EXAPUNKS: Read zines, write viruses, hack everything

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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.

Oh god it's happening, Zach please be gentle. :ohdear:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/supsuper

Btw we have a Steam group, might be worth adding to the OP: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/goontronics

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 20:29

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:20

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.

Argue posted:

Is there no UI element somewhere that lets me battle top performers online? I can only fight people on my friend list it seems. I joined the Goontronics Steam group but I don't see anyone other than my actual friends on the leaderboards and histograms.

You can turn on the top percentile in the Options if you wanna compare yourself against that.

zedprime posted:

This fake IRC chat is killing it. EMBER less so. What does it say if fake IRC and Shenzhen email speak to me on a deep level. Other bits of Zachtronics narrative... doesn't.

TIS-100 was good until the twist ending.

Yeah Zach's overarching plots never really grabbed me, they're all "and then something dystopian happens", but I love all the flavor in the IRC chats, Shenzhen emails, Opus Mangum conversations, etc.

SupSuper fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 11, 2018

# ¿ Aug 11, 2018 18:56

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.

New Exapunks update with an important bugfix:

quote:

Fixed a bug where you could use M in global mode to communicate across non-existent links, like in the "modem" puzzles. This will invalidate some players' solutions to these puzzles, so the completion flags, leaderboards, and histograms for them have been reset.

Better go check if your solutions still work, specially if you want back in the leaderboard.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 05:04

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.

Zetsubou-san posted:

and as he stood atop the hack*match leaderboards he wept, for there were no more punks left to conquer

I got bad news for you.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2018 18:54

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.

Would be nice if you could automatically run your solution against every opponent.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2018 22:20

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.

mystes posted:

Is there any requirement for "leave no trace" other than having your exas terminate and not modifying files or leaving new files outside your host?

I started playing through this and I got to the "Xtreme League Baseball" level and I am producing the correct output file (since the box for "create the specified file in your host" is checked), all my exas terminate, and I haven't written to any other files, but for some reason it doesn't think that I have left no trace.

Are you accidentally moving host files? If you hold "show goal" you should be able to compare with your outcome.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2018 20:41

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!

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 02:12

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:20

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/

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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

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 01:50

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