Posted June 20, 2022
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Zach Barth, who is Zachtronics, have decided to stop making games. As he recently got full time employment, he finds it impossible to have a full time job and continue making games, so have decided to focus on work.
This is indeed sad news, as Zachtronics have produced some truely innovative and original games, which has influenced a lot of games and arguably created a new genre, the programmable games. not to mention that he created the small game Infiniminer, witch a certain Notch ripped of creating Minecraft.
But while inifinmier was important as the grandaddy of al voxel based surival games, his best games are the original puzzle / coding games such as SpaceChem, Exapunks, Infinifactory and the very sublime Opus Magnum (which i personally have as one of the 10 best games ever made).
It is not all sad news, as he is working on his last (and this will be the last) game: Last Call BBS - https://www.zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/
This is not only one game, but consists of 8 different games in one package. so while it is sad to see Zachtronics go, at least there is this last game to look forward to.
This is indeed sad news, as Zachtronics have produced some truely innovative and original games, which has influenced a lot of games and arguably created a new genre, the programmable games. not to mention that he created the small game Infiniminer, witch a certain Notch ripped of creating Minecraft.
But while inifinmier was important as the grandaddy of al voxel based surival games, his best games are the original puzzle / coding games such as SpaceChem, Exapunks, Infinifactory and the very sublime Opus Magnum (which i personally have as one of the 10 best games ever made).
It is not all sad news, as he is working on his last (and this will be the last) game: Last Call BBS - https://www.zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/
This is not only one game, but consists of 8 different games in one package. so while it is sad to see Zachtronics go, at least there is this last game to look forward to.
Post edited June 20, 2022 by amok