Hard Chip Game

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay! #cpudesign #indiedev #indiegame #steam #gamedev #IndieGameDev #videogames Wishlist here! store.steampowered.com/app/2844290/Ha…

OCG1-Week's leaderboard is seeing some reshuffling! AndOrXorNot Multigate gives some trouble! Up for a (bigger) challenge? Rank #1 now before the week ends! As usual, here’s a quick start for week 3 youtube.com/watch?v=UWQPxw… #engineering #puzzle #tournament

Huge congrats to the winners of OCGv1 week 2! 🥇hallojasper - 98.8pts 🥈Gavaldor - 97.9pts 🥉simon1283491 - 97.1pts Special mention to miklesh for the volume record! Rest goes to now-hard-to-beat hallojasper🦾! Thanks to all participants!🙏 #engineering #cpudesign #indiegame

Adding a heatmap to see the render cost of each pixel is cool and very handy! I should get rid of those red-hot spots 🤔. I already have an idea for reducing the ray-travel cost in empty spaces. What optimization trick comes to your mind?#raymarching #indiegame #indie #render

Week 2 of OCG1, is surprisingly dynamic! Leaderboard is clearly showing some pattern! The top player is a precise one! Up for a (big) challenge? Rank #1 now before the week ends! #engineering #puzzle Want a quick'n'dirty solution? Here’s a quick start youtube.com/watch?v=E7mHKL…

@zzznah Hey thanks for the shoutout!🙏

There are quite a few "build a computer from binary gates" games around, but this one asks to design standard cells by drawing layers first!

Huge congrats to the winners of OCGv1 first week! 🥇hallojasper 94.7pts 🥈simon1283491 92.9pts 🥉Gavaldor 61.9pts Really interesting small stage with lots of solutions for this gauntlet. Thanks to all participants! #engineering #cpudesign #Competition

🕛1h30 left for OCGv1, week1!🕒 Lots of sport and reshuffling in the leaderboard this week already! Will you be the one who storms in a steal the first place at the last second?! Don't wait, everything is in your HC game, then Gauntlet! #competition #engineering #puzzle

Open Community Gauntlet v1, Week 1, is well underway! ⚙️ Players are already optimizing their designs, squeezing every transistor! 11 transistors for the win? Want a quick'n'dirty solution? Here’s a quick start👇 youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6G4H… #GameDev #IndieGame #Engineering

🏆Open Community Gauntlet v1 is about to go live! 🏆 4 weeks of logic-focused design challenges! Four challenges, four weeks, endless silicon. Let's go!⚡🔬 See you on the leaderboard! #engineering #cpu #competition #gauntlet #tournament

🗣️ Hard Chip is participating in the one-week Quebec Game Sale! From now until Feb 23rd! #indiegame #Steam #puzzle #semiconductor @IndieAsylumMTL

Chip of the week: The tight package 8Bit Adder Subtractor! #cpudesign #gamedev #Engineering #logic #puzzle

ℹ️ Update 64 Faster Simulation, Cleaner Workflow, Tougher (Fairer) Challenges! store.steampowered.com/news/app/28442…

🏁Open Community Gauntlet v0, last week done! Final results are in: 🥇Gavaldor 288pts 🥈HeilTec 277.3pts 🥉simon1283491 257.9pts An incredible finish for the first community-driven gauntlet in HC. Huge congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated!#engineering

Last 2 hours to submit Week 3 for OCG v0! Here's a quick start to the 2bit Unsigned Full Divide to help you get started! youtube.com/watch?v=W_wCds…

Week2 of OCG v0 just concluded! Now to Week3! Congrats to: 🥇Heiltec - 98.7pts 🥈Simon1283491 - 98.2pts 🥉Gavaldor - 96.3pts 4️⃣Iamthekittykat - 89.9pts 5️⃣falken - 83.2pts Metric leaders: ⏱️1300Tick simon1283491 🧊870Blocks Heiltec 📏3564Vol🟥34MOS Gavaldor #engineering #cpu

Week1 of Open Community Gauntlet v0 just concluded! Congrats to the Week 1 Winners: 🥇 Gavaldor - 100pts 🥈 HeilTec - 85.9pts 🥉 simon1283491 - 61.9pts 4️⃣ MiniTardigrade - 58.3pts 5️⃣ Herald Echo - 54.2pts Absolute Metric leader: Gavaldor! #engineering #cpudesign #gamedev

Hard Chip is celebrating the holidays with 20% off 🎄 Design, optimize, and push real logic circuits to their limits. Perfect time to jump in or gift it to a fellow engineer! #cpudesign #wintersale #HappyHolidays

And leaderboard at: hardchip.io/gauntlets/open… !

New Community-made Gauntlet starts Sat Dec 13 · 18:00 UTC! 🧠⚙️ 3 weeks · incremental stages · weekly best revealed Week1: 2-bit subtractor👀 Top3 win the Editor Garnet theme! Speed counts, balance matters. Don’t skip a week.🔥 Details: launch Hard Chip! #Competition

This was demanding: speed, space, timing, routing, and raw CMOS mastery! Transparent latch magic, OE gating, memory addressing, MOS limits, and microscopic tick surgery, and you all delivered!

Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 etched its final layer, and it was something! Event Winners: 🥇 Mysterious Beeskyi-ymZERO Architect - 293.3 pts 🥈 Gavaldor - 264.6 pts 🥉 HeilTec - 257.0 pts 4️⃣ tyrnid - 250.5 pts 5️⃣ sillymel - 234.1 pts #Engineering #cpudesign #gamedev