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Steam News27 December 20214y ago

Introducing the Delay Buffer

A new idea was suggested which was just too good not to adopt. Instead of having the 1 bit memory be the basis for all memory, it is now a new delay buffer component.

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addedA new idea was suggested which was just too good not to adopt. Instead of having the 1 bit memory be the basis for all memory, it is now a new delay buffer component. All the delay buffer does is take an input and output it the next tick.
added2 new early game levels were added to introduce the concept.

A new idea was suggested which was just too good not to adopt. Instead of having the 1 bit memory be the basis for all memory, it is now a new delay buffer component. All the delay buffer does is take an input and output it the next tick.

First of all, this is a good candidate for the simplest possible memory component, which is where we should start. Secondly, it lets the game introduce memory and related concepts in a more intuitive way. And lastly, it makes pipelining architectures easier and score optimizing more interesting.

2 new early game levels were added to introduce the concept.

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