If you’ve been waiting for a Steam sale, now’s the perfect time to buy ChipWits! The new release of ChipWits 1.1 (with our new 🔥Hot Keys🔥 feature) is 15% off and one of 15 Featured Games in Steam’s Back To School Games Celebration, thanks to our new school-themed “Pencil Shards” mission! Let’s break this down…
Back to School Games Celebration
Every year, Mooncube Games hosts a Back to School Games Celebration on Steam, and this year (like last year) we’re part of it! You can find lots of discounted educational games, including ChipWits. The sale is live now through September 1, so be sure to check it out!
ChipWits 1.1: Now With Hot Keys!
One of the most frequent requests we’ve received is for a faster way to program ChipWits IBOL code if you’re using a keyboard. This update is all about improving your experience, and the star of the show is the new Hot Keys feature.
Hot Keys in Action!
You can now assign your favorite chips to keyboard keys 1 through 8. This lets you instantly place a fully-specified chip with a single keystroke, speeding up your IBOL editing like never before. The cursor will even automatically advance to the next empty slot, helping you stay in the flow.
To get you started, we’ve pre-assigned some hot keys for you in the first few tutorial missions. Once you’re ready, you can customize them however you’d like, and your settings will be saved for all future missions.
Input & Accessibility Improvements
We’ve also been hard at work on other improvements and bug fixes. We’ve added better support for gamepads and some initial support for touchscreens, so you should notice a smoother experience across all devices. We’ve also addressed several community-reported issues, including localization gaps, audio levels for Professor Chip, and a bug with our radial menu.
Full Release Notes
New Features
- 963: Alt + Click to prevent radial menu from popping up on blank slot
- #1018: Set initial volume to 50%
- #1024: Gamepad: Enable dpad for selecting chips in the workshop
- #1025: Gamepad: Left controller to select chip from radial menu
- #1027: Customizable Hot Keys 1-8
- Introduce hot keys in tutorial
- Auto advance cursor when using hot key
Bug Fixes
- #897: [RADIAL MENU]: Selecting ‘Skate’ you cannot highlight a direction unless you move the mouse first
- #1012: [AUDIO]: Volume: Professor Chip’s beeps do not adhere to audio level set by user
- #1013: [AUDIO]: Cut scene audio is incredibly loud when user has audio settings set to low
- #1014: Repeat mission says palindrome but it’s not
- #1026: Localize “FIRST CHIP HERE” text
- #1028: Bug: Mission localizations for validation error toasts
We hope you enjoy these updates! This post is getting long, so we’ll share more details about the “Pencil Shards” mission in a separate update later this week.
As always, please let us know what you think and report any new bugs you find. Happy coding!