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 1.1.3!

This week is a smaller update; mostly catching up on bugfixes and smaller tweaks, as promised.

Features

Tweaked a few puzzles’ ideals and tick limits, the latter upward.
Colored disconnected modules red on the minimap, to help finding isolated ones.
Clarified ‘Cows’… so to speak.
OS X uses shift-(cmd-)-z for redo, instead of (cmd-)y.
SFX for opening/hiding the puzzle description & minimap.

Bugfixes

The steam leaderboards’ x-axes should be much clearer.
Non-US keyboards should have working/reasonable hotkeys.
The ‘Faux-Reg’ achievements will now trigger immediately after beating the puzzle, instead of one puzzle later.
‘Maze’ displays its tick limit in the description.
‘Finale’’s ideal is beatable, again.
Secrets no longer missing a perfect sparkle.

It’s coming up on a month since release, and most of the low-hanging fruit for fixes and improvements are cleared up. The remaining projects are larger, so to give myself time and space to work on them, I’m shifting to one release every two weeks. See you on the next one, and have fun!

[ 2017-10-16 19:46:50 CET ] [Original Post]

Silicon Zeroes 1.1.3!

This week is a smaller update; mostly catching up on bugfixes and smaller tweaks, as promised.

Features

Tweaked a few puzzles ideals and tick limits, the latter upward.
Colored disconnected modules red on the minimap, to help finding isolated ones.
Clarified Cows so to speak.
OS X uses shift-(cmd-)-z for redo, instead of (cmd-)y.
SFX for opening/hiding the puzzle description & minimap.

Bugfixes

The steam leaderboards x-axes should be much clearer.
Non-US keyboards should have working/reasonable hotkeys.
The Faux-Reg achievements will now trigger immediately after beating the puzzle, instead of one puzzle later.
Maze displays its tick limit in the description.
Finales ideal is beatable, again.
Secrets no longer missing a perfect sparkle.

Its coming up on a month since release, and most of the low-hanging fruit for fixes and improvements are cleared up. The remaining projects are larger, so to give myself time and space to work on them, Im shifting to one release every two weeks. See you on the next one, and have fun!

[ 2017-10-16 19:46:50 CET ] [Original Post]