to find your friend K. You basically traverse a fractal world following trail of breadcrumbs mixed with his progressively more deranged schizo rambling and explore dungeons inside dungeons inside dungeons. The world feels much much larger than of minecraft or hyperrouge. Each dungeon is some gimmick and there is quite a lot of secret locations, stuff to do and weird mechanics to learn and exploit.

AFAIK the guy who made this is just some math teacher, not gamedev, so treat it more like half a game, half a tech demo half a learning tool. Kind of like hyperrouge. But it doesn't mean it's not interesting on its own.

>>715453891
He might be, kek. But his description was on point.

>>715433897
most of the people doing it deserve it

Was this a bug? I have no idea how I got the viewfinder to just appear after everything else

>>715473639
lol that's what I do with all of their games

>>715474671
You started an arm on it. All the assembly sequences are loops, anon, that arm doesn't just "start extended", it's extended in the position in your process marked as the start.

>>715474305
I didn't play Opus Magnum, but it's worse than Molek Syntez and Infinifactory.

>>715431115
wait, a game where you have to wrangle a piddly 1.5B model to do zachtronics stuff sounds kinda fun actually

>>715474886
>worse than Molek Syntez
Really?

>>715474671
Arm A extends over the input area. It's always the small yet significant mechanics that they never explain.

>>715475084
Molek Syntez is fun and the last 2 puzzles are really hard. Kaizen, on the other hand, is really really easy and it tries to force some really bland and generic story in-between the levels.

>>715465884
Tried Satisfactory since 1.1 is out and it honestly feels like shit to build factories in this game

>>715474671
You could move the arm in between the saws and viewfinder, effectively welding the later to the camera body.

>>715475278
And the devs are also woke. Avoid that shit.

>>715424236 (OP)
wtf i thought last call bbs was supposed to be their finale?

>>715475278
Satisfactory is shit. If you want to build factory play Factorio. If you want 3D, play Dyson Sphere Program.

>>715475492
This fucking post has been made a hundred times here so far. Read the fucking thread.

>>715475558
Dyson is 2D.

>>715475840
It's 3D in the right way. You can stack things vertically and do some crazy spaghetti, but it's also all on a grid so you can quickly copy paste blueprints like in late game Factorio.
It also has better late game than (non-DLC)Factorio. Building megaconstructions and scaling your factory over multiple systems with multiple planets is way more fun than just hitting some arbitrary science/min goal.

>>715475773
Timberborn is very fun, but I wouldn't call it a Zach-like.

>>715475840
>Dyson SPHERE
>2D

>>715476053
>>715476092
the graphics are 3D but it's a 2D game like Factorio, wtf are you talking about?

2D game

how THE FUCK do you make burger so cheap

>>715476523
fill it up with estrogen and additive instead of real meat.

>>715476523
use sawdust as a filler

>>715476682
shut up and look at my expensive slow compact burger idiot

>>715477070
That's still too expensive, I'm stuck at the burger too haha

>>715465564
The trick is to know how to program already, then there's no conflict

>the finished products magically vanish instead of having to be fed to a delivery zone
CASUALS
FUCKING
CASUALS

>>715477323
>>715477070
...I see

>>715433067
>OMG le kids are so bad nowadays
Maybe the problem is with the school system being an obsolete relic from the 18th century?

>>715477323
this is my fastest burger. I can't conceptualize a faster burger

>>715475773
bober kurwa

>>715465884
Shapez2 is solid.

>>715478287
If you optimize the one I did before you can get this, I stil have no idea how to make it cheaper and more compact

>>715478039
It would be more effective if education was like in the 18th century where kids would get beaten for the slightest infraction.

>>715474671
Start thinking with flips, son

The manufacturing theme, difficulty and gameplay was better in infinifactory.

>>715458921
It's up

>>715478828
>>715478287
I got it lmao, that was fun

>>715479101
I like the idea of pushing things sideways with the arms

nothing in the world feels better than being the fastest holy fuck I'm jizzing

>>715427414
The guy that made infiniminer and nearly killed himself for not turning it into minecraft made a successful indie company that makes autism puzzle games.

>>715479530
In this design it's marginally more area efficient than the alternatives
Quirky and functional

>the first level is autoscroll
He did this on purpose I am sure of it. I always try to fo the first puzzle the slowest I possibly can to skew the results.

