The Robot Coding Game — Bring Your Brain!
The last two weeks have been a flurry of archaeology! First, a fan found a Mac Diskette With the 1984 ChipWits Source Code. While we were researching and discussing how to read old Mac-formatted disks, Doug Sharp, the original creator … Continued
On August 20th, we received an email from a fan of the original game. He saw our video Interview by @TeaLeavesProgramming about our reboot of the game, and he recalled that he had contacted Doug about ChipWits in the 80s. … Continued
We’ve been doing some work on our mission selection scene, to support the concept of “mission packs.” Whereas before we had a single linear sequence of missions, we’ve now broken them into categories, each of which can be a sequence … Continued
One of the most challenging aspects of developing ChipWits has been finding our game audience. As we’re nearing a trailer and playable demo, we’d like to take some time to start building our list of journalists, streamers, influencers and other … Continued
Hello, fellow gamers! We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a milestone of 100 mailing list subscribers interested in our game! This is a huge achievement for us and we couldn’t have done it without your support and … Continued
In the past two weeks I’ve been experimenting with different ways to talk to the ChipWits game server from our game, and found that using protocol buffers with UnityWebRequest is the best way forward for us. In this devlog post, … Continued
Will you be able to beat the world’s top ChipWit programmers? One of the features we’re most excited about in the new reboot of ChipWits is making it a leaderboard game. Here’s a preview of the leaderboard in our latest … Continued
Back in olden times when programmers had to finger-paint our 1s and 0s on cave walls, players actually wrote snail mail letters to publishers. I’m glad I kept this one. It’s a combination of a letter of complaint and a … Continued
We’ve been hard at work on the main storyline of the ChipWits reboot and want to give you a sneak peek at one of our missions under development this week. The mission takes place on the exterior of a space … Continued
This past weekend I used Google Bard to save me a little time updating some game assets (I wanted to try out Bard’s new PaLM 2 model first, but I tried Bing AI and ChatGPT as well). I’d estimate it … Continued