We’re excited to announce that, after 6 years in the works, ChipWits will be released in one week from today, on July 11, 2025! As we approach our release, we’ve seen a significant increase in interest in the game. So far, we count 27 creators who have reviewed our game, organically, on Twitch, YouTube, and […]
We’re so excited to announce that our new demo, ChipWits: Professor Chip’s Factory, is out now on Steam! In this new automation-themed mission pack, you play a ChipWit robot that is applying for a job at a factory. As you wind your way through 11 missions, Professor Chip is evaluating you. Will you land the
February 2025, after resurrecting the Commodore 64 version of ChipWits, I turned my attention to the game’s original platform: the 1984 Macintosh 128K. ChipWits debuted on the Mac in 1984, sporting a black-and-white GUI and 400 KB disks, and was later ported to colorful 8-bit systems in 1985. Rebuilding the Mac version presented a whole new set of challenges – from resource forks and archaic disk formats to
In September 2023, the ChipWits team discovered a stack of Commodore 64 disks containing the original FORTH source code for ChipWits, a game first released on the C64 in 1985. In their ChipWits Blog Post, you can read more about this discovery. About a year later, I came across a discussion on Slashdot, which inspired
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
