Every Monday we send Brendan to the special economic zone of early access and task him with increasing the productivity of the people s republic of videogames. This week, the brain-breaking electronics of SHENZHEN I/O [official site]. Some spoilers included.
Zach Barth of Zachtronics, who is previously responsible for games like SpaceChem and Infinifactory and who is also definitely a robot, unfurled his new electronics-em-ep this month. In SHENZHEN I/O you play an expert who emigrates to China to work for Longteng Electronics Co. Ltd. That means you ll be building circuits, wiring microprocessors and writing bits of code for a range of increasingly unusual and complicated devices. But you ll also be learning about your co-workers and delving into an unnerving industrial future that probably already exists.