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Balatro is a lot of fun, but maybe a bit too random.
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Personally I’d point people towards Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is basically just a Zachtronics game anyway (simulated world inside your computer which operates under specific rules, you can manipulate things inside the world in order to try and achieve your goals, you need to avoid banana peels, etc)
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Feb 28, 2024 21:40
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Sunshine Heavy Industries is pretty cool. Each level is a challenge to build a spaceship with specific constraints. There are a lot of cool puzzles based on adjacency bonuses. And you can optimize for different metrics.
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Feb 28, 2024 23:45
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hyphz posted:Balatro is a lot of fun, but maybe a bit too random. That starts going away over time as you unlock more uncommon jokers and have access to better deck shaping tools
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Feb 29, 2024 00:40
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It can do, but access to those jokers and deck shaping tools is also random. You’re betting you get offered a combination which can make a meaningful engine and don’t get a blind that shuts it down. One of the nice things about Zachtronics games is that they’re largely deterministic, so you can experiment with reliable results. If you got through the harder Zachtronics programming games you might as well go to codingame.com and actually program game solutions.
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Feb 29, 2024 02:19
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Balatro is if like every time you opened a Zachtronics level, you were only allowed to use a randomly picked 10% of the instruction set
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Feb 29, 2024 08:43
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ymgve posted:Balatro is if like every time you opened a Zachtronics level, you were only allowed to use a randomly picked 10% of the instruction set
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Feb 29, 2024 09:54
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I've been wishing, literally since 1989 came and went, for an updated version of Omega. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(video_game) I still have the manual sitting on my shelf. I've never found a game that scratches quite the same itch. TheCenturion fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Feb 29, 2024 14:24
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TheCenturion posted:I've been wishing, literally since 1989 came and went, for an updated version of Omega. Are you aware of Carnage Heart EXA on PSP? I have never played Omega myself, but the description seems reasonably close.
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Feb 29, 2024 15:24
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Or the original Carnage Heart on PSOne.
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Feb 29, 2024 16:58
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Screeps Arena? Desynced?
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fezball posted:Are you aware of Carnage Heart EXA on PSP? I have never played Omega myself, but the description seems reasonably close. I am, as well as Mindrover and a few others. I like the chunky, old-school procedural code. Seems like a perfect fit for a Zachtronics game, if he ever decides he wants to make more. Like Shenzhen I/O.
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Just do some actual code on a Spectrum Next emulator  I wish there was a fantasy console that supported bare metal ARM. Ideally the older version with the funky condition codes.
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My favourite video game: Qemu
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Zach's new studio Coincidence quietly released a game called Add Astra on Steam a few weeks ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870750/Add_Astra/ It's an educational game aimed at elementary schools so not that exciting in itself, but means that he's back to making games now. More interesting is that the new puzzle game publisher Astra Logical shows an untitled upcoming Coincidence project in their games list: https://astralogical.org/
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Bill Decker posted:Zach's new studio Coincidence quietly released a game called Add Astra on Steam a few weeks ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870750/Add_Astra/ Not satisfied with making games for big nerds, Zach sets out to teach a new generation of nerds!
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Bill Decker posted:Zach's new studio Coincidence quietly released a game called Add Astra on Steam a few weeks ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870750/Add_Astra/ Thanks for this. Add Astra is super cheap and my son has been adding and subtracting away for like an hour now
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