Comments on: Chipwits

By: Doug Sharp

Doug Sharp — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:23:04 +0000

I am dropping a new build of ChipWits tonight and starting a new weekly contest. Love to see you over there.

Unfortunately there is still a bug in the Mac version caused by MDM Zinc: http://www.mdmforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20088
As you can see I am trying to work with them to get the Mac version stable. It launches now but crashes randomly.

Thanks for your continued patience with ChipWits. My health continues to be rough so I am intermittent in my programming.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:47:52 +0000

Hi again, everybody!

The ChipWits site (http://www.ChipWits.com) has just added a neat forum area! And it even includes a sub-forum to talk about my (finished) port of the original ChipWits :)

By: Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:41:45 +0000

Hey all.

“Coming soon” hasn’t been soon enough! Kudos to all of you who have kept CW alive. Doug and I are looking forward to an incredible evolution in ChipWits. Stay in touch with us, play alot, share your experiences, and eat lots of pie.

By: Doug Sharp

Doug Sharp — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:10:03 +0000

Our ChipWit Corporation lawyers are going to sue Klaus into the poorhouse. ;^)

We are making the ChipWit file format an open standard and Klaus and I just exchanged emails about making his version read and write ChipWit files.

We are going to be charging the princely sum of $14.95 for our game - good for all upgrades (and there will be many). We will start selling serial #’s this week - so please support the ChipWits project.

I want to announce our first weekly ChipWits.com contest - best average on a series of 20 missions in Greedville. A stylish ChipWits t-shirt goes to the winner, who will be enshrined in the ChipWits.com Eternal Hall of Pie as the 1st winner. Help us playtest!

I apologize for the fact that we are lagging on a Mac downloadable version, but you can play online (it’s written in Flash) and send in screenshot of your ChipWit’s code.

Today is also the 1st day that this thread is not the #1 hit when you google ChipWits. Many thanks to Richard and the ChipWits-seekers who have made this a beacon for IBOLheads everywhere.

IFSEE COFFEE-> PICKUP,

Doug

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:58:38 +0000

Hi Janus!

Those are definitively different versions.
Mine is simply a Windows (Linux? Mac?) port of the original game. Doug, however, is creating the New And Improved version :)

By: Janus

Janus — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:08:10 +0000

In addition to “say”, consider “think” — which would show a thought balloon. There is a good example of this in Scratch (another tile-based visual programming environment).

http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/

By: Janus

Janus — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:02:34 +0000

Doug and Klaus

Will you be creating separate versions of Chipwits or are you working on the same one?

By: Doug Sharp

Doug Sharp — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:20:34 +0000

Thanks, Richard,

We are doing our best to remain true to our original game and are happy with initial old fan reaction.

We will “soon” set up a forum on chipwits.com . We’ll have a subforum for fans of the original.

Feel free to post anything you want here. I’ll link to this thread from chipwits.com .

The fact that this thread still remains the #1 google hit for ChipWits is fascinating. It’s amazing how finding this thread over the years has brought a lot of old fans together and reinforced the thread’s position.

Thanks again,

Doug (debugging away - IFSEE BUG->ZAP)

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:03:56 +0000

Doug et al, I’m delighted you’re back and that there is focus on Chipwits. I’m also willing and happy to post news of chipwits updates in new posts on this site: screen shots, etc. Or, we can let ChipWits live in this single thread which, because of it’s age has decent page rank. Whatever works best for you guys is fine by me. Contrats on the work you’re doing and may you have the same kind of loyal following you had back in 1985.

By: Doug Sharp

Doug Sharp — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:24:11 +0000

Yep, we’re back. Mike Johnston and I have finally gotten off our tushes and are reviving ChipWits.

I’d like to thank Richard and the ChipWit fans who built this thread to the #1 google hit for ChipWits.

Klaus is part of the playtesting team and I ask all of you to join us.

I don’t have a playable build right now, but will have one soon.

I wrote it in Flash so it will run on Mac, Win, and Linux. I am using a package called Zinc to let me read and write chipwit files, so I have to test it on each machine. And because I am too broke to own a Mac right now I will be leading with the Windows version.

We’ll have a forum up on chipwits.com RSN.

And do please take a look at my blog - doctordroog.wordpress.com . I just posted a screenshot of the new ChipWits.

We aren’t going to be too loud about ChipWits until it is much more stable. Until then we will lead a quiet beta-test with people who find their way to us.

Please join us!

Doug Sharp - IFSEE PIE->PICKUP