OCTOPTICOM

A very nice programming game. It doesn't have the polish of a zachtronics game, but delivers on a clean original programming puzzle experience. I was a bit skeptical going in, my experience with 'laser and mirror' puzzle games have been underwhelming. I hope there is a followup at some point, as my remaining levels are running low I am already missing this game. Beware, if you care about it: There is no story, just puzzles (this is a plus for me) I did run into one bug There is no copy and paste or saving sections of your solutions to be dropped into other levels (at least none that I saw). The length of the game is not huge if you are reasonably adept at programming puzzles It may take a bit to get your head around this as a programming game There is a very nice guide available. I found I rarely had to consult it but it was useful when I did; particularly for getting some of the 'optimized' results.

Would recommend. It has the kind of design that is difficult to make in zachlikes, where the puzzles are challenging but it's possible to make a clean and 'perfect' solution by thinking about the components in a different way. What I didn't like: the 'infinite loop' concept was a bit unintuitive at first; the music is fine, but the different genres and tonations clash and it feels kind of wrong; I found the UI to be a bit unpolished and some of the buttons ("I" and "G") to have unintuitive meanings. These are nitpicks ofc.