Well, why not.
This, my friends, is very good news.
“It’s not a Zachtronics game,” Barth told PC Gamer inan interviewfollowing the game’s announcment.
“This is a Coincidence game, which is a totally legally distinct game studio.”
Coincidence have already released one game - Add Astra, an educational puzzler about math and racing.
But this looks like a more intentional successor to the automation crown.
All the hallmarks of the designers' previous programmy puzzlers seem to be intact.
It has solitaire, but the solitaire is also pachinko.
It’s called “Pachi-Sol”.
It does have one new interesting feature, though.
Which sounds like it’ll be handy on bigger projects.
Many writers at RPS have been fans of these games over the years.
Iswoonedover Shenzhen I/O, which saw you emigrating to China to make circuit boards.
Sinlost sleep(in a good way) while playing thoughtful visual novel Eliza.
Games thatdon’t matter?Excuse me, Opus Magnum remains one of ourbest puzzle gamesto this day.
A few years later Zachtronics would close, but not beforereleasing its final game,Last Call BBS.
“I hate saying Zach-like,” he told PC Gamer.
“If anybody has any suggestions for a different thing we can call them?”
I don’t know.
Then again, it’s true we often caution against auteurism in the RPS treehouse.
What to do, what to do.
Let’s put these thoughts off until Kaizen: A Factory Story comes out.
A release date hasn’t been announced yet.
I’ll set up some elaborate electrical alarms to go off when we know more.
