Today's update includes the following changes: Fixed an issue where the mouse would sometimes be misaligned on Macbooks. Changed histograms to pull from a local file rather than our live histogram server.
Today's update includes the following changes:
Microsoft have laid out their PC Game Pass plans for the second half of August, adding another eight games to the subscription service across the remaining weeks then removing eight at the end of the month. Additions include Zachtronics hacking game Exapunks and Ubisoft's child-f
Microsoft have laid out their PC Game Pass plans for the second half of August, adding another eight games to the subscription service across the remaining weeks then removing eight at the end of the month. Additions include Zachtronics hacking game Exapunks and Ubisoft's child-friendly open world 'em up Immortals Fenyx Rising. Alas, games going include the wonderfully sad What Remains Of Edith Finch and wonderfully wonderful Hades.
Microsoft has announced the next batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass . Titles include Immortality, Tinykin, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Coffee Talk, Commandos 3 - HD Remaster and more. First up is today's release of Coffee Talk , the coffee brewing and talking s
Microsoft has announced the next batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
Titles include Immortality, Tinykin, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Coffee Talk, Commandos 3 - HD Remaster and more.
First up is today's release of Coffee Talk, the coffee brewing and talking simulator we told you about earlier.
Today's update fixes a bug where the custom puzzle list did not update when a puzzle was deleted, which could lead to a crash when attempting to delete the puzzle again. Thanks go out to the embarrassingly large number of people who reported this issue to me before we were able t
Today's update fixes a bug where the custom puzzle list did not update when a puzzle was deleted, which could lead to a crash when attempting to delete the puzzle again. Thanks go out to the embarrassingly large number of people who reported this issue to me before we were able to get around to fixing it!
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS , the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics!
The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
Includes eight full games:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511780/Last_Call_BBS/
Today's update fixes the crash handler and histograms. Nothing else should be affected.
Today's update fixes the crash handler and histograms. Nothing else should be affected.
The minds behind Opus Magnum and Infinifactory are dropping another clever game for ya. Möbius Front ’83 is a new strategy game by Zachtronics set in a past where the United States is being invaded by its dark realm self. Möbius Front ’83 will launch its turn-based tactical battl
The minds behind Opus Magnum and Infinifactory are dropping another clever game for ya. Möbius Front ’83 is a new strategy game by Zachtronics set in a past where the United States is being invaded by its dark realm self. Möbius Front ’83 will launch its turn-based tactical battles in November. (more…)
Thanks to the magic of on-demand printing, we're finally able to offer EXAPUNKS zines that are the same quality as our original print run from 2018. They're quite snazzy! A complete set with both issues is available on Lulu.com and costs about $7 plus shipping: If you're going to
Thanks to the magic of on-demand printing, we're finally able to offer EXAPUNKS zines that are the same quality as our original print run from 2018. They're quite snazzy!
A complete set with both issues is available on Lulu.com and costs about $7 plus shipping:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/zachtronics-/trash-world-news-issue-1/paperback/product-wke9y4.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/zachtronics-/trash-world-news-issue-2/paperback/product-pgyr97.html
If you're going to get one, make sure you get them both, as you'll need them both to play the game. Obviously, buying these isn't necessary in any capacity; the game includes high-quality PDFs that you can view on your computer or print yourself.
Today's Deal: Save 50% on EXAPUNKS !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
Today's Deal: Save 50% on EXAPUNKS!*
Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
*Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time
Cor, kids have it easy nowadays. Sure, they’re inheriting a polluted hellhole teetering on the brink of ecological and economic ruin, but look at all the neat games they get to grow up with. Thanks to Zachtronics announcing they’re giving away (nearly) all their games to schools,
Cor, kids have it easy nowadays. Sure, they’re inheriting a polluted hellhole teetering on the brink of ecological and economic ruin, but look at all the neat games they get to grow up with. Thanks to Zachtronics announcing they’re giving away (nearly) all their games to schools, some of them even get to muck about with fabulously inventive puzzle boxes during their pretend workday. Imagine that! Privileged tykes.
