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Just a suggestion, how about a slow time option for when run the verification test. It will help those of us who are not very good with circuits, by allowing us to see what is actually happening.
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Just to elaborate - counting it "done" at 97% means faulty circuits can pass. On level 2, my 1st 'and' gate was accidentally wired hot instead of to A - and yet passed. Surely there's a way to give some room for delay without passing mistakes. BTW, mine does work correctly now at 149.
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I'm a big fan of your games! This one has great potential, but needs some improvement in the user interface. 1) UNDO BUTTON! 2) Different cursors to show what tools you're using 3) Better keyboard shortcuts - maybe use space to switch between metal and silicon layers? A button you can hold down for a quick delete? 4) Please allow saves of levels in-game, and auto-save so you can come back easily! Anyway, I'm not an electrical engineer and half the fun is figuring out how things "should" be done. It would be less fun if the tutorial taught too much.
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I wish that I could figure this game out but the tutorial is pretty much useless. instead of easing you in it just throws everything at you with no explanations whatsoever. In short needs several small tutorial Levels not videos with better explanations.
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My Cheat Sheet:
N is Red,
P is Yellow (Press Shift for Yellow.2 Annoying, I know.)
NPN (AND logic gate) (Conducts through N when P, which is on top, is active and N is active)
PNP (NOT logic gate) (Conducts through P when N, which is on top, is inactive and P is active)
So, in a NPN, P permits N to pass.
In a PNP, N blocks P from passing.
This means all your PNP and NPN connections will form T shapes.
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Konstruktor is brilliant. Starting from the game title - managed to make a meaningful Cyrillic title using onle looking-alike Latin letters. The game made me to search about NOT, AND and OR circuits, and it's challenging even with the know-how. 5/5 for sure...
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Hmmm. I've read up to page 4 of the comments while searching for tips, and a lot of the complaints mention how hard it is to even understand the rules of this game. While the lack of a proper hands-on tutorial makes the learning curve look like Mt. Everest, the journey up that steep, steep slope constituted half the fun. The other half is finally figuring out a puzzle after you've learned just WTF each component does and how they work together!
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Beryllium8, a or gate is equal to a couple NPNs linked one side to vcc and the other to the exit which are to be linked togheter, the p side is the imput
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5. View Other's Creations - I boggle at the fact that someone can get 300+ points under me on a puzzle. But there is nearly no way for me to see what they did without scouring comments and loading theirs via that method. Why not let me complete the puzzle, then allow me to look at others designs, that way I can learn what I am doing wrong. Im sure there are Electrical Engineers that can pwn this game, but I am not one, so the concept of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!) is harder to master without that EE mindset...
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3. Button simplification - Why does shift toggle both the silicon type and the silicon/metal delete? Why not just have 4 buttons, one for each material, and then shift toggles the delete? I have a tendency to lay lots of one type of silicon/metal/connectors all at the same time, why not just let me hit shift to delete that specific type rather than having to change over to the deleting button...
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Wow. 5/5 for being a great game for electrical engineers. It does need a better tutorial though (one that explains basic principles of electronics such as AC Frequency, semi-conductors, and their use in logic gates) so that the average gamer could actually learn something from this game, rather than be daunted by it.
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if the maker of this game knew how to read real russian, he would realize the first word of the title says builder, and engineers are different from builders.
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Crucial tutorial instruction that just kinda flashes by: "By drawing N silicon over P silicon which creates a PNP gate which conducts current through the P silicon ONLY IF NO current is conducted in the N silicon. By drawing P silicon over N silicon, we create an NPN gate which conducts current across the N silicon ONLY IF current IS conducted through the P silicon." FYT (fixed your typ0)
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code for first level
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99% of the time, I just screw with metal an N-Type silicon because the tutorial never tells you how to change silicon and goes WAY too fast AND idk how to start the circits
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And here's another SR Latch with the startup noise mostly removed
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Hi everybody!
Is there a way to save the progress (not the design)? I am not sure whether this is game related or a problem of my browser (Opera + HTTP Switchboard). I have a Kongregate account and I am logged in while playing. However when I return the next day, all missions appear unflagged.
Besides, this game (and the others of this author) are just great. Check out his website, where you can also find a link to a YouTube version of the tutorial video.
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You should add a score calculations that count gates and "via" connections - less is better.
And a table of records. "Economy should be economical"... (c) L.I.Brejnev )))