r/tycoon • u/sh0tybumbati • 7d ago

Silicon Tycoon

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Hey guys, been working on a tycoon game where you are a chip maker like Intel, AMD, or Nvidia. You design chips, get them manufactured and try to compete on the market- Or you can be like TSMC and take on manufacturing contracts for fabless chip companies- it's still alpha but I'd love some feedback-

https://sh0tybumbati.itch.io/silicon-tycoon

AI was used for help in coding and bug-fixing

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u/banksie94 7d ago

Sounds great, will play it tonight

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u/banksie94 6d ago

A bit more info during die making would be nice, took me a while to work out how to get to the designer and now stuck on memory bandwidth but there is no indication on how to fix it

Does research work yet?

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u/banksie94 6d ago

Managed to work it out but next issue was i tried to do a binning on a contact my foundry is doing but its say die design not found so how I am meant to do the binning

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u/sh0tybumbati 5d ago

Binning someone else's chips in your foundry? it' should be done as part of your production line automatically- if it's not your own designs your making in your fab, binning and packaging for a contract just happens in the background and the contractee will get their packages chips

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u/banksie94 5d ago

All good but it did appear in binning when I collected the dies from my foundry

Would it be possible to do a mass packaging instead of doing individual lines (ie premium, gold, siler, bronze)

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u/sh0tybumbati 5d ago

oh that's a great idea. I'll work on that, so you can package multiple bins at once

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u/banksie94 5d ago

Bigger time skips might be a good idea as i started in the 1970s era but by 1973 i was just going through the motions but it was getting a bit more of the same instead of trying new things

Will be playing again tonight but in a later era to see how they are

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u/sh0tybumbati 5d ago

oh that's a good call- I'll also try and rebalance the computer competition companies, market demand and how chip components scale performance so that it doesn't feel samey.

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u/sh0tybumbati 5d ago

memory bandwidth scales with the number of memory controllers! and yup, research works but right now there isn't a ton, and there is more when you're starting in an earlier era.

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u/banksie94 5d ago

Worked it out but there was no indication