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Enigmash Game

by ash on 12/22/23, 10:17 AM with 6 comments

• by cableshaft on 12/23/23, 4:20 AM

  Very clever game. I still haven't gotten too far in it yet.

  I heard about this game from Jonathan Blow. This game helped convince him to hire Jack for their current game, and Jack ended up doing a lot of level design on the game.

  And then Jack passed away a few months ago, at the young age of 25. Jonathan Blow talks about it in this clip[1].

  [1]: https://youtu.be/v_xdEIPZ2Po

• by dash2 on 12/23/23, 8:53 AM

  This was extremely cute! I like the fact that each small puzzle had its own reset point, so you were never overstressed and could just keep retrying.

• by tontonius on 12/23/23, 12:56 PM

  Love it! Reminds me about Chip’s Challenge! I used to play it on my old man’s 486 at the ripe age of 6 or 7. Found it last year on an online DOS emulator and was stunned to know that I knew the entire sequence of one of the earliest ice puzzles through pure muscle memory (some 25 years later)

• by rozab on 12/23/23, 11:16 AM

  Jack Lance was a genius game designer, I'm going to miss his yearly pi day puzzles so much

• by someplaceguy on 12/23/23, 12:30 PM

  This strongly reminds me of the game Supaplex.