This has to be the best thing ever! Thank you so much for making this awesome little simulator! I have always been curious about circuitry and electronics at their basic level, and playing with this has been very exciting for me. I wish it started out with only the basic on/off switch, such as you demonstrated with paperclips, so that way you can make even the and/not chips from scratch. I made an 8-bit ALU after watching your first video. Would that be useful IRL? Or would you actually just stack up smaller ALUs to get more bits? Anyway, you know what you have to do next, right?
A.) You have to add zooming and panning in the layout area and adjustable fixed position of the input/output bars so the user can have all the space they need to make infinitely complex chip boards, and you have to add a series of objectives and challenges, to get a clueless player like myself to start thinking productively about the possibilities and what needs to be done to make great things happen.
B.) You should make a new survival-crafting RPG in which the player survives by crafting chips and circuit boards. Make it an intricate, nice-looking 3D game in which the player has to plan out the logic of their circuits, create the plastic board to assemble it on, and then manually place the chips and wires how they need to be. Maybe the character is a robot with a dead human friend, and it is trying to repair the human by replacing their brain with a computer. The robot assumes it doesn't work because the circuits simply aren't adequate to reactivate the human's body so it keeps making the circuits infinitely better. Wouldn't that be a fun game? That'd be an awesome game!
Ooooooh and I only just now noticed the 'digital logic sim 2' post. Never mind everything I said, I have to go play that one.