This looks pretty neat. I assume you only beat the game when you use the computer you create to create a game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits?
Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits
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#12Phew, still early access. I thought I was going lose my week there :p. Not really a criticism of the developers choice but personally I find the prevalence of early access infuriating. I often play games for awhile and then move on. I also love that initial discovery side of a game. But of these facts are not overly compatible with early access.
Wishlist it and click in "follow", if you use Steam you will be reminded of it when it releases
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#13Is this a simulation ??? Can i use the knowledge from game to build a real life CPU.
Yes, AFAICT you could build a (very basic) CPU that works with the skills you'll learn. Don't expect to challenge Intel and AMD anytime soon though.
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#14That kind of game is too much like work.
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#15I really like this idea. I remember working through the Nand2Tetris course [0] which essentially has the same idea of letting you build a computer from scratch. The course's chip fabrication sections had a limited number of simple solutions, so designing chips really did feel more akin to solving puzzles than writing code.
One thing I'm curious about is how level progression works. Do I get standard implementations for the circuits I've previously made? Or do I have to carry my implementations with me for the rest of the game, bugs included?
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#16Really neat idea. It hurts readability to distinguish logic gates with text instead of their traditional symbols. And it's not clear to me if the trace animations add information, the way that they do in the Falstad simulator, or if they're just aesthetic.
But for an early access game, I think it looks great and the idea is solid. I don't know of another game based on the computer hardware-software interface, so it seems to be filling a gap too.
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#17/off topic I am learning to design PCBs, and while I have a basic understanding of the components (viz. resistors, diodes, transistors, etc) as the board gets populated with more components, (consider, for instance, an arduino dev board), it is just very challenging to build a model of how the entire board works - the logic etc. Further, a good part of modern microcontroller boards is dedicated to (I think), power de…
You should think in subsystems. Design a module, and then think of it as a basic component (like a resistor or a microcontroller is a component). Do not keep thinking about all the parts it is composed of. Use the power of abstraction.
Thats one of the really nice parts of shields. They make it very easy to think about the high level modules.
The hard part of designing PCB's was finding components. I tried to build one, but by the time I finally had a design one of the IC's would be out of stock, and I'd have to find a replacement. The downstream effects of that change would take time to deal with, and when I finally finished I'd run into the same issue again. I ended up just giving up.
I wish the PCB design software let me stay on this module level.
Re: Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits
#18Looks like MHRD[0] with a GUI.
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#19Is this a simulation ??? Can i use the knowledge from game to build a real life CPU.
Yes, AFAICT you could build a (very basic) CPU that works with the skills you'll learn. Don't expect to challenge Intel and AMD anytime soon though.
I feel you might be a little bit too optimistic. Did almost much simpler thing when I was at university. It was much more involved than it looked like. There are so many gotchas you would never anticipate until you get started. The most common scenario would be the diagram looks alright, but when you put all part together, it just does not work.
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#20That kind of game is too much like work.
It's why I got into this industry.