ZIRQUITZ Reviews

This game has potential. Not quite what I thought it would be going in; I thought there would be more math to it, more puzzle aspects, more strategy, more variations on things. You quickly find that the optimal strategy is [spoiler]generate 1 bits as fast as possible with Copy/Mirror+Not (3 node types), and then concatenate them with Merge/Buffer (2 node types), and then dump them into the highest level ConvertXXXX you can afford, only 6 unique node types in total (8 if you count the 2 for the input bit generation, OnTick+Split) once you've reached ConvertWord[/spoiler]. There isn't much strategy beyond that; this is the fastest way to produce "Work". Giving a thumbs up and not refunding because I like the uniqueness, the idea behind the game, and I want to see more games try things like this, although the execution isn't really there. I would recommend to the developer: - Achievements are nice, but add goals in-game so that we have something to work towards - Change the nodes available and how they work. Give them more variety, more kinds of functions/abilities than just simple logic gates. Most of the given nodes are simply not useful because they are less optimal than the strategy mentioned above. It would be interesting to have something like "generate X pattern to produce Y Work" or something totally different, I don't know. Something puzzley. It feels limiting that the only optimal strategy is "fill the converters with 1s". Maybe even [spoiler]completely delete Copy/Mirror and force the player to do clever things with a fixed rate of result bits[/spoiler]. - Please allow players to delete or downgrade nodes, I had to just dump my useless nodes off to the side - Take some inspiration from games like The Gnorp Apologue or Idle Colony and their progressions, with production rates that scale over time over many magnitudes, different ways to increase the number, enable-able bonuses, and victory conditions