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• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2022

  very fun to play with. runs well on linux and im quite happy to see a polished godot game.
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2022

  This is by far the best logic gate simulator I've used. The simulation is really fast, the interface is intuitive, and it just looks clean. On top of all that the Dev listens to feedback and is really nice. 10/10
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2022

  If you're recommended this game or you searched for it you probably know what you're in for. Very well optimized compared to logic world, and a better sandbox than turing complete. The game treats inks in two ways if you don't count the decorations, traces and gates. There's the usual gate types, and, or, xor, not, nand, nor, xnor, latch, clock and buffer, all orthogonal gates of the same type become one component. Adjacent gates merge into a single component, components don't activate traces outside of read/write inks. Traces carry the signals from read/write inks, but you can also put read/write inks adjacent to one other and they'll carry the signal as well. There's a lot of tricks that you can stumble into with this system to get really tick and space efficient circuits, and the system lends itself to a lot of interesting problems If it was just that system it'd be a pretty good circuit board sandbox game, instead you've got an entire assembly system on top of that. Up to 32 bits of content with addressable with 20 bit addresses that you can tone down for smaller circuits if you wanted. The performance, overall polish, and the unique memory/assembly system makes this a strong recommend over any of the other circuit/assembly type games.
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2022

  Back in my day, we had redstone which updated 10 times per second. Seriously though, never in my life did I think that there would be a digital logic simulator that could run millions of updates per second. This game is the future.
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2022

  This is a really fun sandbox for experimenting with digital logic. The visual design aspects bring a unique freedom to experiment and play, which makes VCB a stand out from other offerings in this genre. There is a bit of a learning curve to the interface, but the documentation is ample. It could stand to have more examples for beginners. There's a whole Assembly aspect to it I have yet to explore, but am very much looking forward to dusting off my 8080 manual. It's very polished for Early Access, I've encountered a few little quirks with copy/paste + undo/redo that could use some ironing out, but nothing major. If any of the following apply to you, then VCB is probably for you: - You're a fan of digital logic gates and building up components from them - You enjoy games like Logic World, DLS, Turing Complete - You're into Simple-As-Possible architecture and may or may not own several editions of Digital Computer Electronics (Malvino/Brown). - You have built the Ben Eater computer or similar on breadboards (or really want to) - You're into creating your own assemblers and writing assembly. - You have an appreciation for well-made projects using the Godot game engine I've had this sitting on my wishlist for a while and was really stoked to see it land just before the weekend. I'm already having a blast building up some components, and look forward to the future of this game!
• gamedeal user

  May 27, 2022

  Honestly a awesome looking game, but they sacrifice looks for readability. The game is just to hard to debug and see whats going on, not hard as in too realistic I mean too hard as in, you can't get a good look of whats going on because the game has small little dots that have different colors as their primary.. well, everything. That is the whole game is just a bunch of dots as logic gates making it extremely hard to see whats going on and hard to understand.
• gamedeal user

  May 30, 2022

  I am definitely one of those folks, who would consider trying to draw my own CPU a great way to spend my time. And that's what this game offers. Drawing and programming circuits. However, it would help greatly to introduce some modularity and basic component library. While drawing a register, adder or decoder from scratch may be a fun once, it is rather inconvenient to fix eventual glitch in all of its copies throughout multiple designs. These parts should be components/modules/references rather than dumb copies. Otherwise, I like those editing tools.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2022

  I don't often write reviews, but I really want this game to succeed! I've built computers in Logisim, and I've made Redstone circuits in Minecraft, but I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. It's hard to call VCB a "game" as it is a pure sandbox, but this is a good thing! There are no components or game-modes to unlock, no resources to grind, no esoteric puzzles to solve. You are given everything you need, to build whatever you want, right from the start. If you are the type of player who prefers playing in "creative mode" this is the game for you! Despite being in Early Access, there is still a tone of stuff that can be built with the game. To get an idea of what is possible, just look at some of the screenshots people have been posting. It's also blazing fast! The fastest logic simulator I've ever seen. (Verilog is probably faster, but I never got into that). My main complaint with other logic simulators, like Logisim, is that they are too slow, making certain designs impractical. But I don't have that limitation here. On top of that, the developer has several ideas they want to implement in latter iterations of the game. I believe they have mentioned real time components, a virtual monitor, and a virtual keyboard, to name a few. This has the potential to become one of the best logic simulators of all time, and could easily replace Logisim as my go-to favorite. My favorite part of this simulator is it's speed and simplicity. You get the basic logic gates, and few extra components like a toggle latch, and that's all you really need. More advanced stuff, like IO and memory are handled through a separate system. Also, because there are no sub-circuits or advanced components, you get to see the entire circuit laid out before you, in all it's complexity, which I think is a beautiful thing. One downside is that there is no tutorial that explains how everything works, just a short in-game manual. If you don't know anything about Digital Logic, then a game like VBC might be overwhelming. But if you are willing to learn on your own, I think it's worth it. I highly recommend Ben Eater's Youtube series on Building An 8-bit Breadboard Computer. Otherwise, there are other games that do a better job of teaching these concepts, which you might want to play first. TLDR: If you know anything about Digital Logic, buy this game! If you don't know anything about Digital Logic, but are willing to learn on your own, buy this game! Otherwise, play a different game that teaches Digital Logic, then come back and buy this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 30, 2022

  I like it a lot.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 22, 2022

  Computer science is an art in some sense, and Virtual Circuit Board unequivocally confirms that. Ever wanted to create an assembly language from scratch, design and implement a new CPU architecture and work with the hardware in an intuitive and fun way? Or to create your own 7-segment display or LED screen? VCB happens to cover all that and even more. VCB may help to develop a strong intuition of how logic gates compose a functioning circuit, guide you step by step towards more complex things, such as how a CPU works on a fundamental level or what CPU cycles are, or how assembly instructions make the CPU tick and provide us with the desired output. The potential of VCB is enormous, and I hope it will succeed. It's a fun simulator/sandbox/tool with sleek UI, and your imagination is the only limit.