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"They were totally game to play ball": how Zachtronics almost made a Star Trek engineering sim

Rock Paper Shotgun·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·24 days ago
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The forgotten pitch behind Coincidence's new puzzler U.V.S. Nirmana Image credit: Coincidence This week the former Zachtronics folk of Coincidence released U.V.S. Nirmana , a new "Zach-like" puzzler that has fairly spaghettified my synapses, despite being billed as "medium-difficulty". It puts you in charge of a monastic spacecraft embarked on a pilgrimage through the galaxy, steeped in references to Dharmic religions. During your voyages, you'll help other civilisations with their philosophical dilemmas using a cosmic reactor that functions like a music sequencer. You'll join up pipes and components to resolve relationships between terms like "form", "amen" and "svaha" , doing your best to minimise "flux". Playing the opening few puzzles, I felt a mixture of excitement and guilt. Excitement, because while I barely understand what's going on, I love the ritual obtuseness of, say, trying to distil "light" and "sound" into "thought" by means of valves and relays.…

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