SHENZHEN I/O Reviews

Classic Zachtronics game, a must have

I had fun but also beware, as the game gets harder it can become quite frustrating due to having way too few registers and lines of code to do the work. The entire point is about finding non-obvious ways to fit everything within the constraints. Staring at the screen for hours making little to no progress is tough. This game shows very well how different designs can do the job, but some of them will be way more efficient than others. I was confused at first how tests work by prefixing subsequent lines with +/- until I learned that's actually a real thing and how ARM works (testing sets a special flag and all instructions can be executed conditionally depending on the value of that flag).

I work with embedded systems and this game is like that except you don't have to stop playing solitaire

Challenging coding puzzler. Most players must be engineers, because I'm wracking my brain to come up with efficient solutions and the efficiency graph usually shows them below average for all three efficiency metrics. EDIT: I soon figured out that I was using extra components because I wasn't making use of the fact that the four pins on the cheapest chip can be used as either input or output.

I might just be stupid, but unless you're an actual software engineer I don't see how this game could be fun past the first 5 levels or so.

Either this is the most boring game in the world or it's one of the best, most unique programming puzzle games you've ever played and you wish the assembly language and tools given to you were even more powerful. If you're reading this, it's probably the latter.

I do building automation for work, this game is useful for understanding I/O devices and logic. Our programming language is obviously different, but this game works very similar. I'm going to approach my boss about contacting the developer, because this could be a great training tool. The first time I figured out the programming and didn't need to utilize a guide was a real light bulb on moment. Very enjoyable, and if you work with I/O devices of any kind you'll likely enjoy it and maybe write off your game time as work.

procrastinated reading the manual and won 100 games of solitaire 10/10 game

I don't know why I'm getting this game while I barely passed my assembly class. Game manual is fun to read, it even got an application for Chinese visa. XDDD

as someone who used to work as a product manager, i now understand what it's like to get feature requests without any relevant context. i'm sorry. 10/10 game