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Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] by duskwuff on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:09PM (#21176998)
Another older but really good Zachtronics game that I like to recommend is KOHCTPYKTOP, which simulates something similar to MOS semiconductor logic. Your job is to build ICs which conform to predefined stimulus/response patterns.

Unfortunately, it requires Flash, so it may be difficult to get to run in a browser nowadays. Totally worth it, though!

http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...

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Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] by cmaggard on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:47AM (#21177598)
It's also available in ZACH-LIKE [0], a free compilation of a bunch of his earlier flash games. Windows-only, however.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

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Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] by Tepix on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:54AM (#21178438)
Zach-Like is primarily "A book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics."

Now that the kickstarter is finished it's available for free as PDF (link in parent post)

"In addition to PDFs of the book, the digital version contains all pre-SpaceChem Zachtronics games and a bunch of early builds and prototypes, including some of the unreleased games depicted in ZACH-LIKE."

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Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] by i_don_t_know on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:57AM (#21179737)
KOHCTPYKTOP heavily inspired Pavel Krivanek's PharoChipDesigner which runs in Pharo Smalltalk 8.0:

https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/PharoChipDesigner

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Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] by abtinf on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:12AM (#21178242)
This sounds similar to a more recent Zachtronics game, Shenzhen I/O. How does it compare?
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Re:Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video] by dancek on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:22AM (#21178295)
They're very different. SHENZHEN I/O is mostly about microcontroller programming. KOHCTPYKTOP has you building semiconductors by drawing lines. Of course the latter influenced the former, but the gameplay is just completely different.

There are videos of both online if you want to get a better idea.

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