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-root wrote:Isn't factorio based heavily on spacechem?

I thought that there were a couple of games that have kinda evolved from spacechem as the original. minecraft being the most notable.

I think the proof is in the game. If it has its own personality and atmosphere, it will be fine. If the goal is to reach rocket defense though, i daresay there will be people that grab their pitchforks and go all medieval on their ass. And that's from both sides.

I thought that there were a couple of games that have kinda evolved from spacechem as the original. minecraft being the most notable.

MF- wrote:

I thought that there were a couple of games that have kinda evolved from spacechem as the original. minecraft being the most notable.

Actually, that was another game by Zach Barth (or how the guy is called): http://www.zachtronics.com/infiniminer/

xnmo wrote:Spacechem? In 3D? It's already complicated enough in 2D

• Level objective driven. As in given inputs of items A and B make n many items of X and Y.
• No recipes, just the use of more fundamental operations like cutting or pressing where if you do it in the wrong place/order you get utterly useless junk that would fail the level for you if you tried to use it towards your objective.
• Separated building and running modes without a player character like in the [ur=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoWxgPlIFGEl] tight spot scenario.[/url]
• Constrained spaces.
• Resources will be given to you instead of needing to run off and find them.
• More complex builds will need state machines or counting mechanisms to function properly.
• Your level result will be compared to everyone else's and shown on a histogram.

Drury wrote: although you might want to have a degree in engineering before playing.

Marbles wrote:What about Electrical Engineering

xnmo wrote: how can the player character put together advanced circuits in seconds (OK, maybe minutes or hours depending on how you convert real time to game time) while at the same time run full speed from aliens while throwing grenades and blasting them apart without even breaking a sweat. He can also do this while carrying dozens of cars, or hundreds of assembling machines far bigger than he is, and not be encumbered by them at all.

pyrolytic_tungsten wrote: Extrapolating from Spacechem I would expect :

• Separated building and running modes without a player character like in the [ur=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoWxgPlIFGEl] tight spot scenario.[/url]
• Resources will be given to you instead of needing to run off and find them.

It should be a good game but I wish they put up some video.

Are you working with anyone else on the game?

ZACH: Absolutely! The core team is seven people, with a few talented freelancers helping out as well.

What technology is being used for Infinifactory?

ZACH: Unlike our previous titles, Infinifactory is built using Unity instead of a custom engine, which should make it even easier to port the game to new platforms. Everything else, including our next-generation block engine, was built from scratch.

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You compare Infinifactory to SpaceChem on the site. Do you think the game is leaning towards being more like SpaceChem or Infiniminer, or is it something completely new?

ZACH: When building the metagame for Infinifactory we essentially used everything good from SpaceChem as our starting point. We've brought back discrete puzzles, histograms, upload to YouTube, custom puzzles, and sandbox construction. However, we've also improved some things along the way, like organizing the puzzles so that you're less likely to get stuck and making sure that puzzles with novel mechanics are properly explained (something that made SpaceChem's boss puzzles particularly unfriendly).

When it comes to the actual gameplay, though, it's a totally different kind of game. The puzzle mechanics are very different, being descended from Manufactoid, and are much more spatial and physical than SpaceChem was. There's also the fact that it's 3D and first-person, which adds to the puzzle mechanics and allows us to do exciting things to tell a story with immersion, level construction, and audio logs. It's been very interesting to work on something that's both so familiar and so new for us at the same time.