Today's update fixes a minor graphical issue in the options screen background.
Today's update fixes a minor graphical issue in the options screen background.
This update fixes an obscure bug where bad histogram data could cause the game to crash.
This update fixes an obscure bug where bad histogram data could cause the game to crash.
We’ve been hacked! As well as a fake festival of online retail excess, Cyber Monday is now a celebration of hacker games and everything ‘cyber’. This is the hAcKeR collective {{Synonymous Bosch}}. We have taken control of this aRt1cLe. Three years ago it was written by the untale
We’ve been hacked! As well as a fake festival of online retail excess, Cyber Monday is now a celebration of hacker games and everything ‘cyber’.
This is the hAcKeR collective {{Synonymous Bosch}}. We have taken control of this aRt1cLe. Three years ago it was written by the untalented and scurrilous journalist Brendan Caldwell, a man lacking in both knowledge and substance. But we have gained access in order to correct his egregious errors. It s a hack of a hack! Ha ha ha. We had our best joke cell work on that for three nights. Please laugh. Our detractors may say Mr Caldwell got it mostly right, and that may be the case, yes. But the order is aLL Wr0nG. And he has neglected to update it with a recent hit. We cannot let this stand. Here is an updated list which, actually, looking at it now, is still mostly Mr Caldwell s words and I guess they re okay. Sorry we said those nasty things. We are {{Synonymous Bosch}}. We sometimes forgive. We often forget.
The same rules apply as last time: you have two weeks to submit up to two solutions for the selected hacker battle (Valhalla). Solutions will be run against each other and hopefully a clear winner will emerge. Full details here: Congratulations to Bacardi (the EXAPUNKS player, no
The same rules apply as last time: you have two weeks to submit up to two solutions for the selected hacker battle (Valhalla). Solutions will be run against each other and hopefully a clear winner will emerge. Full details here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exapunks/comments/9wirk5/hacker_battle_competition_valhalla/
Congratulations to Bacardi (the EXAPUNKS player, not the beverage company), who was the winner of the last hacker battle competition. Statistics and some videos of the best solutions are available here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exapunks/comments/9vf7ue/hacker_battle_kgogtv_results/
Today's update fixes a bug where the game would sometimes fail to detect keyboard input when typing code quickly while the game was running at a low framerate.
Today's update fixes a bug where the game would sometimes fail to detect keyboard input when typing code quickly while the game was running at a low framerate.
If hacker battling your Steam friends on an individual basis isn't dramatic enough for you, consider participating in the first sanctioned EXAPUNKS hacker battle competition! There's a little less than a week remaining for you to submit your best solutions to the KGOG TV battle a
If hacker battling your Steam friends on an individual basis isn't dramatic enough for you, consider participating in the first sanctioned EXAPUNKS hacker battle competition! There's a little less than a week remaining for you to submit your best solutions to the KGOG TV battle and see if you're among the best.
Read the full rules here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exapunks/comments/9qhwqa/hacker_battle_competition_kgogtv/
Today's update fixes a bug with the hacker battle win counter where it was sometimes off by one but almost completely obscured so that you couldn't see it anyway.
Today's update fixes a bug with the hacker battle win counter where it was sometimes off by one but almost completely obscured so that you couldn't see it anyway.
After a few months of bug fixes, feature improvements, and the addition of a new bonus campaign, EXAPUNKS has left Early Access! To mark the release we're offering a 20% launch discount, available for the next week. If you missed the EXAPUNKS limited edition pre-order, we still h
After a few months of bug fixes, feature improvements, and the addition of a new bonus campaign, EXAPUNKS has left Early Access! To mark the release we're offering a 20% launch discount, available for the next week.
If you missed the EXAPUNKS limited edition pre-order, we still have a few copies available! The package includes a professionally printed copy of each of the two zines, plus a pair of 3D glasses for the TEC Redshift and the mysterious secret envelope. It does not include the game, which must be purchased separately. Orders are $20 in the USA and $30 outside, which both include shipping. Send me an email ([email protected]) if you're interested.
