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In this interview with Gamasutra you mention how the later puzzles in spacechem would take hours or even days to solve, (for the last boss maybe weeks): https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/172250/postmortem_zachtronics_.php?page=3 You also have a survival chart which shows each level kills off about 10 to 20% of players. Did you view having such a difficult game as a negative?

I'm asking because I would estimate the survival rate of Opus Magnum, past the first non-tutorial would be flat, maybe 95% across the board. When designing Opus Magnum did you intentionally make a game where it is almost impossible to get stuck on a level?

Hi Zach! Do you follow the yearly Spacechem tournaments? Are there any plans to revist the Spacechem universe?

We wanted to avoid what we call "octopus arm solutions" where you painstakingly but inelegantly program a single arm to do everything.

That's how it is with low area solutions right now! Also since it's a single arm which has to do all the work with no fast forward or rewind to help debug low area solutions for difficult puzzles are a nightmare.