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| == Roadmap ==
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| | <onlyinclude>'''Factorio''' is a game in which you build and maintain factories. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. |
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| There is an [[Roadmap|own article about that]].
| | In the beginning you will find yourself chopping trees, mining ores and crafting mechanical arms and transport belts by hand, but in short time you can become an industrial powerhouse, with huge solar fields, oil refining and cracking, manufacture and deployment of construction and logistic robots, all for your resource needs. However this heavy exploitation of the planet's resources does not sit nicely with the locals, so you will have to be prepared to defend yourself and your machine empire. |
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| == Sozializing ==
| | Join forces with other players in cooperative [[Multiplayer]], create huge factories, collaborate and delegate tasks between you and your friends. |
| | <includeonly>'''[[Factorio:About|... read more ...]]'''</includeonly></onlyinclude> |
| | Add mods to increase your enjoyment, from small tweak and helper mods to complete game overhauls, Factorio's ground-up Modding support has allowed content creators from around the world to design interesting and innovative features. While the core gameplay is in the form of the freeplay scenario, there are a range of interesting challenges in the form of the Scenario pack, available as free DLC. If you don't find any maps or scenarios you enjoy, you can create your own with the in-game Map Editor, place down entities, enemies, and terrain in any way you like, and even add your own custom script to make for interesting gameplay. |
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| * [http://ask.fm/FactorioGame Ask.fm]. Very informative.
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| * [https://www.facebook.com/Factorio Factorio on Facebook]. Sometimes nice new pictures here.
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| == History == | | == Roadmap == |
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| === July 29, 2013: [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1120 Developer Interview] ===
| | The [[Roadmap]] is a description of the future goals for Factorio's development. One may consult it to discover what the developers of Factorio have in store for the game. |
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| Interview from Myratax.
| | Look at [http://www.factorio.com/blog The official blog]; Factorio Friday Facts (FFFs) have become a weekly feature and provide good information about the near future of the game. |
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| English video:
| | == Stats == |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuatfFHT9L0
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| German video:
| | * Definition: Factorio is a sci-fi sandbox game. |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lywJUWYM3Yw
| | * First public release date: Mid 2012 |
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| | == History == |
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| On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Myratax <mail@myratax.de> wrote:
| | * April 1, 2014: [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3026 Interview of Michal Kovarik in CanardPC] |
| > Hello Tomas,
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| > There are some questions that are already covered in some posts on the forum
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| > but since not all the viewers will know your forum I ask them anyways.
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| > If you have anything that I should not mention in the video please mark it
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| > in red or something. So here we go:
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| > 1. First things first, please introduce yourself to us.
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| > 2. How big is the Factorio team, where did you meet and how long have you
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| > been working on the game now?
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| > 3. Where did the idea of Factorio come from?
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| I will answer the first three questions at once because they are
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| somehow related.
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| A friend of mine called Michal (kovarex on the forum) quit his job in the
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| spring of 2012 to start working on Factorio. He has been an avid gamer
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| and had a lot of ideas for the game. Many of those are now present in
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| Factorio. I joined him in the summer of 2012. We are both in our late
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| twenties, with reasonable programming experience. We share a flat in
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| Prague which is now our "office" as well. We both do programming for
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| most of the time, but share other tasks as well (discussing the game
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| design, game propagation, interacting with the community, managing the
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| freelancers etc.)
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| The graphics is done by Albert. An artist from Barcelona whom kovarex
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| found via an advert on some artist forum. He even comes to Prague now
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| and then to live and work with us. We have become good friends with
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| him and plan to visit him at Mallorca, where he lives now.
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| Recently we have been joined by Kuba (blue cube on the forum) our
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| former school mate. He also does programming. So the core team is 3
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| programmers and 1 artist.
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| There are other people who help us now and then. Namely some of
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| our friends, the player on our forum, etc. Big thanks to all of them.
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| A lot of work on the game has been done by the freelancers as well -
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| music, concept art,
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| current character animations, etc.
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| > 4. What are you currently working on?
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| We make feature releases (more or less) once a month. At the moment we
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| are finishing the 0.6.x release. It should be out by the end of the
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| week. There will be for instance game speed optimizations, the map of
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| the world and some new (undisclosed:D) content.
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| > 5. You recently delayed the multiplayer mode. What was your reason behind
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| > that?
