Silicon Zeroes (tuxdb.com)

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The makers of Manufactoria return with a new open-ended puzzle game.

Build complex electronics from a variety of simple components, like Adders, Latches and Multiplexers.
Travel back to the 60s to Silicon Valley's very first startup, and do your best to keep the whole thing from imploding.
Solve more than seventy puzzles, from straightforward introductions to building fully functional CPUs.
Original soundtrack by Craig Barnes, composer for Streets of Rogue and Enyo.

"The best game about CPU design that I can imagine" -- Zach Barth (SpaceChem, TIS-100).

Silicon Zeroes 1.1.2 released!

This was supposed to be a small release revising areas where people were getting stuck. Instead, I ended up gutting and reworking most of a board. Oops!

Highlights:

Board 3 (’High Speed’) revised and reworked. Four new puzzles (’Clock’, ’Maze’, ‘Back’, and ‘Splitcount’) added; some uninteresting (’Delay Write’, ‘Stages’) removed; various other fixes and reorderings. If you were stuck here, now’s a good chance to give the board another shot!
New ‘Hard’ puzzle: ‘Cows’, on board 1. Those who want to get going fast can skip the entire rest of the board, just by beating this puzzle. Everyone likes a challenge, right?

Features:

'Ideal’ renamed to ‘Goal’, to reduce confusion when getting better solutions than the ‘ideal’.
Mousing the bottom-left of modules works as soon as Delay is introduced, rather than only being enabled once the auto-clock is unlocked.
Added a guide to resizing the game when windowed, in Options.

Fixes:

Various tests’ time limits changed to be in line with puzzle descriptions.
Equals modules behave consistently when ‘?’ is passed to an input after the first two.
Re-added missing UI to Corrupted Memory display.
Placing a control point under a module no longer causes crashes.
Added a log file: /log.txt on Windows and Linux, ~/Documents/SZ_Log.txt on OSX.

Next update should be focused on bugs and tweaks, since there’s a bit of a backlog on those. If there are any small issues that particularly irk you, I’m listening!

[ 2017-10-09 18:48:41 CET ] [Original Post]

Silicon Zeroes 1.1.2 released!

This was supposed to be a small release revising areas where people were getting stuck. Instead, I ended up gutting and reworking most of a board. Oops!

Highlights:

Board 3 (High Speed) revised and reworked. Four new puzzles (Clock, Maze, Back, and Splitcount) added; some uninteresting (Delay Write, Stages) removed; various other fixes and reorderings. If you were stuck here, nows a good chance to give the board another shot!
New Hard puzzle: Cows, on board 1. Those who want to get going fast can skip the entire rest of the board, just by beating this puzzle. Everyone likes a challenge, right?

Features:

'Ideal renamed to Goal, to reduce confusion when getting better solutions than the ideal.
Mousing the bottom-left of modules works as soon as Delay is introduced, rather than only being enabled once the auto-clock is unlocked.
Added a guide to resizing the game when windowed, in Options.

Fixes:

Various tests time limits changed to be in line with puzzle descriptions.
Equals modules behave consistently when ? is passed to an input after the first two.
Re-added missing UI to Corrupted Memory display.
Placing a control point under a module no longer causes crashes.
Added a log file: /log.txt on Windows and Linux, ~/Documents/SZ_Log.txt on OSX.

Next update should be focused on bugs and tweaks, since theres a bit of a backlog on those. If there are any small issues that particularly irk you, Im listening!

[ 2017-10-09 18:48:41 CET ] [Original Post]