what's wrong with my onigiri, it looks like in the picture

>>715716202 (OP)
I thought zactronics was done making games?

>>715716231
You can take the Zach out of Zachtronics but you can't take the Zachtronics out of Zach.

nevermind I forgot to glue it together

The game looks cool. Is it worth picking up?

>>715717080
yeah, it feels like opus magnum so far

>>715716231
the old company is gone, the new one still has the same people. So thank god we are still getting these excellent puzzle games. I can only imagine they must only get five sales per instance, but I really appreciate that they take the time and effort to make great games like this for such a tiny group of people. I recently played Exo Punks and it was dope.

I also feel like Factorio and its similar games are similar in vibe to Zactronics' games too

>>715717080
It's fun, but left me wanting.
The first half is great. Puzzles were small and sweet, and there's a nice progression.
The latter half is unfortunately boring filler. Uninteresting clothes theme, no new mechanics or tricks to learn at all, and the game ends too quickly.
Coupled with zero really difficult puzzles, there's nothing to really make me feel like I achieved something great.

Anyways, I recommend it for the first few chapters, until you reach the fashion chapter. The rest of the game is mostly a grind, from which you might find a little bit of amusement.

>>715717080
It's like a less polished Opus Magnum

>>715717259
>>715718413
I actually only played TIS100, and a bit of Shenzhen IO. I'll probably pick up some other titles soon.

Oh god my calculator design hurts my eyes, is there any way to speed up the bottom 6x piece process?

>>715719573
Try to occupy the spawn point as little as possible.
Every turn it's occupied means 1 more turn delayed for the next spawn.

>>715716202 (OP)
weld it

>>715716231
It was apparently due to company and ip jewery. They just fucked off and made a new company instead.

>>715718782
Opus Magnum is definitely their best one out of all the mechanical programming games

Couldn't figure out a way to cleanly get the center pieces in place, so I had to waste a cycle move it twice.

>>715720393
I like Opus Magnum, but the way all the esoteric bs is presented can get really annoying at times so i like the way Kaizen is presented in that regard.
>Gif too big
https://files.catbox.moe/tljk6u.gif

>>715719573
due to how the game works, you know that the minimum turns is 6 cause of how you need 6 pieces to dispense from the hole. you dont need to spend a turn to shift the stack if 3 buttons down.

>>715721297
im stupid, i should say "at least 6 turns". i was even watching anon's 5 turn clear when i was typing it too.

>>715721029
Make it a webm next time.

>>715721297
explain this
>>715720125

Gotta go fast

did I do good?

Those 2 flips at the end are wasteful.
>file too large
Wonder why they don't just let you export as webm or something.
https://files.catbox.moe/00f10l.gif

Is the scooter really the last puzzle or are there secret ones? The game ends ratger abruptly. Also favourite puzzle? I enjoyed the claw and the coffee maker, on the other hand I wasn't impressed by the clothing themed ones.

>>715726836
>better in time, area and cost
damn

>>715728378
I literally just finished it, damn that was abrupt. I was excepting at least a few more levels and at least a proper epilogue or something.

i get time and area, but how the hell is sandwich doable with just 20m?

>>715729430
Theoretically you only need 1 saw, welder, 1 grabber and some tract to get it done.

>>715728546
I just realized I left a useless rivet in place from an earlier design and would actually be even cheaper.

>>715729627
it took a lot of shuffling around but i finally got it

>>715721029
surely the later stages of kaizen become like this?
the game sort of just came out so people probably haven't gotten to the harder stuff yet.

>>715731750
This is why I don't really like minimizing cost in these types of games because it just devolves into 20 turns of fiddling around by constantly using the same equipment.

>>715731770
The games complexity is limited by the 4 actions per turn limit. It also lacks a proper finale. They probably just rushed the game out the door when it was about 80% done and called it a day.

>>715732068
so it scaled the simplicity even further from opus magnum, which is considered his simplest game?
damn.

>>715732213
To be fair he just came back from an extended break, so probably wanted to keep it simple. The game is just slightly too short to be satisfying.

What changed? Last I read from Zach was like "yeah I've had enough gamedev here's Last Call with some things I was playing around with see you space cowboy"

>>715732213
I wouldn't call opus magnum simple.
The reason why it's easy is because unlike his other games it has no limitations.
Even the challenge levels can be bruteforced by grabbers with stupidly long commands.

>>715716202 (OP)
Can somebody PLEASE explain why this is wrong? None of the parts appear upside down and it's all welded

That's one issue with this game, it isn't always clear why something doesn't work

>>715732635
lmao, i think you HAVE to demolish the excess left from the Body (you can see it on the right)
I had rebate left from the pachinko, only passed it after i removed it completely

>>715732881
>you HAVE to demolish the excess left from the Body
Why? And why don't they tell you that?

>>715732635
I think you need to delete the square of worthless material.

>>715732947
they thought you were taught basic manners and would clean up after yourself :)

It's not as satisfying as opus magnum.

>>715733780
I find it more so since it's less abstract
I also just really fucking hate hex grids

>>715728378
i wanted to make something similar but ended up with this

>>715734090
Nobody tell him.

>>715733780
Cutting, then slotting in the pieces and welding them tightly to each other is pretty satisfying.
But there is no substance or challenge in the game after the first half, and you're just left pushing around tetris pieces for a puzzle that you've already probably solved in your head.

>>715734197
You are actually retarded

Scooter level kinda kicked my ass but was a lot of fun. Looking forward to the bonus puzzles.

>>715718272
I felt the exact opposite. The clothing chapter is when the game started feeling challenging and fun to me.

>>715736341
>bonus puzzles

The what now?

>>715734197
Oh yes when I rotate something on a square grid it will use the diagonals but arbitrarily only two of them
And when I rotate a three-tile L shape on a square grid it will randomly warp and mirror itself

Any chance of getting workshop support?
User created levels would be kino

>>715716202 (OP)
Got bored of it towards the end of chapter 3, tried out exapunks for the first time instead and I've been having a lot more fun. Even bothered to print out the manuals for once.

>>715738378
As usual there'll be more harder puzzles added later. From the launch post:
>Look out for weekly bonus puzzles coming your way soon!

>>715731871
yeah...