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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: Add two opcodes to 6502 code and hit "Branch out of range"? 8-bit relative branches only reach 127 bytes. Our preprocessor auto-emits 5-byte trampolines (Bxx *+5 / JMP) for long blocks, with 1:1 line stepping in the debugger! #RetroComputing #C64 #GameDev

Code comparison showing 6502 branch range overflow on the left versus clean 5-byte generated trampoline on the right.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: Autonomous bots run on loops: scanning grids, counting steps, and running state machines. We added structured .while, .until, and .forever loops to our 6502 assembly engine. Zero cycle overhead, zero label spaghetti. #RetroComputing #C64 #GameDev

Code comparison showing raw 6502 loop bookkeeping with manual branch-overs on the left versus clean structured .while_nz and .forever loops on the right.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: Testing equality in 6502 assembly is mental gymnastics: you want "if equal", so you write BNE to branch away. Our new .if_eq / .else / .endif macros eliminate inverted branch clutter with zero cycle penalty. #RetroComputing #C64 #GameDev

Code comparison showing raw 6502 inverted branch assembly logic on the left versus clean structured macros .if_eq, .else, and .endif on the right.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Throwback to 2023: rescuing 1984 ChipWits source from 40-year-old floppies. A few disks had bad sectors, but John Morris (Applesauce FDC) restored 100% of Doug Sharp's MacFORTH code in weeks! Preserved on GitHub ever since: github.com/chipwits/chi... #FloppyDisk #RetroComputing

Composite graphic showing original 1984 ChipWits 3.5-inch microfloppy disks, Applesauce forensic disk imaging software, and recovered MacFORTH source code, rescued in 2023.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Purists call manual control "cheating" in automation games. We disagree. ChipWits Worlds believes in symbiosis: autonomous 6502 code for routines, human steering for crises. Our HUD tracks it: - 0-2: Full Autonomy - 3-30: Symbiosis (our goal!) - 31+: Manual Guidance #GameDev #IndieGame

ChipWits Worlds game design devlog graphic debating manual control versus full autonomy, showing in-game HUD action counter and telemetry tiers.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: How does a 65C02 CPU steer skates, read sensors, and play audio? Memory-Mapped I/O ($F000-$F7FF). Our new include file replaces cryptic hex pokes (STA $F011) with clean, readable robot constants (STA PORT_SKATE_UNIT). #RetroComputing #C64 #GameDev

Code comparison showing cryptic raw hexadecimal memory-mapped I/O addresses on the left versus self-documenting equates from PORTS.INC on the right.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: In-game manual QoL! Click the page number or hit Ctrl+G to jump straight to any page in the 65C02 Reference Guide. Foreword roman numerals are gone for 1:1 page alignment. Any UX ideas to make reading docs in-game even better? #RetroComputing #GameDev #DevLog

In-game 65C02 Reference Guide reader open to page 50 showing an opcode matrix table, with a red circle highlighting the new editable page number input field and Ctrl+G navigation bar.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: An embarrassing gamedev mistake: never map F12 in-game! A YouTuber testing our game pointed out that F12 is Steam's screenshot key: every robot reboot snapped a screenshot! 🤦‍♂️ Reboot is safely moved to F11. #Steam #GameDev #IndieDev #DevLog

In-game keypad showing the Reboot button remapped to hotkey F11 with an informational tooltip explaining that it restarts the robot CPU.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: The mystery of glowing rocks at dusk. Whenever our sun dipped below the horizon, grazing shadow cascades leaked light backward through terrain. Now night is pitch-black: code your robot feeler, or bump into rocks! 🌙 #Unity #GameDev #DevLog

Side-by-side comparison of ChipWits Worlds terrain at dusk. Left: Before the fix, where grazing light leaked backwards making terrain rocks glow. Right: After the fix, showing accurate pitch-black darkness with only the ChipWit and blue crystals dimly visible.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: Blinking an LED shouldn't need 20 lines of code. Our battery-powered robots used to burn power spinning in DEX countdown loops. With WDC 65C02 WAI + EOR #$FF, the whole sleep marquee is just 5 instructions! #6502Assembly #RetroComputing #GameDev #DevLog

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: Migrated our in-game manual from LibreOffice to Typst. Writing functions for repetitive 6502 tables like flags and opcodes keeps everything uniform, and the whole PDF compiles in under 1 second! #Typst #RetroComputing #GameDev #DevLog

Side-by-side showcase: Typst source code highlighting the #flags function call on the left, and the compiled manual PDF output showing the resulting status flags table on the right.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: Huge shoutout to our lead tester! She spotted tiny white pixels in the extreme corners of our Programmer's Guide cover. Root cause: an SVG rounded rectangle clipped against the square bleed. Darn you, rounded rectangles! Fixed now. #BuildInPublic #GameDev #DevLog

Split-screen graphic: on the left, Lead Tester Spotted showing the guide cover header with zoomed-in insets centered on both rogue corner pixels; on the right, Root cause in the SVG showing the rounded rectangle corner arc exposing the white canvas beneath.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🛠️ ChipWits Worlds Devlog: The Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide was my programming bible growing up. I wanted to capture that exact feeling for our in-game manual while writing 6502 assembly for your robots! #RetroComputing #C64 #GameDev #DevLog

