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Sometime between the release of TIS-100 and, Barth had come into contact with Alliance Media Holdings who offered to buy the studio and to manage the publishing of the games, while allowing Barth retain his creative lead and control.Since the studio's acquisition, it has published Shenzhen I/O, and, which is the spiritual successor to The Codex. Near the time he started to work at Valve, Barth had been considering shutting down Zachtronics due to stress of running the business alongside the new responsibilities at Valve. He worked there for 10 months before departing.

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Initially he looked to take The Codex of Alchemical Engineering to make it a full commercial release, but instead ended up producing and later.In 2015, Barth joined to work on. Ironclad Tactics did not do as well as SpaceChem, and Barth realized there was more a market for the puzzle games that he had previously developed, and turned back to his Flash-based games. A few ideas failed to come to light, and with expectations for the studio to make another game, he opted to make, which was more a real-time based card game rather than a puzzle game. SpaceChem was critically praised, which led Barth to continue to develop more games under the Zachtronics label. It was also the first game where he took in a number of collaborators to help. The first of these was, which he developed the Zachtronics label for.

For marketing reasons, Barth decided against with its capability to cross-publish to, and switched to, which allowed him to target the three operating systems required for inclusion in the.After completing The Codex of Alchemical Engineering and getting positive feedback from it, Barth came up with the idea of making commercial games. SpaceChem also used.NET, as Barth considers to be 'the best language ever invented'. If youre a fan of SpaceChem - like games or any of the Zachtronics games then you will most likely love this game.