Automation and Factory Builder Games

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A community surrounding automation and factory games. Think Factorio or Satisfactory.

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Modulus, a factory automation game with block focused gameplay and a unique visual style, releases demo on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The trailer is actually really good. Personally, I'm hooked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seems very cool indeed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going to post this here today, you beat me to it! Thanks for posting here :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Saw this on my daily Tycoon game update session, thought it would be a good fit for this community. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Trying the demo to see if this stays on my wishlist or gets unceremoniously booted.

Graphics appeal in a… "sciencey" way I guess? I like them, but I'm not sure how to describe what about them is tickling my brain in the right way.

Tutorial:

Welcome Unit Gr0_P1uS. Let's run a test protocol on your sensors. Try adjusting your camera:

(and then it lists camera controls for me)

I guess I'm a computer lol. Oddly charmed by this.

I made a big mistake already by placing things in the wrong rotation, and wasn't sure how to remove them or rotate them again, and the game sure did not tell me, so I just started the tutorial all over.

Controls say I can use T to mirror when I'm putting stuff down. My T key is functioning but T does not seem to actually do anything. Maybe that's for things I unlock later? ~~Will report it if I go through the whole demo and it still appears to do nothing.~~ It works on the Harvester Pad, so maybe the other things were just symmetrical enough for me to not notice anything.

This might just be a "me and my small display and the fact most people don't actively prefer smaller screens to bigger ones" problem but tutorial text is great and legible normally, but after completing a tutorial the colored text shows up sooooo badly. Went and reported that.

Some of the tutorial had me a bit confused for a few seconds, not sure what to do, but I figured it out. But overall I feel too stupid for video game tutorials nowadays, so YMMV.

After the tutorial is a little picture of tubes with "GOOD SPAGHETTI" written in it.

The GNN doesn't appreciate inefficient design, don't make a mess.

Definitely a playful jab at spaghetti factories, appreciated. Although the picture is a bit confusing to me, my assumption is that because "GOOD" and "SPAGHETTI" are separated there would be an example of good organization near GOOD and bad near SPAGHETTI, and instead it's just tubes with the phrase GOOD SPAGHETTI.

Game seems fascinating and fun enough (especially configuring/entering the Cutter module!) for me to excuse the problems I did have, but I am not too good at describing them. It stays on my wishlist!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good spaghetti is definitely a unique gameplay message. 😆