>>715425935
hey that's me

>>715479637
say that after a week when more people get to play it

>>715426218
>>715426679
there's a game coming out next month that's a lot like tis-100 called quantumpulse 2a. I got to playtest it early and I had a lot of fun with it

>>715451579
>I remember being in a college reading class and struggling to not cringe at how many people were still in the "slowly sound it out one syllable at a time" phase in reading, and any word longer than three syllables was borderline incomprehensible gobbledygook that they would struggle with for almost a full minute.
You brought me back memories I did not wish to remember, anon.
Btw I'm pushing 31 this year, it was kinda the same here in pastaland.
I was amused by the fact in fucking HIGH SCHOOL (up 'til the last year) nobody knew basic english, despite being taught since elementary school.

>>715480574
Misread as "compulsive 2FA"

>>715480519
I won't be able to, I know my limits. I'm taking my win while I can

Zach is a fucking faggot. I beat his theoretical minimum cost build on Sandwich Maker in Shenzhen IO by using bit-level hacking, and the faggot got so mad he reworked the entire level not a week later. I shan't be buying anymore of his games.

>>715446053
Nigga it's 1€.

>>715481354
Elaborate

>>715481354
Proof?

>>715481451
1€ for me is a lot of money.

>>715481673
Shenzhen IO has a level in it called "Sandwich Maker" or something similar. Zach's own best attempts at making a solution had him spend one yen more than my new solution, which had never been found before (since it fell outside of the score histogram entirely). I used some really grungy code to cram all of the necessary instructions into one less processor. He got really mad that I had bested him, so then instead of altering the histogram to show my new solution, he reworked the entire level for the next update (which was only a week later), claiming that it was "too hard" for regular players. You can still see this ingame today. If you look through the level list, there should be two versions of Sandwich Maker available to you. Fuck Zach.

>>715482738
maybe the level actually was just too hard for players

>>715482738
How do you know he *personally* felt slightest? Also where do yoh see developer solutions?

>>715482738
You know what a histogram is but you don't understand an outlier?

>>715482738
Is it still possible to play the older version of that level?

>>715483293
>Today's update replaces the "personal sandwich assembler" with a simpler version of the puzzle that is more consistent with the rest of the game's difficulty curve. The previous version is available in the puzzle archive with the secret code 2241.

>>715483460
Thanks.

>>715483736
you stole my fucking solution you bastard

Fleshprinting was the best output from Zachtronics.

>>715483901
that doesn't seem like a zachtronics game.

>>715483736
My first solution had the bottom part shredded, as I thought its roundness had to be part of the final product (rice is asymmetrical). Had to pivot to flipping, to salvage what I had built.

>>715483241
Because I showed him my solution and he got mad at me for "exploiting" the game.
>>715483253
Update the histogram, Zach. You know I beat your ass fair and square.

>>715484312
It's not a competition, kid.

>>715483901
I expected this to have you end up creating a giant flesh golem.

Now that I think of it, I kinda want a game where you have to create block based units/manipulators using forbidden path logic, then program them with EXAPUNKS coding to move around an area to complete some tasks.

what are the odds of being able to enjoy and beat zach's games if you aren't a high IQ autist? i'm a midwit at best

>>715479285
>poster has exactly 2 posts
still downloadan

>>715484312
Hot cat, but unless you've got some sort of proof besides "trust me bro", like screencaps or similar I'm still going with "fake and gay"

>>715484312
>you're the dev!
As expected of some dumb cuck image poster.

>>715484601
You people are pathetic.

>>715484601
Link? Thx in advance

>>715484983
pixeldrain com/u/2zgD7U5g
password in pic related

>>715463885
and why don't you do that instead of posting here nigger retard?

>>715484983
>>715485219
works fine (tm)
another W for pirates

I stopped playing at the second pachinko minigame.
Game is way too easy; it feels like you're just going through the motion rather than solving puzzles.

>>715485983
It picks up in chapter 5, though the puzzles are still kind of easy if you don't care about efficiency

>>715440004
what the fuck

>>715441841
Literally. No, really. That's what it is. Those Japs are forced to go through them because it shows deference towards those in charge.

>>715433897
I'm teaching math in university, it's not bad.
Schedule is lax, you have like 3-4 days per week where you even have to go to work, and shift is short, you don't have to sit from 9 to 17. You don't have to beg for vacations, every exam period and whole summer is your vacation.
You don't question "Is my work useful? Am I doing harm?" No, you don't.
You don't have to fill your head with boring stuff, like intricacies of some bullshit spreadsheet software. I mean, if I graduated in math, I like math somewhat.
You constantly see new people, while at the office job it may be three same elderly woman every fucking day.
Bureocracy isn't bad at all in my case, but sure, this may vary depending on uni.
Students aren't that bad like you have in school, they are filtered before they get here.

>>715486189
how many chapters are there?

>>715486357
What's the point of a logarithm?

what kind of fucked up shit is this?

