Somewhere around 3:50 it ends up being all down to luck - either you get right items or you die. Well you need some skills or items won't help, but you can have all skills in the world and you will still die if the first 5-8 boxes have no or useless stuff.
How to make a diode? Those transistors don't work like diodes. I'm stuck with 3rd design, I can easily make either OR or AND gate, but not them together - they interfere with each other and I don't see how to avoid that without diodes...
Well the game was really fun on 'normal', maybe a little too easy. But 'harder' (for the badge) is ridiculous. No one, even the developer wouldn't be able to win it most of the time - it's no more about playing good, but rather getting lucky. Disappointing.
For Bourgeoisie reset your upgrades and then select all except homing beacon, rabit's foot and rain dance. Still hard but not impossible, which it is with those 3 upgraded. Hope this helps.
Was struggling until I read what it said inside the bubbles at the start. After that it just got too easy :-) Always go for the heaviest ship - BFT carrier is undestroyable and kills most of enemies all by itself - it has auto fire. If you don't feel like waiting too long - press space once :-]