TheRetroArcade
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Piston/pistoff
If you're 1) in the mood for a soothing and affordable 2D block-shoving puzzler, and 2) have many memories of building frightful hydraulic slaughterhouses in Minecraft, then perhaps Pight is for you. Created by Turkish devs Mindlabor, it's about using pistons, dynamite, mystic portals, electricity blocks, and other cuboid fauna to move a lightbulb block onto a power source.
It takes open inspiration from Minecraft's redstone - an in-game substance that conducts power and thus, allows for the creation of preposterous industrial machines and even functional computers. The addition of redstone to Minecraft back in 2010 contributed to the rise of a whole genre of PC automation games. Playing Pight gives me a corresponding feeling of vertigo, though it's soon evaporated by the balmy straightforwardness of the puzzling – no need to worry about Endermen saboteurs in this one. Here's a trailer.
From the little I've played, Pight is very gentle. You click pistons to operate them, trying to find the correct order. There are 90 levels, with a new mechanic introduced every 10 levels or so. Later puzzles threaten to be "insufferably difficult", but there's unlimited Undo functionality if you snooker yourself. You can also build your own conundrums in an editor.
I don't write about Minecraft as a game, currently, because I'm participating in the BDS boycott, so it's nice to have a chance to apply my knowledge of Mojang's creation elsewhere. I have to say, this feels more like a love letter to Minecraft's pistons than redstone, though it could be that I just need to play on and unlock those electricity blocks. If you're interested, find it on Steam for the price of whatever £2.87/$3.19/€3.32 gets you in the Real World these days. A paperclip? Two acorns and a piece of string?
Pight
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If you're 1) in the mood for a soothing and affordable 2D block-shoving puzzler, and 2) have many memories of building frightful hydraulic slaughterhouses in Minecraft, then perhaps Pight is for you. Created by Turkish devs Mindlabor, it's about using pistons, dynamite, mystic portals, electricity blocks, and other cuboid fauna to move a lightbulb block onto a power source.
It takes open inspiration from Minecraft's redstone - an in-game substance that conducts power and thus, allows for the creation of preposterous industrial machines and even functional computers. The addition of redstone to Minecraft back in 2010 contributed to the rise of a whole genre of PC automation games. Playing Pight gives me a corresponding feeling of vertigo, though it's soon evaporated by the balmy straightforwardness of the puzzling – no need to worry about Endermen saboteurs in this one. Here's a trailer.
From the little I've played, Pight is very gentle. You click pistons to operate them, trying to find the correct order. There are 90 levels, with a new mechanic introduced every 10 levels or so. Later puzzles threaten to be "insufferably difficult", but there's unlimited Undo functionality if you snooker yourself. You can also build your own conundrums in an editor.
I don't write about Minecraft as a game, currently, because I'm participating in the BDS boycott, so it's nice to have a chance to apply my knowledge of Mojang's creation elsewhere. I have to say, this feels more like a love letter to Minecraft's pistons than redstone, though it could be that I just need to play on and unlock those electricity blocks. If you're interested, find it on Steam for the price of whatever £2.87/$3.19/€3.32 gets you in the Real World these days. A paperclip? Two acorns and a piece of string?
Pight
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