Quoting: tuubiSorry @ivant, can't watch your video. Couldn't even read the title past the words "Epic Rap ...". :dizzy:

I bit prejudiced, eh? But it's fine :)

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I bought the game. Here are my first impressions.

You start working for Microhard, an obvious pun on Apple Microsoft, a company which tries to disrupt the CPU business in the 1980s. You start with a NAND (and later on DFF) and have to design increasingly more complex circuits, using the ones you've already developed.

The UI of the game is what you see in the video clip. It took me a couple of minutes to get used to it, so I give it an A. The manual is in the game, which is also a plus. It's also very short and to the point, so you won't spend too much time reading it.

You also get assigned an intern to help you with the more tedious tasks. What it really means is, that when you start developing the so-called bus versions of some of the chips, you need to develop just one, and the "intern" does the rest of them. This is good, because you can move on to the other fun tasks without the need to do a lot of repetition.

The only downside for some might be that, so far there isn't much more than that. The reward you get is the feeling of accomplishment when you've completed the task. It doesn't matter how well you do it. There's no comparison who can do it with fewer chips, or to make it work faster or anything like that. But I think learning these things can be rewarding by itself.

So far it's very similar to the NAND 2 Tetris [External Link] course, that was mentioned before.

I'll write some more when I get further in the game.

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Quoting: wvstolzingThis reminds me of the exercises in this book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems [External Link]

It's an amazing book; in the first half you get to construct a 16 bit computer, starting from individual logic gates. Then you write a pretty basic Assembly language for the processor, and write some simple programs in it. Eventually a complete operating system, and an object-oriented higher level language are designed; but I haven't studied through those parts. The book comes with several emulators / simulators to test the resulting hardware; and eventually the software written to run on that hardware.

This is an excellent book! I highly recommend it to anybody interested in how computers work. There's no better way to understand it, than to play a game of tetris. That you developed in a language, for which you wrote the compiler. And the standard library/OS. On a hardware you designed.

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Quoting: tuubiPeople used to call them geeks. I guess nerd is an improvement now that it isn't a dirty word anymore.

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Quoting: Sn3ipenYou forgot to mention mod support. There is currently 91 mods in the workshop as we speak. I am curious to see what the modders will be able to do with this game.

Got it from GOG. Do I miss out the mods?

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The biggest inspiration for this game seems to be Monty Python. Here is just one such scene:
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Watch the shows and the movies if you haven't already! High recommended!

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Any chance to try Chivalry: Medieval Warfare with it?

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Typo. Should be "World of Goo".

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