Zachtronics made singular games for engineers and people who make games. They made the game that inspired Minecraft. Imagine the breadth of their influence and it’s clear what their open-ended puzzle games have truly inspired in modern game design. We chat with the studio’s founder Zach Barth about the legendary history of these programming-forward computer games, the weight of outsized influence, working for Valve, and what he’s up to today. This is Zach Barth’s Game Dev Story.

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