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• gamedeal user

  Jul 31, 2022

  Let's me relive the trauma I endured during my undergrad in computer engineering but without the fear of failing out of uni. 12/10
• 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

  Sep 30, 2022

  we need integrated circuits (or something that lets you turn a circuit into an integrated circuit)
• 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

  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

  Aug 29, 2022

  There is only one thing you need to understand about this "game" - it's not a game, it's a simulation program that's more similar to LTSpice or ModelSim. So there's no campaign or missions or goals, it's just a giant educational sandbox.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 22, 2022

  Although I was greatly excited for this game's promise of mixing digital circuitry with programmatic instructions, and despite my appreciation for the implementation of that feature, I am under-impressed with the circuit simulator which has a considerable lag, the likes of which would not be noticed at the circuit level (where we seem to work) and would only become a problem at the transistor level and at ultra-high speeds along with a few other edge case conditions; the nature of this problem is very clear: it takes an entire tick for a logic gate to realize that it should be active making many fundamental digital circuits, such as latches, impossible to reconstruct from schematics. Should the author(s) ever change the simulation model to one that togles the gates instantly, --- within a single tick, --- or by similar means enables a more natural simulation of the logic, I would gladly recommend this game. But until then...
• gamedeal user

  Aug 17, 2022

  For when you want to make a computer from scratch but don't have the room to store a hundred breadboards on a table. So far I've only worked on displays and mutiplexing signals but I do intend to build a cpu from memory as the rather good looking interface makes it appealing to try.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 24, 2022

  I may be autistic
• gamedeal user

  Jun 30, 2022

  I like it a lot.