>>715486421
7 probably

>>715484964
Do you feel better after posting that?

>>715424236 (OP)
Loved Exapunks, if this is in the same vein then I'll give it a shot.

>>715486886
It was invented to simplify calculations. Optimisation trick. With logarithmic tables you replace multiplication with addition, it's a huge deal if you live in a world without computers. Claims were that 'logarithms doubled lifespans of astronomers', something like that. Scottish people will never invent something more significant.

Later it turned out that logarithm appear IRL in some nature laws.

>>715487154
does the main campaign end before the 7th chapter though?

The dev is kind of an eastaboo, isn't he?

That said, this is actually a wish fulfillment game, where you have a job, the employers tutor you through learning the ropes, your parents aren't disappointed in you, and your boss doesn't fire you without warning after underpaying you for months.

>>715487330
It's more along the lines of Opus Magnum.

>>715430067
>>715429990
>>715442019
Get on my level.

how am i not getting optimal solutions for tutorials? are people cheating this early?
>can't set the starting position of the arm for a faster result
fuck

>>715488063
spin him by his cock

>>715427414
The Hunie Pop guy

>>715427414
Zachary Darwin Electronics manufacturing

>>715487993
Okay

Don't like how portraits look. They feel ai-ish

>>715453351
>game’s unintuitive as fuck.
You have to think and problem solve

>>715482738
>he thinks the dev even knows who you are
>he thinks he's the only one who came up with the optimal solution

>>715490234
this, everything looks like AI

>>715424236 (OP)
Demo felt like story-wise it's like Schenzen IO, but much worse in every concievable way. Am I right, or it gets better?

>>715426719
Easier to parse and work with on a grid.

>>715491027
You're right.

>time 2
how????

>>715426838
>Try to quit
>Get bored and want to play vidya
>Made some really good vidya in the past
>Didn't want to have to try to live up to the old company's reputation
>Start a new company so it's a little more forgivable if the games aren't as good as previous ones

>>715491471
see
>>715452119

>>715491471
Only flip once

>>715491471
Push rice into blades and swap onto seaweed.

>stuck on the curry for a good 15-20 minutes
>thought my solution is complete ass
>is actually super good
Maybe there's hope for me yet

>plastic food
soulless chapter
how do we go from welding atoms and magical elements from other games to this crap?

>>715492405
stfu retard

>>715487993
>Get a new color toner printer
>Literally the first thing I do is print out a couple zines
>Fiddle with it to make sure the papers are flipped right and printing in order
>Then use THE FANCY PAPER to print it out on
>Then just throw it in my pile of mail and junk so it gets beat up anyway
I fucking love props, yo. I printed out and bound the stuff for Shenzen IO. I printed out the whole manual and put it in a binder with those plastic sleeve protectors so I could write on them with a dry erease marker. Fukkin' love props. Wish more games let me make some.

I have made an abomination

>>715494760
Do you have unmovable entry points for the parts?
If not, whats the reasoning behind B being a slider?

>>715494137
>printed out the whole manual and put it in a binder with those plastic sleeve protectors
Oh. The manual for "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" that is.

Its got me thinking too, I have a couple games that I have to take notes on. Cultist Simulator and a whole giant puzzle that is basically a secret for a board game. What are some other neat games that have you taking notes?

I thought this would be the worst fucking possible solution but most people did it in a similar amount of steps

Might be the first zach I'm going to refund.

>>715495165
I'm just.... not the sharpest tool in the shed

You faggots will play shit like this but won't get a job?

>>715495492
Void Stranger threads were fantastic specifically because the game is like that. The Sokoban element core to the game is not for everyone though.

>>715496059
I have a job. This isn't a job.
>>715487942

fuck calculators

>>715497546
i'm tired boss

>>715495492
>secret for a board game.
What, like lore? Does it have to do with Arkham Horror?

but what is this shit?

>>715497984
No. It's more like an easter egg. You get a deck of playing cards that are written on and each card is a clue to a puzzle. The first puzzle is finding a secret website that guides you through the deck and is a place to enter the answers. anyway, solve the puzzle and the game devs send you extra components for the board game. Im about half way through the deck. Been working on it onn and off for almost two years.

>>715498217
Ever played Pyramid solitaire? Like that, but with a few extra rules.

>>715498278
wait wut? what game?

>>715498507
Too Many Bones. The Base game and expansions have a puzzle in the back of the box. The deck of cards comes from Auromation of Shale which is a pop-up book that gives you components for one campaign and the deck of cards is a secret in the box.

>>715498602
Automation of Shale*

Also Too Many Bones is basically a rouge-lite in board game form. Good stuff.