If there’s three things Zachlikes have become known for, it’s programming-inspired puzzling, histograms and animated victory recordings to gloat over on Twitter – now Exapunks has all three. After a brief tour of early access, grungy retro-cyberpunk hacking sim Exapunks is free t
If there’s three things Zachlikes have become known for, it’s programming-inspired puzzling, histograms and animated victory recordings to gloat over on Twitter – now Exapunks has all three. After a brief tour of early access, grungy retro-cyberpunk hacking sim Exapunks is free to rampage across the internet. While no patch notes have rolled out for the official version 1.0 release, a patch a few days ago introduced the animated victory GIFs we all know and love, displaying scores and EXA movements, although not the code within.
My EXA, a digital bug-looking thing made of code, scurries out into rooms representing nodes in a factory's network. Following the program I painstakingly wrote for it, the EXA disrupts this network with precision before running the HALT command to self-destruct. There is no trac
My EXA, a digital bug-looking thing made of code, scurries out into rooms representing nodes in a factory's network. Following the program I painstakingly wrote for it, the EXA disrupts this network with precision before running the HALT command to self-destruct. There is no trace of the fact I have hacked this factory, except that the snack bars it produces no longer contain peanuts. It's the little victories.
Later I hack a street sign so it reads WAKE UP SHEEPLE and want to punch the air in triumph. Exapunks is the latest from Zachtronics, creators of tricky puzzle games like Opus Magnum and Infinifactory that are all about moving things from one place to another, and hacking games like TIS-100 that are all about typing made-up but believable code into computers. Exapunks connects the two, providing space for code and a visualization of that code's effect, which is mostly moving things about.
In this alternate dystopian 1997 I've got the phage, a disease that slowly turns my skin into useless microchips like a crap cyborg. I can only afford medicine if I agree to perform arbitrary hacking jobs for a mysterious lady who doesn't understand human emotions and is totally not an AI. Sometimes that's making ATMs dispense cash for free, sometimes it's the peanut job.
Exapunks doesn't mess around. The tutorial throws you right in it, expecting you to learn by reading a manual that comes in the form of an in-universe zine you can print out or just alt-tab to in a pdf reader. This zine, Trash World News, is a lovely little artifact that, as well as teaching commands like LINK to switch hosts and GRAB to interact with files, implies a whole community of helpful cyberpunks. So do the conversations on Chatsubo in the corner of my screen between levels and the occasional visitors at the door.
That's more than just world-building, it's a hint about how to get the most out of this game. You shouldn't go alone. There's a real-world community on the Steam forums and the subreddit that's grown during its time in Early Access, and seeking them out for advice is essential. This is a game that requires a kind of programmer thinking you either have or you don't, and as someone who very much doesn't, I needed help.
My solutions are ugly and often involve multiple EXAs programmed with slight variations on the same code to deal with every possible eventuality. Cleverer players use commands like REPL to make replica EXAs containing cloned code that doesn't hurt their score. They're efficient in ways I not only don't think of, but never would.
The programming language is robust enough it can even be used to make games within the game. When I got hold of a GameBoy-looking cyberpunk handheld called the Redshift I could write my own arcade games onto it, and play ones made by other people for a break when solving puzzles started to feel like work. There are a couple of minigames to unlock as well including a Russian solitaire variant, and there's a competitive mode that tests your code against against another player's. Both these things give me headaches.
Exapunks shares with Zachtronics' previous game Opus Magnum the idea it's OK to brute-force a puzzle. You'll still unlock the next level and story snippet, but you won't make the leaderboards. To do that you need to try harder, tweaking commands to use fewer lines of code, create fewer EXAs, be more elegant.
Exapunks is a two-coffee game, one that requires focus and alertness. Even then, there's a hard limit on how good I'll ever be. I feel out of my depth, like a smart dog who graduated puppy school and has been put in a physics class. Infinifactory and Opus Magnum remain the Zachtronics games I'd recommend to people, but if you aced both of those and are ready to graduate, Exapunks is the next level.