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| We made some estimates how much work would it be to make the
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| multiplayer. And it turned out to be at least 2 months for 2 people
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| full time (with still somewhat uncertain result). That is too much for us now.
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| Therefore we decided to focus on finishing the singleplayer experience
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| first and get back to
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| multiplayer later. We are still committed to building the multiplayer
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| however there are more important things to work on now (combat, extend
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| and improve main campaign, polishing, more content).
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| > 6. I am a peaceful player and my current "Let's Play" is on a map without
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| > enemys. Will there be a way in the future to obtain alien artifacts if you
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| > play peaceful?
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| Probably not. The alien artifacts are sort of a reward for players
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| scouting the map and fighting with the enemies. On the other hand not
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| having the alien artifacts will not be a "blocker" for players who
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| don't like to fight (I am not a big fan of fighting either). The
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| artifacts will be used for late technology upgrades that are nice to
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| have, but not essential (faster logistic robots, more efficient
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| weapons, better modules). In
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| other words it will be possible to finish the game without fighting
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| (though it is not now because you need them to build the rocket
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| defense which ends the game).
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| Also we still consider adding the market that would allow you to trade
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| items that you don't have.
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| > 8. There are already a few mods out there for Factorio. How important is a
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| > good community and modding scene to you?
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| It is really important to us. The game has been designed to be
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| friendly for modders from the beginning. We try to make it as easy and
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| powerful to mod as possible so people can come up with new interesting
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| things. On top of that we actively communicate with the modders on
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| our forum to solve their problems and extend the scripting API for
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| their needs.
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| > 10. You already have a Steam Greenlight page in the concept section (link in
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| > the description), do you plan the release on other platforms like Desura or
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| > GoG.com?
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| At the moment the page on the steam is only a concept. Our plan is to
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| start a proper Greenlight campaign by the end of the summer. And of
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| course the goal would be to get greenlit and publish the game on Steam
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| in their Early Access section (at the moment they have other awesome
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| games in the process of creation like Kenshi, Gnomoria, Prison
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| Architect, KSP, etc.).
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| AFAIK the GoG.com is only for finished games (I could be wrong). And I
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| don't know how "Indie friendly" they are. When it comes to Desura I
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| heard that the exposure there is not big (also could be wrong). For
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| these reasons our main goal is to get to Steam Early Access and see
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| what comes after that.
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| > 9. Do you plan to support Factorio after the 1.0 release with additional
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| > contend like for example "Don't Starve" ?
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| | * July 29, 2013: [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1120 Developer Interview] |
| > 7. What can we expect with version 1.0?
| | ** English video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuatfFHT9L0 |
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| | **German video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lywJUWYM3Yw |
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| > 12. Of course the last question has to be "What is the planed release date
| | * February 5, 2013: [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125195010 Steam greenlight campaign] |
| > for 1.0?"
| | ** Released on steam Early access on 25 Febuary 2016. Developers aim for a full release (ie. 1.0) in summer 2018. |
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| I have reordered and grouped these three questions because they are
| | === What is the game inspired by? === |
| tightly related.
| | * [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ Dwarf Fortress], |
| | | * Transport Tycoon-like games, especially [http://www.openttd.org/en/ OpenTTD], |
| We decided to take a "continuous development" approach to Factorio in
| | * Minecraft (especially the BuildCraft mod) |
| a similar fashion many games do nowadays (like those mentioned above
| | * Civilization series |
| related to Steam Early Access or what Minecraft did). We will update
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| the game as long as there is interest in it. And as long as it will
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| cover the development costs:) We might end up being in alpha for a
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| while (which I think is not a bad thing).
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| We don't have a definitive specs or release date for 1.0 (sorry:)). We
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| have a plan for more or less two months ahead and keep updating it
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| based also on the feedback from the community. But to get more
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| specific, Factorio will be called beta when there is at least
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| following: meaningful combat, extended main campaign, more content
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| (new energy sources, at least one new industry and new resources),
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| extended scenario pack, overall polishing (both logic and graphics). I
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| suppose we can start thinking about having 1.0 when there is the
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| multiplayer.
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| > 11. Is there anything else you would like to mention?
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| Working on Factorio has been a great experience for us. There has been
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| a lot of downsides but also a lot of upsides. The indiegogo campaign
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| we did in the February has been probably the most intensive month of
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| our lives. We would like to thank to all the people who helped us
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| during our work on this project. This includes our friends, people on
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| the forum or youtubers (like you :)) who help us to propagate the
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| game.
