fab24hr · About and press kit
A day in the life of a fab engineer
A 3D game you play in the browser: spend one day as an engineer in a chip fab, from a phone call in the middle of the night all the way to clocking out. You don't need to know anything about chips: tap any jargon for a plain explanation.
01Late night · 02:47
Your room is pitch dark and your phone is buzzing somewhere by the bed. Find it and pick up: the night shift says the etch tool ETCH-03 is down with an urgent batch of wafers stuck inside, and the whole line is waiting for you to give them a time.
02Before the fab
Before you go into the cleanroom, you cover up from head to toe: hood, face mask, coverall, boot covers, gloves. You even get to pick the color: Standard White, Visitor Blue, Rookie Yellow, Equipment Purple or Night-Shift Gray.
03Morning · 09:00
The wet clean tool next to you, WET-02, jumps from green to red and the alarm keeps going. Press reset and let it finish, or stop and leave the wafers where they are until someone takes a look? Two buttons, same size, no right answer. Your choice costs time and ends up on your clock-out card.
04Morning · 11:21
You are carrying test wafers to the tool, you trip, and down you go. The pieces scatter across the floor and stay there. Wafers are thin and expensive: once one breaks, it stays broken.
05Afternoon · 13:40
An earthquake alert pops up on your phone. Three seconds later, the floor starts to shake. Any shift can throw something at you: an earthquake, a voltage dip, the dispatch system going offline, the overhead transport getting stuck, a torn glove. It is different every time.
06Evening · clocking out
Your official clock-out time is 17:30. When do you actually make it out the door? Every shift ends with a recap card: this shift's overtime, your running total and the titles you earned. Save it as an image and share it.
Switch roles
Same fab, same day, someone else's shoes. The day has four shifts — late night, morning, afternoon and evening — and the one you get follows the time you open the site.
PEProcess engineer
Looks after one etch tool, ETCH-03, and gets the first call when it breaks.
Play as the process engineer →MFGManufacturing
Dispatches the wafers and keeps them moving to the next step; first to see a tool light up.
Play as Manufacturing →EEEquipment engineer
Keeps the tools' hardware running: judges a breakdown from photos at night and fixes the tool.
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fab24hr: it's 02:47 and your phone is ringing. A free 3D browser game about one day as a chip fab engineer.
fab24hr is a free 3D game that runs in the browser, phones included, no install: spend a day as an engineer in a chip fab, from a phone call at 02:47 to clocking out. No chip knowledge needed; tap any jargon for a plain explanation. fab24hr.com
02:47. Your phone rings: a tool is down and the whole line is waiting for you to give them a time. fab24hr (a day in the life of a fab engineer) is a free 3D game that runs in any browser, phones included, with no install. Play as the process engineer, Manufacturing or the equipment engineer across four shifts (late night, morning, afternoon and evening): put on a cleanroom suit, decide what to do when a tool turns red, drop a wafer, ride out an earthquake. Every choice costs time, and the clock-out card adds up your overtime. No chip knowledge needed: tap any jargon for a plain explanation. Everything in it is fictional. In Traditional Chinese and English. fab24hr.com
fab24hr：凌晨 02:47，手機響了。免安裝的 3D 小遊戲，當一天晶圓廠工程師。
fab24hr 是免費、免安裝、手機就能玩的 3D 小遊戲：當一天晶圓廠工程師，從凌晨 02:47 的電話撐到下班。不用懂半導體，行話點一下就有白話解釋。fab24hr.com
凌晨 02:47，手機響了：機台當機，整條線都在等你給一個時間。fab24hr（半導體晶圓廠打工人的一天）是一款免費、免安裝、手機就能玩的 3D 小遊戲。你可以當製程工程師、製造部或設備工程師，一天分成深夜、早、午、晚四個班，會遇到換無塵衣、機台紅燈、晶圓摔碎、地震之類的意外，每個選擇都會算進你幾點下班。不用懂半導體，遊戲裡的行話點一下就有白話解釋。內容全部虛構，有繁體中文與英文版。fab24hr.com
The author is on Threads: @mrclty. If you like the game, you can buy the author a coffee.
