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24 alternatives to I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game

Inspired by games like Turing Complete/Virtual Circuit Board/Logic World, I tried to make a mix of aseprite and wiredworld/wired-logic, the idea being the user can build a digital circuit using a "fullstack" pixelart creation workflow. The circuit is just an image. The primitives are (i) connected wires which have undefined, 0 or 1 state during simulation (displayed brighter or darker in function of the state) and (ii) NANDs, which are little pixel triangles. During simulation the user can interact with any wire by clicking on it, toggling its state, which is cool for messing…

This digital circuit drawing and simulation game lets users build circuits using pixel art, combining the creative workflow of drawing tools with logic simulation. Circuits are constructed from connected wires and NAND… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang. It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wired Logic - a pixel based logic simulator. Contribute to martinkirsche/wired-logic development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…

    2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Building a 10BASE-T Ethernet transceiver (receiver and transmitter) with discrete logic chips

    2024 · qdiv.dev · its alternatives →

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    Explore Digital circuits online with CircuitVerse. With our easy to use simulator interface, you will be building circuits in no time.

    2018 · circuitverse.org · its alternatives →

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    Create, simulate, and collaborate on digital circuits

    2025 · scratchboard.io · its alternatives →

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    This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…

    2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →

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    An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.

    2018 · nandgame.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

    2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →

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    I have been dreaming of creating things (arts, games, etc.), but that wouldn't be possible because I can hardly draw anything. But now with Stable Diffusion everything is hopeful again, so I further collected the AI magics that I considered necessary in creation activities, and integrated them into an Infinite draw board (like Figma). Hope that I can hear from you, any advice or suggestions will be really appreciated!

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built ChipBuilder to make computer architecture more approachable through interactive puzzles. You start with basic logic gates like AND, OR, and NOT, then gradually combine them into adders, multiplexers, memory, an ALU, and eventually a complete CPU. Once you've built the hardware, you can write assembly programs that run on the processor you created. The game is inspired by courses like Nand2Tetris, but everything runs directly in the browser with a visual circuit editor, simulations, and progressively harder challenges.

    Jul 2026 · select.supply · its alternatives →

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    2019 · adventuresinlogicland.com · its alternatives →

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    AI magics meet Infinite draw board

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I am a Dutch high school student and last year I had to do a large project of my own choice. Together with two other guys I decided to do a project about digital logic. We had an ambitious plan: building an 8-bits computer. At that time I started learning programming and I already knew some HTML and CSS. So we decided to not build a physical computer, but one running in a self-built simulator. I was going to build the simulator, the other guys took care of the computer. I was hard, our school hadn't taught us anything about computers and programming so we had to learn everything ourselves.…

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    A modern arcade cabinet

    2015 · polycade.com · its alternatives →

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    A limited edition notebook by Baron Fig + Codecademy

    2018 · baronfig.com · its alternatives →

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    A step count widget encouraging movement on every screen

    2025 · crazylazy.xyz · its alternatives →

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    I received a ticket from my product manager (my wife) to add a new feature for our largest customer (my kindergartner). The requirements doc included a worksheet from school that looked like this. I took that exact screenshot (blurriness, bad lighting, scribbles, and all) and…

    2025 · mattsayar.com · its alternatives →

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    Games for Designers

    2015 · graphism.fr · its alternatives →

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    A digital logic simulation written in C. Contribute to rzscheck/logic development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Instantly Create Digital Logic Circuits with AI

    2025 · circuitai.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    A little game I made to show off an old project. The functionality of the CPU is derived entirely from simulated logic gates. All the operations and control flow are based on the underlying properties of the logic gates, and changing their operation leads to corresponding changes in function. The original game code is all python and it runs in the browser using wasm/pyodide. Not very mobile friendly

    2024 · loreley.one · its alternatives →

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    Splice▲60

    An experimental and artistic puzzler

    2015 · cipherprime.com · its alternatives →

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    Powerful online circuit simulator and schematic editor. Easy to learn.

    2012 · circuitlab.com · its alternatives →

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