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Exapunks system requirements6/30/2023 “GRAB 300” will grab make your robot grab anything labelled “300”, “LINK 800” will make your robot move along the labelled pathway and “COPY F X” copies the value highlighted in the held file, F, to the EXAs own internal memory, X. There’s a unique coding language in EXAPUNKS that uses simple commands to tell your EXAs, little digital robots, to do a certain action upon something. Speaking of hands, you also have your own body, it’s odd EXAPUNKS isn’t any different and does an incredible job at teaching you how to tackle the various puzzles, except in a very hands off way that can also lead to issues much further down the line. That’s as far as it goes in terms of anything close to a story, like many other Zachtronics games it’s somewhat light on any major narrative, but what you’re mainly here for is the in-depth puzzle solving. Don’t ask, I don’t think it’s ever explained. You also happen to make friends with some form of advanced AI that lives in your computer and has a penchant for changing road signs and restaurant review ratings. Although, someone could come to your actual house and give it to you if you don’t have a printer, I guess. Not your actual house, obviously, your in game house. Thankfully you’re not expected to just know how to program and hack from the get go as a friendly man will come to your house and give you a printable zine all about hacking and bank security systems and the like. You’re some bedroom bound individual who has sadly come down with the phage, a disease that hopes to convey its deadliness exclusively through its name, and have to once again return the land of hacking in order to pay for doses of medication. Working has never been so easy, ignoring the time spent working this out (Obviously there may be some mild solutions to some of the puzzles in the various screenshots in the review, but also don’t worry about it)ĮXAPUNKS (Which I believe is an abbreviation for Exciting Xylophone Audio Producing Unique New Kink Systems) is a game all about hacking, but if hacking were like in a terrible movie from the 90s, where everyone wears aviator shades even though they’re in doors and also in the dark, and not like actual hacking, which I assume is very boring and also a crime. It’s another Zachtronics game, which can only mean a seemingly complex, but satisfyingly simple puzzle game about coding that’ll make you feel like some kind of genius who should actually be holding the UN to ransom instead of sat in their pajamas in the middle of the day, or is that just me?
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