Gnomes & Co: The Art of the Build

ノームをうまく操作してブロックを組み合わせ、目的の場所に目的の形のブロックを納品するゲーム。ノームは移動したりブロックを持ち上げる以外に、ブロックの切断や溶接ができる。このノームの行動を記録して、納品までの1ループあたりの行動数を最適化する最適化パズルとなる。 トレイラーだけでは内容が掴みにくいが、変則型の[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601860/Warp_Factory/]Warp Factory[/url]と説明するのが一番わかりやすいと思う(正確にはこちらのほうが先行作品)。Warp Factoryがデバイスを並べてラインを作るのに対し、こちらはいろんな操作をするノームを移動させるという違いがある。 目的の形に仕上げて納品するだけでも頭を使うが、さらに最適化のチャレンジ目標はなかなか高く、かなり歯ごたえがある作品と言えそうだ。 DEMO版が公開されているので、まずはそちらを触ってみるのがよいだろう。

In this game you "program" gnomes to slice make products in the given form. You'll have different chapters with a handful of levels with an increasing difficulty. I have mixed feeling about this game. Zachlike puzzle is a bit irritating, because the star rating shows you that there is one optimal solution. Solve it under par and you'll get a checkmark. The devs must be genius or they just know their game, because I seldom know what the trick is to get this low move count. To the programming part: You control the gnomes to do their work and each step is recorded, so that they can do it in a loop at the end. You can be very smart and let your gnomes end at the same point where they're starting, so you don't have to "reset" the level which gives you a penalty in your scoring. The controls are a little bit annoying for me, because you control them with your mouse, but it's not unfair, because you can rewind a step. If you have a quiet promising solution you don't have the opportunity to "debug" the steps. Worst case scenario: in the beginning you misstep twice but the rest works just fine, you have to do every step again. So there is nothing like a program you can interact with, it's just sokoban with a loop at the end. It's a very solid EA title, the idea is nice and the devs are very active in the discussions. It's a little bit pricey, so I would recommend it for now, but only if you really loved Infinifactory so that you can plan ahead dozens of steps and because they deserve their first review (and visibility) :) (May be updated)

Abandoned game, broken puzzles, broken achievements and that is really all you want to know about this game. If developer comes back and fixes this game I would be more than happy to change my review.