ISA Design

Hey everyone! So as I promised, here are some screenshots from the game. I didn't have as much time as I anticipated, but I was able to finish most of the stuff that I intended.

On this panel you can start designing new chips and will be able to browse around the chips that you've designed, in the middle, where there is nothing right now, will be informations and a generated die shot.

This is where the fun begins. This is the first ISA design panel. As you can see you have control over the basic design choices behind making a new ISA. The game lets you design 3 different types of ISA for CPUs, CISC, RISC, VLIW. I do not intend to introduce more into the game, at least for now.

This is the panel where you can select ISAs that you've already designed, or start designing a new one (after pressing the new ISA you'll get to the previously shown panel).

After selecting which ISA you want to use for the new chips you've started designing, you get to the second ISA panel. On this panel you can select between the different versions of the ISA you choose, or design a new version. There is a basic info panel, that shows you the basic information of the selected version. Under that you can change how other companies (or other non-company entities) can get access to the selected ISA version. If you set your ISA to Contracts only, you can set up each version differently, but you will be also able to set up a whole ISA licensing model, add multiple tiers, and set up which tier gives access to which versions. On this panel you'll also be able to select which extensions you want to utilize, or add new extensions. On the currently empty Customisation window you'll be able to select an icon and colors for the ISA.

Remember, the project is in a very early stage, so things can (and will) change a lot.

Thats it for this time, if you have any question feel free to ask under this post.