Side-by-side comparison: the physical 1982 Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide next to the ChipWits Worlds in-game 65C02 manual, assembly code editor, and 3D robot.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚀 Play the ChipWits Worlds FREE DEMO during Steam Programming Fest! 🤖 Program autonomous robots on an alien world with cycle-accurate 6502 assembly. Debug routines & guide bots home! 🗓️ Sep 10–14 (10 AM PT) 🎮 Play free: store.steampowered.com/app/4960100 #SteamFest #SteamDemo #Coding

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

⚡ ChipWits is 50% OFF for Steam Programming Fest. Our deepest discount EVER! ⚡ Program autonomous robots to solve puzzles with visual wiring or low-level logic. 🗓️ Sep 10–14 (Ends 10 AM PT) • Only $5.49! 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/2330720/... #SteamProgrammingFest #SteamSale #IndieGame #Coding

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Congratulations to jerric01 🥇 for winning the Winter Games 2026 ChipWit Challenge: Giant Slalom! Watch his bot's creative technique defy gravity and clock in at only 240 cycles! #indiedev #coding #puzzle #games #programming

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday! ⛷️🤖 I added a "Giant Slalom" puzzle to ChipWits. Coding logic to navigate these icy gates without wiping out is harder than it looks! Can you optimize your bot to take the gold? 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/2330720/... #IndieDev #GameDev #PuzzleGame #Coding #Programming

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ChipWits 1.4 is out now! The "Giant Slalom" mission is available in the free demo! Who can ski to the bottom with the fewest cycles?⛷️🤖 We also added in-game cycle and chip counts! store.steampowered.com/news/app/233... #gamedev #indiedev #ChipWits #Steam #puzzle #coding

Screenshot of the game ChipWits showing a robot navigating a snowy slalom course. The interface displays new in-game Chip and Cycle count statistics.

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We're catching up on our ChipWit Challenge win videos. Belated congratulations to Torch for winning the Oct 2025 Infested ChipWit Challenge. Those 80 electrocrabs didn't stand a chance! #indiedev #coding #puzzle #games #screenshotsaturday

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We're catching up on our ChipWit Challenge win videos. Belated congratulations to Torch for winning the Sep 2025 Prism ChipWit Challenge. He solved the puzzle with only 19 chips! #indiedev #coding #puzzle #games

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We're catching up on our ChipWit Challenge win videos. Belated congratulations to jerric01 for winning the Feb 2025 Snowman ChipWit Challenge. He solved the puzzle with only 31 chips! #indiedev #coding #puzzle #games

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

👇 Paste in Set the Table in Free Demo + optimize! chipwits:H4sIAAAAAAAACm2PPQ7CMAyF4x9S46nylAll7MrABXqyHoizcCYsQtw2oEjRk/35+Vk30icoi87ZWKSAiUyGcw5FocCVytV4RYGo8tBnw5oKVXY/KGTp9BqJQUKQOJCpEcu9cN03oL563L4K3KBHpY9VX338G3GJQM38cZr+hlryoTr9PQ8q7pGG09g1y81pFPo9aJiGNx36mBKDAQAA #gamedev #puzzle #indiedev

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

ChipWits 1.3 is live! 🍽️🤖 We merged Demo & Main leaderboards and added new "Surface" tiles. To celebrate, we permanently dropped the Steam price! Try the "Set the Table" challenge this weekend: chipwits.com/2026/01/17/c... #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #puzzle

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Thanks to @playcrafting.bsky.social and @igdanyc.bsky.social for sponsoring Game-A-Palooza in NYC! It was awesome to see so many people enjoying #ChipWits. Thanks for stopping by! #NYMakesGames #nyc #indiegames #events

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Congratulations to Jerric, who topped the leaderboard on the Back to School ChipWit Challenge, Pencil Shards! Jerric programmed a ChipWit to collect all 6 shards in a median of just 443 cycles! #puzzlegames #indiedev #programming

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Congratulations to Dyxa Gaming, who won the ChipWits 2025 Mid-Summer challenge with only 17 chips! Here is a playback of his solution. #indiedev #programming #wishlistwednesday

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We're part of Steam Automation Fest, and we're offering a 10% discount for the event! Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts! store.steampowered.com/app/2330720/... #automationfest #programming #game #indiedev #NYMakesGames

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Share and Like if you remember Greedy in Greedville on an Apple II. Relive the memory at chipwits.com/retro #appleii #retrogaming

ChipWits: Greedy in Greedville on an Apple II

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Share and Like if you remember Carusoid in Greedville on a Commodore 64. Relive the memory at chipwits.com/retro #c64 #commodore64 #commodore #retro

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ChipWits & ChipWits Worlds 🤖 Available on Steam! @chipwits.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Share and Like if you remember Greedy in Greedville on a Mac. Relive the memory at chipwits.com/retro #mac #apple #retro #macintosh #128k

Screenshot of ChipWits: Greedy in Greedville on a Mac

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