Developer posts and news about this game.
NEW Pasted parts can be raise/lower with G/B (rebindable, not for MOS parts); UX Place io/probes past existing ones; UX Exit to main menu in pause menu; UX Remove all probe shortcut; UX Pause menu now from the editor when opened from the Library; UX Action tips for GB shortcut; U
NEW GI render method (DDGI and Radiance Cascades tests); SIM wrong ticks score with boot clear used (false reset); UX Photo mode high quality preset uses GI; UI Touch ups block renderer; UI Remove obsolete fast raymarching renderer; MI Benchmark report shows the render method lab
NEW Photo mode UI rework, auto framing and others nice controls; NEW Photo mode simple mode (Angles, Distance, Take Photo, Colored segments, Advanced) with C/N/F/G/V; NEW Photo mode frames the die on entry, cinematic angle presets and close-up/fit/away distance cycling; PERF Fast
Greetings, Hard Chip players! Chapter 2 is out! 🎉 After a week on the experimental branch, it moves to early access (EA) for everyone, starting with v0.2.7.188. You’ll find a new overworld section, new terminal scripts, a new soundtrack, and a whole set of register chips to desi
PERF Raymarch renderer precomputed neighbors and shapes, plus voxel domain early exit strategy (25%); FIX FPS cap held by a FrameLimiter (avoid multiple updates per draw and CPU time waste on missed fixed framerate); FIX DebugOverlay update rate accuracy; FIX TransistionScreen wa
NEW Chapter 2 available in EA; NEW Delete probes bonus stages ALT + Click; NEW Duplicator mode in library (sandbox mode); NEW Main background follows campaign progression; NEW Main menu shows global rank and composite score (after NAND); NEW Photo mode die top view preview (layer
Chapter 2 Prelaunch Test, only on the experimental branch NEW-EXP Chapter 2, overworld, scripts, music, stages, and final; NEW-EXP LoTechLooper and UBL chapter 2 musics + NVorbis deps; CX 2/4/8BitsTransmitter schematics; CX ABRegistersAndALU (random post-validation phase, powerin
SIM Optim pass; UX Live FPS (frames per second) and ticks/s in the benchmark info bar, over a 500ms window; FIX Benchmarks now wait for the ComponentEditorOrchestrator to be loaded and ready before starting benchmarking; FIX RenderFrameCount in benchmark is more accurate; MI Revi
NEW Contextual shortcut tips wired across the editor to remind shortcuts (only shortcuts for the moment; will be completed by other contextual tips); NEW Gameplay settings to hide the contextual shortcut tips and to reset the dismissed ones; NEW tutorials use tailored shortcut ti
MI Main menu background load the campaign levels before moving to it; SX-DEV New campaign levels CampaignLevelRegistersChip added; SX-DEV Introduced CampaignLevelAirlockPhase2Repair with scripts for terminal interactions and chip fabrication; SX-DEV New draft for CampaignLevelOve
SX Refactor campaign levels with the uniform CampaignLevelBase loading and lifecycle logic (areas, terminals and scripts) and cleanup. Groundwork to move overworld sections to come. CX Starting Inputs/Outputs location fix Multiplexer 8to1; MI Scheduling of new readouts on UI thre
FIX Levels no longer dispose the shared walking camera on teardown; ThreadDispatcher is shared and no longer per collision model; FIX OffScreenImGuiManagerPool tracks free slots and grows on demand instead of counting by dictionary size; MI Dev tools: ImGuiOneTimeButton and ImGui
NEW boot clear block; SIM Boot clear logic pulls down only during a power-up phase and then disconnects. This block is essential for specific latches or feedback-loop-based circuits, providing a signal to prime a loop; Used in specific latches to prime them; SIM Old Puller block
FIX Crash on probe expanded view (missing localized string, antiregression tests added); FIX crash on maximized probes; FIX Tutorial video race condition crash on dispose; TLS German coherence pass; MI Overworld editor features, LoadMaps editor world shifts and save last selectio
TLS Coherent French wording pass; TLS fix english mistakes; TLS missing keys in all languages; UX In report windows, globe icon link to the website rankings for that stage; allow reconnect when in offline mode; FIX Another defensive fix for CTD; FIX Tentative crash fix on corrupt
NEW Duplicator now with source and target modes (clipboard, blueprint or die) PERF Reducing GC pressure on simulation thread (5%ish); CX-EXP ALU Register and General-purpose register; CX-EXP ReadableDFlipFlop; CX-EXP Safe Byte Register; UX Floating Truth table fit columns width t
CX-XPR WritableDFlipflop challenge test; NEW Native crash handling + launcher (debug and crash handling purposes); CX-EXP new CSE import/export CSV for truth tables; CSE add Step button missing IDs, fix the step description modal, allow multibit output to be any; FIX reconcile ou
NEW Simple autocompletion in Terminals with Tab, ? as alias to help; UX Visual feedback of Alt Delete and Ctrl Build mode; CX Activate post rand phase on 8Bit Alu; FIX hotfix probes crashing and probe mouse capture zone (some times whole screen); MI Mediator thread safe unsubscri
CX Grades for XOR XOR3 XNOR XNOR3; UX Subprocess notes flash once on tutos, to bring attention to it; UX Build upward, avoid not building anything if the ghost was showing a block would be built; UX Allow probe to be Alt+Click (deleted) even when clicking on one of its button; FI
NEW Probe advanced view with graph for state over ticks; NEW Auto clock mode: clock blocks switch when the circuit settles; PERF Early exit for faster converging raymarch (AABB approach to avoid wasting rays out of bound); PERF Stop pulling all keys state for UI (costly at high f