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  2. In other news, I've just solved my 100th Sigmar's Garden in the puzzle game Opus Magnum and received The Way of the Immortal achievement.

    Apparently 7.7% of players have bagged this. Which makes me a little unfashionably proud. So there.

    Please boost 💜 Thank you!

    #opusmagnum #puzzlelover #AskMastodon

  3. started playing #opusmagnum again. Did a silly solution for purified gold hehe

  4. Not challenging anyone on any specific metric but I thought this was quite clean.
    #opusmagnum #zachtronics

  5. J’ai eu une envie soudaine de reprendre « Opus Magnum » il y a quelques jours.
    Je suis contente de moi.

    #OpusMagnum

  6. 𝕆𝕡𝕦𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕟𝕦𝕞 - 𝔸𝕚𝕣 𝔽𝕚𝕣𝕖
    #OpusMagnum #Zachtronics

  7. 𝕆𝕡𝕦𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕟𝕦𝕞 - 𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕍𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕖
    #OpusMagnum #Zachtronics

  8. 𝕆𝕡𝕦𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕟𝕦𝕞 - 𝔾𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕄𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕤
    #OpusMagnum #Zachtronics

  9. 𝕆𝕡𝕦𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕟𝕦𝕞 - 𝔾𝕠𝕝𝕕 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕪𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕣
    #OpusMagnum #Zachtronics

  10. #Zachtronics catalogue sale now through 10/17, everything 50% off! I love their open-ended engineering puzzle games, and there are a few other genres thrown in there too. Now's a good time to pick up any of their games if you've been on the fence. store.steampowered.com/sale/za

    #IndieGames #GamingDeals #Solitaire #PuzzleGames #SpaceChem #Infinifactory #OpusMagnum #LastCallBBS #BBS #Exapunks #ShenzhenIO #TIS100 #IroncladTactics

  11. July 30, 2023 - Day 211 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 230

    Game: Opus Magnum

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Dec 8, 2017
    Library Date: May 3, 2020
    Unplayed: 1184d (3y2m28d)
    Playtime: 23m

    Opus Magnum is a programming-puzzle game from Zachtronics. If you've encountered a Zachtronics game before, they're pretty much all along these lines. Well, they were along these lines, because in collecting some details about Opus Magnum, I learned that Zachtronics is no longer making games.

    There are only a handful of Zachtronics games I don't own at this point. Infinifactory is on my wishlist, and Last Call BBS is available on Xbox Game Pass.

    Opus Magnum is a puzzle game about programming and... alchemy?

    Indeed, in Opus Magnum you build and program small machines to make increasingly complex alchemical formulae.

    It's also a dangerous game for me, because it features my Kryptonite: systemisation & optimisation.

    I've lost countless hours in these types of games just trying to systemise my processes.

    But, as I discovered, Opus Magnum has a slightly keener edge. It has leaderboards. Not only am I trying to optimise my designs, but I can see that @tomcat is beating me.

    It's a good thing I'm in a shooty shooty mood today instead of an optimisation mood, or I could see the rest of my day disappearing in this quirky little puzzle game.

    The UX is a *little* bit confusing at first. It's not entirely clear how to start the first project. I clicked around on screen for a couple of minutes before unintentionally double-clicking on something I'd clicked on several times, but other than that, it seems pretty straightforward.

    Opus Magnum seems:

    4: Good

    #OpusMagnum #Puzzle #Programming #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

  12. Next, I played #WordFactori, which originally saw the light of day as an entry for the #GMTKJam 2021 and is now fleshed out into a full game. If you like managing and optimizing supply chains in games like #shapez, #OpusMagnum or #Factorio, you’ll probably have your fair share of fun with this. That being said, the main gimmick (you’re crafting letters of the alphabet) doesn’t shake things up enough for me to warrant a recommendation over any of the aforementioned titles.

  13. I feel like in general there's two kinds of #puzzlegames.

    The first kind involves the designer coming up with some super clever puzzle and you're supposed to figure out the solution the designer intended. This... I find extremely unsatisfying as a player because it doesn't really feel like I have much agency in the game.

    The second kind involves the designer setting some broad parameters and you can come up with your own solution within the constraints. This too can be unsatisfying because the solutions can feel trivial.

    But when the second kind is done right, there's also this meta layer of not just finding *a* solution, but finding *better* solutions. You get the first dopamine hit for clearing a puzzle... but then you see where you can improve it, and you get a BIGGER dopamine hit for doing the puzzle better.

    And holy heck #OpusMagnum is good at this. Being able to independently optimize your solutions for part cost, area, and command efficiency and then get satisfying AF gifs out of it is just brilliant, and it makes me feel like I should have a wheelbarrow to carry around my gigantic brain when I look at the solutions in motion.

    Gifs marked sensititive due to spoilers.

  14. I did a not terribly bright thing and started playing a particularly clever game at 1:30AM. #OpusMagnum is DANGEROUS and I can feel it hooking itself into the pleasure centers of my brain. I have no idea how I managed to put this down after only an hour and a half into the game, but this can easily turn into a timesink...

    Caution: puzzle game spoilers.

  15. I tried #Factorio for the first time today, saw what people enjoy about it, and finally figured out why I bounce off automation sims but devoured #OpusMagnum.

    Opus Magnum is a puzzle game about finding a solution, and then on to the next puzzle.

    Automation games are also about finding a solution, but the scenario is volatile. You solve it, but then you need a different item. You run out of resources. Etc. The solution keeps changing till you solve the WHOLE game. It's A Lot.

    #GameDev

  16. @boblyle Funnily enough I was doing this exact level when I decided to search for the #OpusMagnum tag... Here's my take on this.

  17. 𝕊𝕦𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝔽𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕖
    #opusmagnum

  18. Mijn oplossing versus ... (1/2) #opusmagnum

  19. Elegant is anders, maar wel snel! #opusmagnum

  20. Es muss nicht immer Action sein: Wir zeigen sechs Videospiele, die nur mit ein wenig Hirnschmalz zu knacken sind. Zocken mit Grips: Sechs Spiele, die das Hirn herausfordern​
  21. CW: #oddlysatisfying animation gif

    Opus Magnum is a great game in that there is no right way to solve a puzzle.
    First image: my naive solution. Then, a slight optimization: less cycles needed to produce 6 products. Then I went overboard with optimizing for cycles and realized in the end that it doesn't have to cost that much to do it in 27 cycles.
    #oddlysatisfying #opusmagnum

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