TIS-100

A great game for anyone who enjoys the challenge of coding within confined memory.

I own this game on Steam. I've completed the "any%" category for the game and cleared every challenge achievement, save for two. Those two as you may be able to surmise from the previous sentence, are the 100% achievements, which I am 6 puzzles away from (two in the first half of the game and four in the latter half). While some puzzles still may be giving me a hard time I still love this game. There's nothing more rewarding than solving a puzzle for the first time, especially if you come in with good idea of how to handle it and it pans out. Admittedly sometimes you have to make a few tweaks to your original plan, but that makes the solve all the more rewarding. Heck, even after you solved a puzzle before(and outside of the achievements that place certain restrictions on solving puzzles), there's still a sense of accomplishment from finding a faster solution to your puzzle (and sometimes one that will even cut out unnecessary lines of code with just a bit of reengineering). I absolutely adore this game. I admittedly don't know too many people that know about it or enjoy it, but it's a game I could gush on about for a long time. I mean, what other game has you come up with a solution to multiply, divide, or even expotentiate numbers using commands that can only compare numbers (to zero), pass data around, and add/subtract/negate values? Not too many I can think of (though I am reminded of some other games that require clever solutions to puzzles as I type this, including triangulating a location on a map). Without spoiling how to get to a (I say "a" because I've seen other approaches than the one I took) requires a fundamental understanding of the relationship between the numbers in more basic terms. Also, I don't know if it sounds too cliche, but I think that solving puzzles like the one in the game help your decision making in real life. I guess you could say that about videogames in general but this one in particular may make you think more algorithmically about how to accomplish everyday tasks. Maybe that's just me though. Enough yammering though. tl;dr: I love this game because you have to really understand what you're doing to effectively solve puzzles, and there's a huge sense of achievement in being able to figure that out. The crazier the task, the greater the satisfaction.