Show HN: I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game

rafinha | 137 points

I tried the demo and I liked it!

I would prefer if I could pick a color in a faster way than switching to the color picker or using the palette: maybe middle click or Ctrl + left-click (gimp does that). It would reduce the mouse travel quite a bit; sometimes I happen to have the exact color I want next to my cursor.

I would also suggest putting the trailer on Steam. All I see is images in the steam carousel thing; I think the trailer being in the carousel would help.

madflame991 | 5 days ago

Build instructions are a bit sparse.

$ git clone https://github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever/circuit-artist... Cloning into 'circuit-artist'... remote: Enumerating objects: 326, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (326/326), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (269/269), done. remote: Total 326 (delta 59), reused 306 (delta 52), pack-reused 0 (from 0) Receiving objects: 100% (326/326), 1.41 MiB | 7.70 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (59/59), done. $ cd circuit-artist/ $ mkdir build $ cd build/ $ cmake . CMake Warning: Ignoring extra path from command line:

   "."
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/chris_ji/code/circuit-artist/build" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt. Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI. $ cmake .. -- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.4.0 -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.4.0 -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped -- Detecting C compile features -- Detecting C compile features - done -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped -- Detecting CXX compile features -- Detecting CXX compile features - done CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:17 (add_subdirectory): The source directory

    /home/chris_ji/code/circuit-artist/third_party/raylib

  does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:18 (add_subdirectory): The source directory

    /home/chris_ji/code/circuit-artist/third_party/nativefiledialog-extended

  does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! $
dusted | 4 days ago

That looks super cool.

I started to build a game around my wired-logic proof of concept (https://github.com/martinkirsche/wired-logic) but never had time to finish it (the ideas are still developing in my head, tho).

However I am very happy to see that publishing it, was not for nothing.

mkirsche | 4 days ago

I don't know if you have given it a try, but check out industrial tools like Cadence Virtuoso and Innovus. by letting people design their own standard cells, you can let your players go deeper down the rabbit hole.

imtringued | 4 days ago

Oh wow. Awesome. I had an idea for similar game for system design but got bogged down trying to learn game dev. This is so cool

mattdeboard | 5 days ago

I think let’s-all-be-stupid-forever should cut themselves a bit of slack - this is pretty cool.

cushychicken | 4 days ago

This may be a great complement to the first half of the nand2tetris course.

hhhAndrew | 4 days ago

Does it have a maximum fan-out of the gates, like real gates do?

amelius | 5 days ago

Very cool!

msephton | 5 days ago