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Coincidence is a cooperative game studio created by ex-Zachtronics developers. Zach Barth is no longer teaching high school and is making games again.
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Only TWO WEEKS left in the Kickstarter for the Zach Attack! Scratch 'n Solve Puzzle Pack, the latest physical game from Coincidence. www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac... My goal with this project was to fit as much game design as possible into a scratch-off card. This was a challenge! (1/2)

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The demo for Kaizen: A Factory Story is now live on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2275490 This is the first demo that I have made for one of our games since... 2011? I've been operating under the assumption that Bulletstorm killed the PC game demo, but apparently that's not true anymore.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Did you catch us at the PC Gaming Show? In case you missed it, Kaizen: A Factory Story will be launching on July 14th! We're also releasing a demo, available June 9th (tomorrow!) as part of Steam’s Next Fest. Check it out and let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDuD...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Kaizen: A Factory Story will be part of PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show! Tune in for an exciting announcement! Sunday June 8th 12pm PT / 3pm ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXC7...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We made a new physical game! The Zach Attack! Scratch 'n Solve Puzzle Pack is a collection of six different scratch-off games that combine the deductive thinking of logic puzzles with the risk management of push-your-luck games. Scratch off some serious fun! www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t miss the #PCGamingShow on June 8 when we take a closer peek at open-ended puzzle automation game Kaizen: A Factory Story from the original Zachtronics team!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

With Kaizen: A Factory Story, Coincidence continues its mission to explore the intersection of engineering, history, and interactive design.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Never thought I would read a full-on academic paper about TIS-100, its story (the first I wrote for Zachtronics), and its relationship to the birth of personal computing gamestudies.org/2401/article...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

DEMO DUDES is back with the PC Gamer demo disc from January 1995! In this episode, we hit some things with baseball bats, discover the origins of the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise, and even free up some conventional memory. Literally tens of kilobytes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02W...

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Matthew, who wrote the story for Kaizen and most of the Zachtronics games, has a novel coming out!

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Eliza, the visual novel, is on sale for the lowest price it’s ever been as part of the Steam Visual Novel Fest. Follow Evelyn as she experiences the effects of the AI-powered therapy program she helped create, and navigates her own life in the midst of it. store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I'm happy to announce our first major game, Kaizen: A Factory Story! Design production lines to create the iconic products of 1980s Japan in this open-ended factory puzzle game developed by Coincidence and published by Astra Logical. Wishlist it now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2275490

submitted 105 days ago • 11 comments

Zachtronics (now @coincidence.games) who you may know from their great TIS-100 #assembler #programming game, also ported some of their mini-games to actual retro hardware: (1/2) zachtronics.itch.io/hackmatch-fo..., there is a link to a dev write-up, and #sourcecode is included #nesdev #NES

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

We have a new... podcast? Let's Play? I'm honestly not sure what this is! In this pilot episode of DEMO DUDES, join us as we check out the very first PC Gamer demo disc from December 1994, including hit games like Wing Commander 3, Jazz Jackrabbit, and DreamWeb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_P...

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Our second card game, Chemistry Set, is 33% off right now on the Coincidence store. We also still have copies of the second printing of The Lucky Seven in stock! It's all right here: coincidence.games/store/

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

I've never reviewed a single card... but the depot, the one-card addition to The Lucky Seven, makes the game significantly harder and more interesting. Read about it here: spacebiff.com/2024/09/26/l...

submitted 260 days ago • 0 comments

All pre-orders of Chemistry Set and The Lucky Seven have been shipped! If you somehow missed this, check them out on our store, where we have a bunch of copies left in stock: coincidence.games/store/

submitted 275 days ago • 0 comments

We just got our copies of The Lucky Seven and Chemistry Set and are going to start shipping these out right away! If you still need to purchase, check out our store: coincidence.games/store/

submitted 282 days ago • 0 comments

If you want a copy of Chemistry Set and The Depot but don't want to purchase another copy of The Lucky Seven, I've added a combo package for exactly this on the Coincidence store: coincidence.games/store/

submitted 294 days ago • 0 comments

We have a new card game coming out soon called Chemistry Set! It's a quick two-player game about building molecules. You can also play it as a solitaire game. Info and rules here: coincidence.games/chemistry-set/ Pre-order here: coincidence.games/store/ Shipping in early October 2024.

submitted 295 days ago • 1 comment