Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 etched its final layer, and it was something! Event Winners: 🥇 Mysterious Beeskyi-ymZERO Architect - 293.3 pts 🥈 Gavaldor - 264.6 pts 🥉 HeilTec - 257.0 pts 4️⃣ tyrnid - 250.5 pts 5️⃣ sillymel - 234.1 pts #engineering #cpudesign #gamedev

1h30 remaining in Week 3 (final) of Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 ⏳⚙️ One last sprint to polish, compress, and submit your circuit. Finish strong - the fab floor is yours. 🔥🧠 (screenshot: one player's solution from last week)

🏆FGR1-Week2 just concluded! Congrats to the winners! Podium this round: Mysterious Architect +100 pts Gavaldor +83.3 pts HeilTec +82.7 pts The competition imposed by #1 is hard, the top spots came at a significant cost and seriously clean engineering! (screenshots, best vs naive reference!)

⏳ Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 – Week 2 ends in 13h! Last call to lock in your design before the leaderboard freezes. Good luck, engineers; make those transistors shine! ⚡️ And because each week builds on the previous one, here are some fine designs to inspire you! #engineering #cpudesign #gamedev

Video out for the Gauntlet Event Week 2! - How to build a Simple Mirrored Gated DLatches Array youtu.be/PZD9O4BOdJw

Chip of the week: The Neat DLatch Cell👌, winner of week-1 of Foundry Gauntlet Rev1! #cpudesign #gamedev #Engineering Taking place now in Hard Chip! Join the fray now! All details at hardchip.io/gauntlets/fo...

Cheers to the builders crushing this new week of the gauntlet round! 🚀 Updated standings: 🌟 Mysterious Beeskyi-ymZERO Architect - 93.4 ⚡ tyrnid - 90.0 💡 RebelMike - 89.6 🔥 sillymel - 89.0 🔧 Gavaldor - 87.9 Amazing designs across the board, every week, the solutions get more and more creative.

⏳ Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 – Week 1 ends in 3h30! Last call to lock in your design before the leaderboard freezes. Good luck, engineers; make those transistors shine! ⚡️ You're late to the party? Watch this getting started! youtube.com/watch?v=7b-1... (thiccck French accent disclaimer!)

Warm-Up Week 0 is wrapped! 🏁 Huge congratulations to Mysterious Architect for taking the top spot in the Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 opener! Special shoutout to Sillymel, who led 3 metrics and beat the seemingly unbeatable first place for 5 mins!🔥 Week 1 has already begun, see you on the leaderboard⚙️✨

Chip of the week: The Unbeatable DLatch #engineering #gamedev #cpudesign #tournament #gauntlet

⚙️ The HardChip Foundry #Gauntlet Rev1 is LIVE! 3 weekly stages + warm-up week — build, optimize & compete in a battle of #logic. 🏆 Top 5: exclusive background 🎁 Top 3: Steam key for a friend 🗓️ First week: DLATCH ! Starts now! → store.steampowered.com/news/app/284... #Tech #Computing #Engineering

Chip of the Week: The Compact SRLatch! #Engineering #puzzle #Semiconductors #DigitalDesign #LearnElectronics

Announcing Foundry Gauntlet Rev1 - Scaling things up: Next Week! store.steampowered.com/news/app/284... #gauntlet #engineering

🗣️⁉️ Open question: When you see this video of the concept of a new sort of challenge, how do you feel about it? Excited 🤩 Intrigued 🤨 Surprised 😮 Anxious 🫠 Afraid 😱?

Hard Chip participates in the Ada Lovelace Festival once more!🎉A celebration of games about automation & programming. This time around, Hard Chip is at 20% off! Happy Ada Lovelace Day! store.steampowered.com/curator/4258... #AdaLovelaceDay #IndieGames #engineering

ℹ️ Dev blog update #62! Dive into the new Experimental Branch, Clock Customization, and the revamped Validation Pipeline and more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...

Chip of the week: The Busy AND gate #Engineering #semiconductors #indiedev #videogames

Chip of the week : The Honest and Readable 4NANDs XOR Gate #engineering #cpudesign #nand #hardchip

Dev blog #61: Quite a few things happened behind the scenes, but I still have some things to show! store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...

Chip of the week: Perfectly Balanced 8-bit Carry Look-Ahead Adder #Engineering #indiedev #videogames

Chip of the week: The Amazing but Slow Tristate Buffer! #Engineering #spaghettimonster #indiedev #videogames

Chip of the week: The Compact AND Gate Spaghetti Monster! #Engineering #semiconductors #indiedev #videogames

Little did you know, but Hard Chip is also a Canadian-made game 🇨🇦! Joining the fray for the #canadiangamesale from July 1 to July 8! store.steampowered.com/curator/4554... #gamedev #IndieGame

Chip of the week: Visually Satisfying Byte Transmitter 👀! #indiegame #engineering #cpudesign

Dev blog #60: I tried to make this short but there was a lot to cover 😬. But it sums up accurately what was done since last update! store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...

I tried hard to make that crash happen again. #glitchart #circuitsimulation #indiedev #screenshot

Chip of the week: 4-2Bit Priority Encoder, Week 2 winner of the Foundry Gauntlet Rev0! It gave everyone a hard time until the last minute! Congrats to the winner 🏆 #cpudesign #indiegame #gamedev #IndieGameDev #competition #Engineering #event #indiedev #steam #videogamescreenshot

🏆 Just finished the reward for the Top 5 players of the Foundry Gauntlet event! 🏆 ⏰ 24 hours left to submit Week 2 scores! And then onward to Week 3; those points carry forward, so make them count! #cpudesign #indiedev #indiegame #steam #gamedev #IndieGameDev #competition #Engineering #event !

⏰ 24 hours left to submit Week 1 scores! Week 2 of FGR-0 opens tomorrow; those points carry forward, so make them count! 🏆 Prizes: Top 5 get special editor background, Top 3 get Steam keys to share with friends Access: HC Main Menu → "4 Weeks Challenge" Final push time! 💪 #HardChip #LastChance !

The 4 Weeks Challenge - Foundry Gauntlet Rev0 has begun! store.steampowered.com/news/app/284... #cpudesign #indiedev #indiegame #steam #gamedev #IndieGameDev #videogamescreenshot #competition #Engineering #Design #event

ℹ️ Dev blog update #59! store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...

Chip of the week: 4-bit Negator, a community-made challenge! #cpudesign #indiedev #indiegame #steam #gamedev #IndieGameDev #videogamescreenshot

Chip of the week: The Behemoth 8 Transistors NAND Gate Way too many for a NAND gate! But this is an interesting attempt, resulting in a new validation rule. Before it validated, it wasn't incorrect per se, but it was misleading. A good example of HC's players helping improve HC!#cpudesign #indiegame

Chip of the week: The custom clocked Nibble Multiplier #cpudesign #indiedev #indiegame #steam #gamedev #IndieGameDev #videogamescreenshot

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focused on realism. Delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay! #cpudesign #indiegame #steam #gamedev #IndieGameDev #videogames Wishlist and try it out here! store.steampowered.com/app/2844290/...

Chip of the week: A playful "all 16MOS or bust" mux based nor gate!