Tag: zachtronics
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Zachtronics’ EXAPUNKS in Early Access
The latest programmo-puzzler from Zachtronics, EXAPUNKS, is available in Steam’s Early Access home for wayward and incomplete games. This is another game in the style of TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O, with this one focusing more on explicitly hacking the system, man. There’s something wonderful about Zachtronics’ programming games. Each one has a special theme, and…
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Zachtronics’ EXAPUNKS Announced For August
The Zachtronics behind the other programmatical puzzlers like TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O have announced a new one of those, EXAPUNKS. I can’t explain how much I love these games, both for their niche and the wonderful aesthetic each game embodies so well. In this adventure you’re an ex-hacker with a bad case of the phage…
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Opus Magnum
Opus Magnum, the new game from Zachtronics. One look at the trailer and I can tell that this machine designer is probably not for me, even though I very much enjoyed my time with TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O. Maybe Opus Magnum is for you. It’s out now on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux at $20.
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SHENZHEN I/O Released out of Early Access
Zachtronic’s latest programming game, Shenzhen I/O, has exited Steam’s Early Access program. Vaguely similar to PICO-8’s fantasy console, but Shenzhen should be most familiar to people who played TIS-100. I wrote a little bit about TIS here last year, where I wondered “who the heck writes assembly today unless they’re writing code for embedded systems?”…
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TIS-100
After trying a bit of Pico-8 I was still craving another fantasy micro-computer. That’s where TIS-100 comes in: TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!…