wait what new Opus Magnum DLC just dropped?!

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

wait what new Opus Magnum DLC just dropped?!

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Game from 2017 that has not seen major updates since receiving a brand new $10 DLC was not on my 2026 bingo card

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Anyway Opus Magnum is IMO well-named and truly Zachtronics' magnum opus and if you haven't played the base game, you have to check it out!

Now excuse me while I try the DLC

[mcmartin@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous I split the Zachtronics oeuvre into "games about machines and games about programs" and Opus Magnum is the best of their games about machines and the best overall.

I give the nod to EXAPUNKS for the games about programs. It's the only one with a solid enough programming model to not feel like a dumb stunt but a weird enough one to not feel like I'm doing work.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcmartin Exapunks is my least favorite of their programming games by far, and the only one I haven't even finished the campaign for because I found it so annoying.

[mcmartin@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous For me that was TIS-100.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcmartin TIS-100 is the programming one I like most. :)

[mcmartin@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous I *do* appreciate that it's the one that got a plotline/setting-level sequel (Mobius Front's villains are very clearly the Bad Guys that show up in TIS-100's debug logs.)

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcmartin Don't care about this story in TIS at all. But it has by far the most interesting (and interestingly abusable) programming model of his games. (Mostly due to a single instruction that I won't get into.) It also has the most interesting puzzles.

Exapunks OTOH is pretty much a one trick pony, and I don't find it a very interesting trick.

[zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous See you in a few weeks

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous Oh why did you have to say this you bastard.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@zeux @rygorous Unfortunately my [wife] has [given] me [a disease] and so I am unable to work for the next [two maybe three] weeks.