Разработчик: 4Bit Games
Описание
Prime Mover is a game about designing circuit boards from 4Bit Games.
In this open-ended puzzle game, you build circuit boards to solve a wide variety of logic and computer science inspired problems. Compare the speed and efficiency of your unique solutions with your friends and the world. Work your way from transistor to processor, uncover the story of the Byte of Burden!Design Circuit boards
- Design and build Circuit boards that solve a wide variety of logic and computer science inspired problems.Open-ended puzzles
- There are infinitely many ways to solve every puzzle, but some solutions are better than others! Compare your solutions with your friends on the online leaderboards and monitor trends with the global histograms.A toolbox of chips
- Utilize a wide variety of components in your quest for optimization! Create circuits boards within circuit boards, within circuit boards!Vibrant soundtrack
- Score by the amazing Jonathan Geer, composer of the Owlboy soundtrack.Uncover forgotten secrets
- Memory fragments are scattered across the blueprint. Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10 (or Vista with DirectX 11)
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 128MB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Mac
- OS: OS X 10.6 or later
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 MB RAM
- Graphics: 128MB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64bit / Steam OS 64bit
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 MB RAM
- Graphics: 128MB
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
The most AMAZING zachlike.
It introduces merely 8 functional components (and they are ALWAYS available - no gimmicks!), yet you build whole freaking memory and processing chips that run actual algorithms like finding prime numbers (it gets really challenging!)
✓ solving straightforward problems
✓ solving constrained challenges (optional)
✓ solving problems that build on previous problems (previously made chips inside chips inside chips)
✓ solving previous problems again because you want them to adhere to your new standards
✓ optimising throughput
✓ optimising shortest critical path/minimal delay for final operation
✓ optimising component count
✓ optimising all over again because your friend beat you
✓ charming
✓ mysterious
✓ banger
✓ juicy
This is definitely a programming zachlike. But it differs from a lot of other programming games by not being completely low level (you get integers instead of binary signals) but also not high level (only very simple tools, e.g. you only have an increment tool and not an adder), so you're solving low-level problems, but different ones than you might be used to.
It has a good ramp up on difficulty--reasonably challenging but in the end doable (took me ~40 hours to 100%). For the final puzzle I needed a page or two of notes to complete it, but the others were all solvable by editing in game. There are harder versions of a lot of the puzzles that are quite challenging compared to the easy puzzles, but still not as hard as the last puzzle.
The art and music are fun and do not detract from the game (about all you need in a zachlike IMO). On the other hand, the controls are limited and not that great. There is a copy/paste tool but I found it to be clunky to use, not always forming the right connections, not letting you replace circuits on their own, and no single-key vertical mirroring. It would have also been great to have some way to mark breakpoints for debugging to pause when a number went on a specific spot (or even just pausing at a specific cylce count without timing it yourself). A large scale erase tool would have also been nice, or an option to cut instead of copy.
It's fun to try to solve things in limited space because there are some tools that can be combined to make compact setups. However, this challenge is not that necessary nor incentivzed beyond a couple of the early hard mode levels with very limited space.
Overall, it was a nice game with some good challenges that were a bit different from the standard "design a cpu" puzzle game. But it could use some QoL upgrades. 8/10.
Came back to this after a long absence and would love to give it another try, but there's no option to reset progress and even the usual manual file deletion process doesn't work. Why is this very basic feature so very absent from the puzzle genre?!
(Also, the Linux version is broken, so you'll have to use Proton.)
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | 4Bit Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 23.12.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 87% положительных (138) |