ProxOS

Pretty fun zachlike!

It's a rather open ended puzzle game that is fun to optimize in. There's the possibility to create custom puzzles once you run out and share on discord. I had one of my puzzles part of the game, so if you want to make puzzles for others to solve, there might be some space for you to do so. You get quite a lot of coding space to solve puzzles which without spoiling the reason why might be a bad thing. Programs don't live in memory in the sort of sense that you can write self modifying code. There is a stack, but it's also not part of the RAM but treated as a separate structure and storage by itself. Overall, the puzzles are decent, though I'd loved to see some more data-packed puzzles. A lot of the data to be read is in integer format which is the largest width to be read in one instruction meaning there is little room for arithmetic parallelism. Puzzles range from dead easy (tutorial level?) to quite tricky. At current writing, there is a puzzle that only 2 people have solved. I don't know if it's because of difficulty, interest or lack of players. I've enjoyed my stay here and I hope to make (and play) more puzzles in the future. The discord isn't very active, but the developer is still there and responds if someone writes a message. But there hasn't been any game updates since July 2024. It feels like the core of ProxOS mechanics is there, but it could do with more puzzles to solve! I'd pay for a supporter pack if there was one available.