What makes this shit so satisfying? It's like cathartic crack.
What makes this shit so satisfying? It's like cathartic crack
Jack Jones
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Landon Campbell
I really like this game.
Ryder Flores
because the solutions are all you, all the game gives you is an instruction and some tools
Joseph Wood
I love Opus Magnum because you can generally come up with mediocre solutions and then incrementally improve them, coming up with a-ha moments here and there, until finally you're in that top decile and it's 3am
Other puzzle games don't hook me as much because there's that wall, you either beat it or you didn't, and if you have beaten it, you can't really come back to it
Nathan Reyes
What do y'all try and optimize the most? Cycles? Area? Cost? a balance of all three?
Lincoln Robinson
I wish this game had more limitations. I don't like setting my own challenge, feels too arbitrary.
Jack Ross
Posting a few of my own solutions
Blake Price
Spins
Luis Robinson
never paid much attention to area/cost, though I'll clean those up a bit after cycle optimizing
Luke Sanchez
Jaxson Wood
Landon Sullivan
Carter Carter
>the cursed levels
Austin Ortiz
Parker Bell
beautiful
Zachary Jones
I'm the opposite.
Being provided a set of basic tools and left to come up with your own solution is my favorite thing about the game and I wish there were more puzzle games like this.
Wyatt Sanders
autism simulator
Anthony Diaz
Connor Scott
yeah, I've noticed on certain restraint-heavy levels in Zachtronics games, the leaderboards have huge spikes where just about everybody except for a few galaxy brains is in the same decile or two. it's still satisfying to beat, but for me the draw is in the iterative optimization and striving for cycle perfect
>simulator
user...
Daniel Parker
I have no idea what is happening in these gifs but it looks awesome
Jace Cook
Connor Cox
OPTIMIZE
Brandon Richardson
Eli Davis
the setting of the game is steampunk alchemy. you use machine parts to move around atoms, transmute them, bond them into molecules or unbond them, then finally deposit them, while avoiding everything from colliding with each other and trying to be as fast/compact/cheap as possible
Matthew Parker
I honestly forgot there's a pivot instruction. I spent forever trying to figure out how to flip the molecules lmao.
Mason Young
Separate solutions for each
Carter Hughes
This game always seemed to advanced for me. Are the dev's other games more accessible or less?
Ian Murphy
Did you try it out? It's not that complicated, almost feels like making an AMV
Jason Baker
Less, this is probably the simplest one.
James Lopez
opus magnum is probably the most accessible, honestly
infinifactory may be worth a try, it's a little different as it's 3d, but is a similar kind of spatial puzzle, assembling and moving various things in a factory with conveyor belts, welders, etc
Benjamin Cooper
Jaxson Cruz
lmao
Jonathan Perez
>Did you try it out? It's not that complicated
yeah, if you haven't tried it out, don't let people's solutions put you off, because people will mostly post things they're proud of, most people's first solutions look like crap
you don't have to get it right in one go, you can divide the problem into parts and go step by step, whoops those atoms collide, fix it, ahhhh both of those arms are grabbing the same molecule, fix it, hey it finally works but this one section looks slow, so now I think I can do better
that's not to say it doesn't get tough by the endgame, but I think the difficulty curve is pretty good
Nathaniel Morales
ive been trying to come to an answer for this for too long. I guess a balance. none of them are all that important to me, but none of them are unimportant
Ryder Sullivan
cost never seemed that fun to optimize for
I alternated between cycles and area depending on the puzzle and my mood
Adam Thompson
I've been looking at this solution for 5 minutes. It is mesmerizingly good.
Nathan Morris
I just did this one yesterday
Brody Rodriguez
Zachtronics will never make a game this good again
Christian Morales
Maybe infinifactory but other than that lmao no, it only goes up in difficulty.
Aaron Clark
Matthew Moore
Kayden Gomez
Brody Cook
This one doesn't even fucking loop, and even then I couldn't get it lower in cycles, some gigabrain chads lurking about I tell you
Brody Young
maybe they will
James Bell
Isaiah Miller
symmetrical ones are the best
James Lewis
Luis Evans
Genuine answer? You’re probably on the spectrum.
Jordan Bailey
You have use creativity and logic to overcome various problems in order to create the end result. Results vary per player because all humans think differently and there is no "one right answer" to anything, meaning these can be played and enjoyed by both brainlets and gigabrains.
Easton Fisher
>y'all
please die
Landon Cook
Bentley Flores
At the start I focused on elegant small and cost efective machines
But when I got the hang of it I started optimizing cycles, cost is almost braindead to optimize, and area is just boring for me
Wyatt Sanders
Brandon Turner
just bought it, what can I expect?
Zachary Bennett
fun and autism
Zachary Nelson
god cycle perfect is satisfying
Daniel James
Gavin Gray
I love optimizing for cycles with ridiculous contraptions. Haven't played in a while, I'll finish it some day.
Nolan Roberts
“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity" - Terry Davis
Thomas Ramirez
A "moving parts" metric would be nice idea, with the inclusion of a super cheap fixed arm
Nolan Stewart
They're as fun to make as they are to watch. Try it some time.
Chase Murphy
>simplicity
>uses a piston arm that never extends nor retracts
bro...
it looks great
Henry Phillips
Nathaniel Lopez
you can't use a fixed arm on a track.... I think??
John Mitchell
I have a few really old ones
Ryan Collins
Austin Peterson
Carter Johnson
Jonathan Reed
no you can, time go go save some $
Jack Bailey
Aiden Taylor
zachtronics games make me unable to enjoy shit like factorio desu since it just gets right to the core of the appeal
Ryan Barnes
post your waters
Ian Jenkins
That game looks even more autistic than the games by paradox
Easton Bell
Pretty sure it's possible to get less cycles but you'd need way higher complexity to get there. Still satisfying to get all those big arm movements to finally align just right