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Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


I just grinned like a maniac and laughed in a whisperlike manner as to not wake up my flatmate after figuring out Unknown Network 1 without making a complete mess of the thing. These games bring me such joy.

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Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


By the way, when y'all are talking about recursion, is it just a mark/jump loop or something more complex?

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Black Griffon posted:

By the way, when y'all are talking about recursion, is it just a mark/jump loop or something more complex?

In Exapunks, recursion usually involves duplicating exas, and the duplicates will duplicate some more.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


nielsm posted:

In Exapunks, recursion usually involves duplicating exas, and the duplicates will duplicate some more.

Ah, then I think I've got the hang of the basics.

Man with Hat
Dec 26, 2007

Open up your Dethday present
It's a box of fucking nothing

Exciting Lemon
I can't believe I didn't look for an Exapunks thread earlier. I've been playing this on and off since it came out and I love going back into it and just try to make something a little bit better than it was.

Added a bunch of you who posted steam ID's so if Mickrov sent a friend request out of nowhere it's because I wanted more people on my leaderboards! Some of you are really good at this game, it's mind blowing.

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
I found this game today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/984800/Automachef/

It feels like a Zach-like. Wrangling various components into a limited space, programming them, and producing an output.

SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.
Every Zach fan should probably check this out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

It's a compilation of his design documents, prototypes and early Flash games. And it's free!

TheCenturion
May 3, 2013
HI I LIKE TO GIVE ADVICE ON RELATIONSHIPS
All I want is a modern version of Omega. I want to program cybertanks.

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

SupSuper posted:

Every Zach fan should probably check this out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

It's a compilation of his design documents, prototypes and early Flash games. And it's free!

Oh man thanks for this. I missed out on the hard copy because getting it shipped here was going to be crazy expensive and didn't see this launch.

Orthogonalus
Feb 26, 2008
Right angles ONLY

Guy Axlerod posted:

I found this game today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/984800/Automachef/

It feels like a Zach-like. Wrangling various components into a limited space, programming them, and producing an output.

Confirmed, it seems cool. Release date is in a couple of weeks but there's a demo out already.

WhiteHowler
Apr 3, 2001

I'M HUGE!

Orthogonalus posted:

Confirmed, it seems cool. Release date is in a couple of weeks but there's a demo out already.
I picked it up yesterday, and it seems solid. Kind of like a cross between Factorio and a Zachtronics game.

I'm only a few levels in, but I like it so far. No coding, but a lot of logic and spatial puzzling.

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
Automachef is part of the Twitch Prime free games so check it out if you have Amazon Prime.

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Guy Axlerod posted:

Automachef is part of the Twitch Prime free games so check it out if you have Amazon Prime.

Thanks for the tip, friendo.

SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.
Here we go again: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1168880/MOLEKSYNTEZ/

quote:

  • MAKE DRUGS - Program your molecular synthesizer (MOLEK-SYNTEZ) to convert ordinary industrial chemicals like benzene, acetone, and hydrochloric acid into a variety of small molecules with various pharmacological effects.
  • SHOW OFF - Optimize your solutions and share them with the world using the built-in score histograms, friend leaderboards, and animated GIF exporter.
  • CHEAT AT CARDS - In a move that should surprise no one, MOLEK-SYNTEZ contains an original Zachtronics solitaire game. When you get stuck, cheat and place your cards wherever you want. Just don't do it so much that you get in over your head...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqf1V5tCaXM

Zomborgon
Feb 19, 2014

I don't even want to see what happens if you gain CHIM outside of a pre-coded system.

We'll probably do a new thread but I wanted to be the first to say

Opening up the precursor catalog to *whatever you want* after the first two is simply evil

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
Yeah the games a little tougher than Magnus opum imo. I made a thread in yospos for it btw.

Phssthpok
Nov 7, 2004

fingers like strings of walnuts
Here we go again: https://store.steampowered.com/app/971160/Mbius_Front_83/

  • Turn-based tactics
  • TIS-330 programmable radio
  • Cribbage solitaire

little munchkin
Aug 15, 2010

ymgve posted:

Someone is not a good programmer just because they get on top of the Exapunks scoreboards. Rather the contrary, if the hacks required for size/speed domination was used in a real programming job, your code reviewer would murder you with a rusty spoon.

Collorary to this is that being on the bottom of the scoreboards does not make you a bad programmer.

we need a documentation-themed zactronics game

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Sax Solo
Feb 18, 2011



One way it is like real programming is when I look back on this old code I have no loving idea what was going on.

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