We’re excited to share a big ChipWits feature drop including ultra-wide monitor support, more keyboard shortcuts, top-10 scores, and the ability to drag the camera with the middle mouse. Come check it out! Support for ultra-wide monitors, and better handling of non-16:9 aspect ratios While some game scenes are still letterboxed, the main game scene […]
Congratulations to MasterDion, our December 2024 challenge winner, who scored a median of 730 points in 2,500 cycles in Snowflake! Here is a video of his solution, both without and (spoiler alert) with IBOL code: Here is the full Top 10 chart for Snowflake (using Steam usernames): The Snowflake puzzle is still available in our
We’re excited to announce this month’s challenge: Snowflake! But first, a recap video of last month’s challenge… November Recap Our 40th Anniversary Challenge, “Happy 40th” was to eat 40 birthday candles in as few cycles as possible. We introduced a 1-bit tileset reminiscent of the original Mac version of the game. Rumoi had the winning
Richard Moss, author of the book The Secret History of Mac Gaming, has agreed to give ChipWits fans an additional £5 off for those who use the code CHIPWITS when ordering his book. That’s on top of the existing £5 discount, bringing the price down to £19.99 (approximately $24.99 USD), just in time for the
This past week has been a real roller coaster for the ChipWits team. And the ride continues! We started out with some Reddit posts covering our open source of the original FORTH source code for ChipWits for the 40th Anniversary of the original game. Our Reddit posts were very popular, and eventually we were picked
Please Wishlist Our ChipWits Reboot! We’re so thrilled that our open source announcement is getting so much attention! If you’re interested purely in the open source release and how we recovered the original FORTH source code, please read on. If you’re curious to try out our reboot of this programming logic / puzzle game as
Celebratory Puzzle November 2024 marks the 40th Anniversary of ChipWits, and to celebrate we have lots of surprises lined up for this month! One of them is a new puzzle challenge called “Happy 40th!” In November of 1984, ChipWits captivated players with its innovative challenge of programming an adorable robot to navigate puzzles, gather Goodies,
Our New Site We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new website, a milestone that coincides with our 40th anniversary this November! As we reflect on four decades of puzzle-solving fun, we’re excited to unveil this fresh digital space that captures the spirit of ChipWits. A Fresh Coat of Paint For the past
Join our first monthly challenge: Trick or Treat! In this challenge, you need to pick up 4 treats and zap 4 tricks in as few cycles as possible. To play: We’ve also released a new version ChipWits Demo 0.62.1 which shows the challenge leaderboard right on the puzzle selection screen: Hurry, because the challenge ends
In our ChipWits Demo v0.61.1 release, we’ve added a cinematic opening cutscene, to introduce the story line and motivate the player to want to save Droog Station. Check out our cutscene, and while you’re there, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel to get more ChipWits videos in the future!
