Sub-Surface Simon

Curse my procrastinative tendencies! So you want a tiny game, eh? How small can it be? Any sane designer would tell you that your design can be as small as the chip package it comes in. This is not true! An IC is usually just one tiny square cut from a silicon wafer. Depending on the chip package used (and whether or not it has thermal properties you care about), most of a package is just stamped metal pieces, which are the leads of the component, and excess plastic, which can be milled away to make room for more components. If surface mount is mounting components on the surface, then sub-surface mount is mounting them BELOW the surface. Most of the time when people say "I fit a game into one chip" this is NOT what they mean. Made for the 2024 Tiny Games Contest and for my own amusement.