I appreciate site local notifications. Got lots of e-mails by your website lately. :)

Which reminds me of something off topic: I tried to change away from KMail, but the feature I don't want to do without is having filters apply automatically or on key press, on per filter choice. It's very useful - show me the mail all in one place, inbox, but put it where it belongs on key press - but seems to be rather unusual?

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Quoting: subMy Notebook gets *very* hot (running on the intel IGP),
that's not the case on Windows 10 (same machine).
Do you experience something similar?
The graphics don't look very demanding...

I did not yet try Shenzen, but I had that with "J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars". That's not demanding either - it just ran at several thausand(!) FPS...

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Quoting: EhvisUnfortunately, I'm still haven't finished any of them. TIS-100 will probably be the first one. I only need one puzzle from the main section and it is typical of the difference between programming and these puzzles. It requires you to write a data sort algorithm for number sequences. I could write that in real assembly code in 10 minutes. So far I've tried for at least two hours and failed to solve the problem. I will figure it out! I refuse to look up the solution! Do I really need more brain torture from zack? Hmmmmm. Maybe. :D

I think that was the puzzle I failed to solve. Still didn't look it up, still want to do it. One day...!

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Quoting: km3kI did! (I was a tester for the Linux version too. :D ) If the structure was more like HRM, it might be easier to do a tutorial.

How I both hated and loved the prime check optimization...! X)

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Quoting: km3kI haven't played Infinifactory, but with TIS-100, I think it would be very difficult to make a good tutorial.

Did you play Human Ressource Machine? (You should! :) )
It does a better job in slowly introducing what you need.

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Quoting: Guest"Overwhelmingly positive" means nothing, and this is another proof.

"Overwhelmingly positive" IMHO means that the game does very well on delivering what it promises. Thus, very positive reviews for a pixel art rogue-like means nothing to me, while the same for a programmer's game means it very probably will be fun for me - which turned out true for TIS-100 and Human Ressource Machine (and I am very optimistic for Shenzen I/O).

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I totally will buy and play this! ...after having (started and) finished Infinifactory. :)

I always wonder how hard such games are for non-programmers.
I think Human Ressource Machine should be possible, while TIS-100 is probably too hard (and abstract).
I enjoyed both.

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Quoting: KeyrockI've been playing this for about a week and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. If you've ever played Myst then you know what to expect; there are strange machines and items that you need to figure out on your own how they work and what their purpose is. There are hints for all the puzzles scattered about but they're often hidden and even when the hints are out in the open you need to figure out on your own what they mean and which puzzle they correspond to.

Thanks for the warning! ;)

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That looks really nice, and I'm into puzzling, but what's detering me from it is the reference to Myst...

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Quoting: starsaboveusAlso: I'm amazed by how many responses this article has attained! Woo!

Clearly tells that while IMHO, Linux gaming is in a good state, we're still missing stuff.

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