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
    7·
    13 days 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.