Greetings, Hard Chip players!
After the fun and tremendous learning opportunities of the Foundry Gauntlet Rev0, a new round of experimental weekly challenges felt inevitable! And so this is that time again! Hard Chip is announcing a new Gauntlet Foundry Rev1 challenge, starting November 1st at 18:00 UTC. Mark the date!
How It Works
3-Weekly Stages + 1 warm-up week. Every Saturday at 18:00 UTC, a brand-new challenge drops. You’ll have exactly one week to build, optimize, and submit your solution before the next stage unlocks. Progress Tracking: Visit the gauntlet section on hardchip.io to track your real-time rankings and scores. Exclusive Reward: At the end of the event, the top five players on the overall leaderboard will receive a special editor background to display in the editor. And the top 3 will each receive a Steam key to give to a friend!
Why Join?
Push Your Limits. Each week’s requirements ramp up in complexity, challenging creative approaches to transistor budgets and layout. This will be hard! Community Rivalry Watch your rank climb (or scramble!) in real time and see how you stack up against fellow chip-smiths. Test out experimental game mechanics. This is the opportunity to test out and give feedback on how hard HardChip can reasonably be with special features and/or game mechanics!
How to Join?
For now, just wait! But starting November 1st at 18:00 UTC, Main menu -> Gauntlet Foundry Rev1. Upon finishing the Inverter stage, you can access the event from the main menu!
The complete rules, theme, and event details will be shared soon. Stay tuned for the next post here on Steam!