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. At that time, our fan asked Doug if he could have a copy of the
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 or a mission pack. Sequences are displayed in order while mission packs have the notion
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 people who will help us reach the people who want to play our game. We
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 enthusiasm. Thank you so much for joining us on this journey and for sharing your
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, I’ll discuss a few things I tried and why we arrived at this choice. Warning:
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 development build: The leaderboard is enabled on some missions, and lets you compare your solution
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 fan letter. Brainworks is the publisher of the Apple II and Mac versions of ChipWits.
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 station. Your ChipWit needs to clear away parts of a nebula that have been blocking
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 saved me a few hours in total. Not a big deal. But the bigger deal
In Surprising Diagonal Movement Challenges, I mentioned that 9 slicing walls (a.k.a. wall slicing) is our solution to prevent the ChipWit from appearing to be stuck inside a square when it is actually allowed to move diagonally. The ChipWit wants to get that pie, but can it escape? With wall slicing, it’s obvious to the
