A little box

[Lord Testosticles]

That level is really something, huh? I beat it but I feel like my solution was really ugly. I guess you can't help it when you have to fit the whole thing into that little space. I can't say I really *like* that level but I guess it still reinforces some concepts that perhaps we all need to know before moving on. It was an interesting challenge having to mux so many pins in so tight a space. Not to give it all away, but am I stupid in thinking that you need an awful lot of AND gates in there?

[uNiels 💗]

I used 4 ANDs with 3 input pins each

[MobyPurvy]

One thing I figured out way too late was that you could rotate components. This makes it waaaay easier to design and layout nicely.

Developer -- might want to work that into the scaffolding somewhere (unless I missed it!).

[pickupsticks]

8 triple-pin-ANDs and a couple of NOTs for me. Thinking about it, that's probably more than it needs... guess I'll have another look at it once I've gotten hold of my next cup of coffee tomorrow morning.

[Lord Testosticles]

Ahh, that's where I went wrong. I used all 2 input AND gates and there were like 12 of them.

[Notno]

It took me a loooong time to understand what this level is asking for. Being unable to see any tests but the first couple made it even harder.

[Notno]

I LOVE this game, and I look forward to major improvements in instructions and UI

[Nephyst]

I only needed 8 AND-2 gates. The hardest part of getting everything to fit. Curious if anyone else has a simpler solution to this that uses less space.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638934454

[Nephyst]

@Notno you can step through the tests by using the > in the top left.

[uNiels 💗]

Originally posted by Nephyst:

I only needed 8 AND-2 gates. The hardest part of getting everything to fit. Curious if anyone else has a simpler solution to this that uses less space.

Don't forget to count the demuxes (worth 1 NAND gate each) and the switches (worth 16 NAND gates each), though. Switches are costly, so I solved the level entirely without them. Just 8 three-input AND gates and 2 inverters.

[Nephyst]

What do you mean by costly? I haven't seen the game mention anything about the circuit cost.

[nyda]

Originally posted by Nephyst:

What do you mean by costly? I haven't seen the game mention anything about the circuit cost.

It's unlocked later in the game. Shows NAND cost and delay on individual components and for each stage/level.

[pickupsticks]

I wonder just how small a footprint is possible, without making things look ugly :)

I'll probably go and tinker with this a bit more, some time when I'm in the right mood.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2623484424

[Doom]

I ended up with this, however, it can be likely simplified further.

https://i.ibb.co/pXWBvLd/image.png

Don't like wiring multiple outputs to the same line.

[Stoopha]

I wish there was some sort of clock you could 'tick', to see time based changes; since figuring out what is supposed to happen on a delay line ( and therefore any memory unit) is unclear to test.

I appreciate there is, but this only does step-thru on the delay line, on higher levels it just runs tests and you cannot see the flow thru.