ChipWits Worlds

About This Game ChipWits Worlds is an engineering sandbox and colony simulation where every robot is driven by an authentic, simulated MOS 6502 CPU: the legendary microprocessor that powered the Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, and Atari 2600. Take command of mass-produced 8-bit robots dropped onto lethal alien worlds. Program their subroutines in hand-crafted assembly, construct thriving industrial colonies, manage complex power grids, and optimize your autonomous swarms to survive hostile alien ecosystems. TRUE BARE-METAL ROBOTICS (REAL 6502 ASSEMBLY) No high-level abstractions or black boxes. Every ChipWit in your colony runs a cycle-accurate 65C02 microprocessor with 64KB of unified RAM, memory-mapped I/O registers, and direct hardware interrupts. Experience the exact architecture that kickstarted the personal computing and console revolution: - Write & Optimize Real Code: Hand-craft 6502 subroutines to read distance sensors, toggle manipulators, route power, and manage cargo directly at the register level (A, X, Y, and stack). - Modular Software Architecture: Build your colony's operating system with modular .prg action routines, allowing your bots to share libraries, adapt to new modules, and self-modify routines on the fly. COLONY SIMULATION & POWER GRID ENGINEERING Extract rare resources, refine materials, and construct an industrial supply chain to expand your footprint across the planet. - Energy Economy: Deploy solar arrays, balance battery buffers, and wire up expansive power networks. - Sol/Night Cycle: When the sun dips below the horizon, solar power drops to zero. If your battery reserves run dry before dawn, your bots will shut down in the dark, becoming easy prey for what lurks outside. - Logistics & Infrastructure: Build charging pads, automated fabrication bays, defensive turrets, and radar towers to support your growing fleet. EXPONENTIAL TECH TREE & HARDWARE UPGRADES Reinvest harvested Silicon and volatile Curium into an extensive multi-tier research tree to unlock advanced hardware, structures, and capabilities: * Hardware Evolution: Upgrade your fleet across 5 technology tiers, equipping high-frequency CPU overclocks, expanded RAM banks, high-capacity batteries, LIDAR arrays, X-Ray vision, holonomic drives, and jetpacks. * Field Research Discounts: Accelerate scientific breakthroughs through practical execution. Test navigation subroutines, survive nocturnal attacks, and push your clock cycles in the field to earn substantial research discounts. * Miniaturization & Power Optimization: Advancing through higher tech tiers automatically miniaturizes legacy components, slashing their energy draw by 50%. Engineer hyper-efficient, low-power scout bots and sensor buoys that can operate in the field indefinitely. THREE WAYS TO COMMAND: IMMEDIATE MODE TO FULL AUTONOMY You don’t have to program complex pathfinding on day one. Seamlessly transition between three levels of control: - Immediate Mode: Take direct, real-time tactical control of individual bots or squads to scout, mine, and build manually. - Parameterized Actions: Direct bots with high-level waypoints and tasks while their local assembly subroutines handle obstacle avoidance, mining, and tool operation. - Autonomous Mode: Let your bots run fully autonomous scripts, scouting through the Fog of War, repairing damaged comrades, and constructing the base entirely on their own. SURVIVE A HOSTILE ALIEN ECOSYSTEM The planet’s glowing purple terrain is as hazardous as it is lucrative: - Navigate the Ionic Shallows: Hazardous pools and corrosive ionic shallows cut across the archipelago, short-circuiting unshielded bots and blocking critical transit routes until you research chassis insulation and bridge the gap. - Predatory Electrocrabs: Energy-devouring native pests hunt your bots in packs, drain their power cells dry, and scurry back to the ionic shallows to lay eggs and multiply. - Tactical Defense: Equip your bots with radar Scopes and high-energy Zappers, or build automated defensive perimeters to secure your industrial operations through the night. - Fog of War Exploration: Probe unexplored sectors using specialized sensor modules to uncover precious Silicon and Curium crystals, navigate treacherous terrain, and locate lost research drop-pods. KEY FEATURES - Cycle-Accurate 6502 Simulation: Program autonomous agents using authentic 65C02 machine code: the architecture behind the C64, NES, and Apple II. - Deep Colony Automation: Design self-sustaining supply chains, mining operations, and expansive electrical grids. - Hybrid Control Paradigm: Effortlessly switch between immediate mode commands and pure autonomous assembly execution. - Dynamic Day/Night Survival: Survive grueling 20-minute planetary cycles where nocturnal predators swarm deactivated machinery.