Get ready to dive into a unique puzzle experience that exercises your logic and creativity circuits!

Forty years after the original and after six years in development, we're proud to announce that the new ChipWits is officially RELEASED and available NOW on Steam!

What awaits you in ChipWits?

• A Legacy Reboot: Bringing the original 1984 game to a new generation of gamers, an accessible introduction to programming.

• Easy to Learn: No prior experience required. Learn how to control your ChipWit in the step-by-step tutorial that will have you programming in no time.

• Hard to Master: Missions build upon themselves with new challenges, chips, and mechanics. Later levels can have players using over a hundred chips across multiple chip boards.

• Efficiency is Key: Optimize your solutions to maximize your score, minimize the number of chips used, and minimize the number of steps in your program to secure a top spot on the global leaderboards!

• ChipWit Challenges: An expanding collection of standalone puzzles that challenge the ChipWit community to compete for the highest score or most efficient solution. Complete past challenges and check back regularly for new ones!

• Old and New: 8 original classic missions from the first ChipWits, and over 55 new puzzles and missions with revamped chips and mechanics will be in the full release.

We've poured our passion into making ChipWits an engaging and rewarding experience for both newcomers and veteran puzzle solvers. We can't wait for you to explore the world of ChipWits and discover the joy of programming!

We are excited to announce ChipWits version 0.73! This release adds localization to English, Brazilian Portuguese, French and Simplified Chinese! Let us know if there are other languages you want to see ChipWits translated to. The release also fixes several known issues:

New Features and Improvements

* Localization for English, Brazilian Portuguese, French and Simplified Chinese

* New Cutscene 5 audio

* New, cleaner font throughout game

Bug Fixes

* #978: User is locked into answer for Professor Chip

* #984: Blue star on Final Exam level is white

* #994: Hint lightbulb clips into environment

* #1010: Hint counter resets if Reset is pressed

* Fix premature reveal of Chapter 5 cutscene

* Fix "Retry or Continue" Z order

* Move green arrow out of the way in Tutor Dialog

Solve your way through 11 different puzzles and see if you have what it takes to work in Professor Chip's factory! When you're done, take on a bonus mission, two ChipWit Challenges, and two classic missions from the original 1984 ChipWits! The main story missions are set in Professor Chips Factory, where you will automate your ChipWit across the factory floor, maneuvering around obstacles to complete tasks. ChipWit Challenges are an expanding catalog of standalone puzzles that will be updated regularly. Demo players can always come back and access the two most recent challenges for free as they are published. Don't forget to Wishlist ChipWits to be notified of our upcoming release in July!

Solve your way through 11 different puzzles and see if you have what it takes to work in Professor Chip's factory! When you're done, take on a bonus mission, two ChipWit Challenges, and two classic missions from the original 1984 ChipWits! The main story missions are set in Professor Chips Factory, where you will automate your ChipWit across the factory floor, maneuvering around obstacles to complete tasks. ChipWit Challenges are an expanding catalog of standalone puzzles that will be updated regularly. Demo players can always come back and access the two most recent challenges for free as they are published.

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Welcome to the last challenge of 2024: Snowflake! How many randomly-scattered presents can you pick up with 2,500 cycles?
To play: [olist]

This release includes a couple of small bug fixes and some assets for the December Challenge

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In celebration of ChipWits' 40th Anniversary, we're excited to launch the November challenge: Happy 40th!
Believe it or not, this month is ChipWits' 40th Anniversary! In celebration, we've baked it a pie with 40 candles. Your mission is to eat all 40 candles with as few cycles as possible. But don't run out of fuel... Oh, and also, you start facing a random direction, so your solution will have to work for all 8 directions. We've added a Mac-inspired 1-bit color scheme for this month's challenge, too. To play: [olist]

Happy 40th Anniversary to ChipWits! This release includes a new mission to celebrate this milestone and a new 1-bit ChipWit model and tileset. It also improves the handling of random behavior.

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This release brings an exciting new leaderboard system to the game! You can now compete against other players in special announced challenges. Stay tuned to announcements for new challenges every month!

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We're excited to kick off our first monthly challenge: Trick or Treat!
In this challenge, you need to pick up 4 treats and zap 4 tricks in as few cycles as possible. To play: [olist]

Post a screenshot of your score to our Discord Server if you believe you have the highest! [/olist] You can find the mission in the Puzzles section:
Happy Halloween!

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During Steam Next Fest, ChipWits will be livestreaming a gameplay preview! This is a ~15 minute loop of a ChipWit robot exploring a new version of ChipWit Caves, one of the original missions in the 1984 version of the game (which was published on Mac, C64, Apple II). We'd love to hear your feedback on our game so far! Please head over to our community Discord to tell us what you think and give us suggestions to help shape the game! ChipWits Discord Please WishList our game if you like open sandbox puzzle games about coding robots!

Witness a catastrophic event unfold at Droog Station in our new cinematic opening cutscene. A lone ChipWit stands amidst the chaos, its fate uncertain. Wishlist and download our Free Demo now and unravel the mystery! [previewyoutube=RIJ2TL-VjdA;full][/previewyoutube]

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Get ready to guide your ChipWit robot through a series of challenging and fun puzzles! Were thrilled to announce that ChipWits Free Demo is officially out on Steam! ChipWits is a programming-themed simulation puzzle game with no prior coding experience required. You use an icon-based language to guide your little robot to solve open-ended puzzles and rescue the crew of a space station taken over by a rogue AI, Dr. Droog. The original game was released in 1984 on the Mac, Commodore 64 and Apple II. This reboot maintains the spirit of the original game and is refreshed for modern audiences. It is available on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux. The demo includes:

• 6 Missions from the Dr. Droog Campaign (the main storyline and tutorial)
• 5 Challenging Puzzles (3 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard)
• 2 Classic Missions from the 1984 version of ChipWits (Greedville and ChipWit Caves)

Get ready to guide your ChipWit robot through a series of challenging and fun puzzles! Were excited to announce that Thursday, September 26, 2024 will be our official release date for our ChipWits Free Demo on Steam! ChipWits is a programming-themed simulation puzzle game with no prior coding experience required. You use an icon-based language to guide your little robot to solve open-ended puzzles and rescue the crew of a space station taken over by a rogue AI, Dr. Droog. The original game was released in 1984 on the Mac, Commodore 64 and Apple II. This reboot maintains the spirit of the original game and is refreshed for modern audiences. It is available on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux. The demo includes:

• 6 Missions from the Dr. Droog Campaign (the main storyline and tutorial)
• 5 Challenging Puzzles (3 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard)
• 2 Classic Missions from the 1984 version of ChipWits (Greedville and ChipWit Caves)

During Dinos vs. Robots Fest, ChipWits will be livestreaming our first gameplay preview. This is a ~15 minute loop of a robot exploring a new version of ChipWit Caves, one of the original missions in the 1984 version of the game (which was published on Mac, C64, Apple II). We'd love to hear your feedback on our game so far! Please head over to our community Discord to tell us what you think and give us suggestions to help shape the game! ChipWits Discord Please wishlist our game if you like open sandbox puzzle games about coding robots!