Reviews

• 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 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 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

  Jul 31, 2022

  to the curious and blind eye: i have only been playing with this for a half hour but from what i can tell is its almost like using wire in terraria except very complex, though very user friendly mixed with redstone in minecraft. its on what i would call a 2.5D plane due to some of the utilities you can use, there is a really good instructive guide to help you on said dimensional plane. i have experience with redstone in MC and a great understanding of numeric binary which.. not bragging by any means is very simple. one thing that is different to say is with this compared to MC is you don't have to build logic gates by hand, its literally just a pixel or more you place down on the grid. Starting off: it shows you a basic example as well as having another advanced example at your finger tips thus showing the potential of this app. i am using caps for this next bit to see if this can be adjusted in the guide and probably the first thing anyone should know ADD AN INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO NAVIGATE THE BOARD, took me 20 minutes to figure out and there is no documentation on it, maybe I'm just bad at that type of thing. Recommendations for dev: Make instructions how how to navigate the board more prominent. add a 2d option where it is nothing but the lines you place, no 2.5D edges to make it look like it has depth, makes it kind of confusing when looking at bigger things in my experience. add a close proximity pixel grid so you know how big you made certain things, makes quick replication jobs quicker. all in all i understand this is early access, and to anyone who may be doubtful, don't be, this is a very affordable and very powerful tool and for anyone who wishes to have PCB experience, this is a good start, and i hope to see a hell of a lot more from this, maybe even another app later on advancing on things like resistance and so on. this is the first thing i have seen in this fields regard that's this basic, affordable and to a new eye understandable even if you don't know assembly (I don't but i wish to learn) and yet you could write a whole book on it. sorry to make it long but i'm 23, couldn't/can't afford college and I'm passionate about electrical and micro electronic engineering. and hope the dev listens.
• 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

  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.