https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

EXAPUNKS is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of Opus Magnum, SHENZHEN I/O, TIS-100, and more.

I received it as a gift and started playing and … I have questions. I am playing it on Ubuntu, and it’s working great. I don’t login anywhere else though so I’m hoping I can find people to talk to about it on Lemmy.

Cheers if you have played and can help. Sorry to bother otherwise.

Questions!

  1. How does it know who my steam friends are? Is that just an api or something?

  2. What are size, cycles and activity? It shows me these things but I can’t find an explanation.

Thanks!

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    I last played it in 2021. Steam says I have the achievement “Complete every task in the main campaign”, but I seem to recall not finding this game as fun as the other Zachtronics games.

    1. Yes, many Steam games use a few API calls to integrate with Steam, such as seeing your friend list, usually to invited them to a multiplayer game. Hit shift-tab to see the Steam overlay in any game to get an idea for what this API can do.

    2. They are a measure of the cost of your solution. They account for things like how many total squares you touched, how many total instructions were executed, and how much parallelization you had.

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    Haven’t played it (probably in my wishlist), so I can’t help directly, but I can offer this: go ahead and ask the questions. If someone else around here has, then they can jump in to comment with advice and answers at any point in time later.

    One of the perks of forum-style comms like this.

  • idoit@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    Loved this game! Really liked the cyberpunk vibes and even printed out the zines into little booklets. It’s been a while since I played but what kind of questions did you have?