Chips is a freeware game where you are an electronics professor with the aim to build, as fast as possible, boards from four kinds of chips. And from the boards to create computer.
In the "Computer Lab" with the Joystick or the Arrow buttons, you guide the professor and push the chips. Eight joined chips will make a board. Four boards together will build a computer (Motherboard, Graphic board, Sound board and Disc controller).
If chip or board hits the professor it will kill him and the game is over. So be carefull and think before pushing!
The boards from different brands, joined together will build a computer. The star of the game is the professor, who can be controlled with the use of joystick or the arrow keys on the keyboard. When he pushes the chips, he have to be extra careful, because if a chip or board have nothing else to stop it, it will turn back and hit the professor.
On the other hand, if four different chips are next to each other in a square, they are also not possible to push and the professor can not go further. If the professor is hit by a chip or a board, the game is over and he have to start over, but the chips will be placed at different locations then.
During game play, the music can be turned on or off with the press of the "M" key. If the player wants to give up or stucks in a bad position, he can exit the game with the press of the "Esc" key.
The is also limited time to be taken into consideration. If the computer is build faster, the player is rewarded more points to his score. The top five results are stored as records in the highscores table of the game. These top scores can be challenged at later time.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Game rewritten for SDL library.
· Added animation of the character.
· Miscellaneous bugfixes and optimizations.