Developer posts and news about this game.
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
PERF Nearly sub-voxel sdf domain exit logic for the raymarching render; PERF Mini optimization for the raymarching render; UX Changing the build upward experience with different hit boxes and strong arrow indication that you can go up (new attempt at making it smooth); UX Agent d
NEW-EXP Player details linked to the webpage, and worldwide ranking; NEW-EXP StageGlobalLeaderboards service for seeing stage global leaderboard from the website; SRV Player details stats and numbers building logic; MI CORS for Website leaderboard; FIX Minmax in global stage lead
HOTFIX Regression impossible to start a new game, thanks BLRplex for reporting this🙏🙏🙏
NEW Handy Clipboard image viewer to import schematics from outside HC (search OR NOR for example in your favorite search engine, image section); NEW-EXP Subprocess overlay brings a little bit of context to each stage during the campaign. UX Subprocess notes disappearing gracefull
UX Input/Output pin assignments follow a die Z extension; UX hard to delete labels with Alt+LClick; MI Key press logic updated for the new UI stack; TLS Adding missing keys and russian reviewed update; TLS Translation pass on newly added key from the localization repository; TLS
NEW Fast Raymarching renderer (for a price in visual fidelity); NEW-EXP UI scale settings (1x to 2.5x, but work still in progress!); NEW-EXP Japanese localization (work in progress); NEW-EXP Simplified Chinese Localization (work in progress); PERF SDF distance-adaptive thresholdi
NEW OpenCommunity v1 added to PastGauntlets screen; UX Export button in the Library screen, in all lists, to facilitate sharing designs; UX Stop removing input block when pasting blueprint; UX/UI Revisited probe minimized state; MI Cleaner volatile buffer for Indicator rebuilding
My humble contribution for week 4 OCGv1 is officially wrapped. Four weeks, four incrementally harder challenges, and some genuinely impressive transistor-level optimization from everyone who competed. Big thanks to the community member who initiated and drove this whole thing: th