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| > Thank you for your time
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| Thank you for doing this interview.
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| > So these are my questions. As i said, I plan on making a german and english
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| > version of the video, as always with links in the description ect.
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| > As soon as I have completed it, I will send you a link to the english video
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| > before I make it public, so you can tell me if you want to have something
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| > changed.
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| I hope some of the answers are not too long. Feel free to reorganize
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| or rephrase them when you feel necessary. Also if there is something
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| missing then just let me know.
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| Looking forward to the interview:)
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| > Best regards
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| > Myratax
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| Regards
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| Tomas
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| === February 5, 2013: [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125195010 Steam greenlight campaign] ===
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| * http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125195010
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| ** Especially this [http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/125195010/846958001178787026/ discussion] about going steam greenlight.
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| === [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/factorio Indiegogo-Campaign] ===
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| * http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/factorio
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| === From [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122388.0 Dwarf Fortress forum] ===
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| We put that into the wiki, because it can be seen as a kind of "historical document" and a prove, that no essential point of the original vision has been lost.
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| Because it is over a yer since then, we added some comment, see down!
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| :Factorio - Factory building game « on: February 01, 2013, 12:46:49 am »
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| :'''What do I do in the game ?
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| :You will be in charge of a character that is building a factory from scratch. You will be mining resources, automating production, managing energy sources, designing the flow of items in your factory, researching technologies and defending from hostile creatures.
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| :'''What is the game inspired by ? [*]
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| :We drew a lot of inspiration from Transport Tycoon-like games, Civilization and Minecraft.
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| :'''Why should I care ?
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| :This game is made by geeks for geeks. The core of the game is building things. You can create huge almost self sufficient factories. There are machines crafting other machines. All the stuff is travelling on transport belts. There are simple means of "programming" the robotic arms that move things around. You also have little logistic robots that transport things among designated containers. The ultimate goal of course is to have self replicating factories:)
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| :'''When & where can I get it ?
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| :Public demo is available at http://www.factorio.com (win, osx, ubuntu linux). Go and try it now.
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| :The game successfully finished crowdfunding campaign (March 2013). The alpha version of the game can bought on our web page.
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| :'''What is the current state of the game? [*]
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| :We plan to start greenlight campaign in the start of december 2013, we are doing all the preparations needed for this to happen. (New trailer, consistent graphics, bugfree gameplay).
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| :The current version is alpha, but we try to fix all the reported bugs, so the stable releases (latest is 0.7.5) are quite stable.
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| :We put some effort to make the game moddable from the start, so you are can already choose from several mods extending different parts of the game. The modding support is made in a way that mod incompatibility isn't an issue.
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| :'''I want to know more [*]
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| :Check our website for trailer, screenshots, demo download and more information in general.
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| :« Last Edit: November 03, 2013, 12:36:32 pm by kovarex » Logged
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| ==== Comments ==== | |
| ; What is the game inspired by ?
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| : From some threads in off-topic board: we add to the above list a number of games like
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| * [http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ Dwarf fortress], | |
| * from transport tycoon like games especially [http://www.openttd.org/en/ OpenTTD], | |
| * from minecraft especially the built craft mod | |
| * Civilization | |
| * SpaceChem | | * SpaceChem |
| * Creeper world 3 | | * Creeper World 3 |
| * Terraria | | * Terraria |
| * Starbound | | * Starbound |
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| * DayZ | | * DayZ |
| * FTL | | * FTL |
| * Unclaimed World. | | * Unclaimed World |
| * Into Space (shortly mentioned that the game will include elements from there) | | * Into Space (shortly mentioned that the game will include elements from there) |
| * (To be continued...) | | * Dig-N-Rig |
| ;Current state
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| : See [[Roadmap]] for more or less actual current state.
| | == See also == |
| ; I want to know more
| | * [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/factorio Indiegogo-Campaign] |
| : look especially into the [http://www.factorio.com/blog blog]; the Factorio Friday Facts (FFFs) have become a weekly happening and provide good information about the near future of the game.
| | Raised €21,626, started 31 January 2013, finished on 3 March 2013. |
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| | * [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122388.0 Dwarf Fortress forum] |
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| | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorio Wikipedia page for Factorio] |
