Am I missing something obvious? I can't seem to find more gold coins. Nothing I've made so far sells for anything other than copper and silver.

Really great work, so simple yet so engaging.

I simply loved it, awesome game, I don't think I'll go get the insanity research cause I already destroyed a lot of my machines to speed the process at the end lmao, but maybe one day I'll "redo it" to get insanity, I don't know...

Well it's kinda adictive I guess, but I loved it haha

wait version for Linux

Hello, I have a problem on the browser version, I can't recalibrate the view and I end up with a very very small window : could you please help, also is there any possibility to have a save on the browser version, I play on Mac and can't download the game. But thanks to the browser version I can. And had to restart 6 or 7 times already (the size of the window stayed the same after the 3rd restart)

I'm kinda stuck right now, idk what I missed.

I mean, my factory is pretty much stalled 'cause I don't know how to get the mana crystals for my first Disharmonizer... 😞
Any help?

just started.
q: how far in do i need to get to be able to reorganize and delete stuff in my factory?

Idea. (partially inspired by: PainBaller's comment)
To make it easier to move multiple connections at the same time

On the (left?) side of the screen, there cold be temporary connection points (like 10+ points? up-gradable?), like the Big Merger/Splitters, where you could hook up several connections to (with some kind of marker icon, or a hover-preview of the machine it is connected to?), then you can move to the other side of the map, or wherever, and un-hook those connections to grab the connection-thread so you can attach it to the actual destination.

In that way, you can bring over maybe 10+ connections in one go, instead of making 10(x2) trips (back & forth) to do the same work.

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Maybe some kind of "multi line" connection (similar to "Oxygen Not Included"s "Automation Ribbon" that can carry multiple signals in the same wire), just so it is easier to organize a "main buss" of resources across the map, without it looking like a drugged spider has been puking webs all over the place.

PLEASE!!!
#1: Make it possible to rotate the machines!
At least the splitters & mergers!
It would also be nice if they could be mirrored, so you don't HAVE to make a production chain always go that ---> way, but you can make it go back & forth.

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#2: It would also be nice with a hot-bar or/and inventory for machines not in use.
To to remove clutter from the build-environment and easier placement of machines.

#3: It would also be nice if you could maybe shift-click on a connection, to PICK-UP the line that is connected, instead of starting a new line from that terminal.
This is helpful for long cross-map spanning connections that you just want to move to another storage or machine, without having to pan back & forth across the map just to change it.

Items inside the machine are destroyed when the machine is moved. Is this a preference or a bug?

so apparently resetting disables the right click function...

 I made an account just to comment on this game.

I curse you! I've spent HOURS and HOURS on this game!

I worked up to the phylactery, then back down, then back up to increase how fast I could get it.
I'm running 40 disharmonizers on air pumps full time. 30 go to gems 10 go purely to silica, the extra resources are all going to markets so hardly anything ever gets voided through abyssal doors.

I make one phylactery every 15 minutes, most of the waiting is silica powder and to solve this I need another 30-40 disharmonizers just for the powder which I will definitely do. 


Improvements I would like, mostly as endgame content:
-Blueprints as somebody said before (including connections)
-Mass move, I manually moved around SO MANY splitters/mergers (again including connections)
-Mass place/shift place so you don't have to go back and forth
-Pick up or delete machines
-Bigger splitter/mergers, with more ports, both in and out, this way more items can pass in a single tick (relevant) with big builds
-Overflow management, I made the thing where 1/128 of the items get sent to market until it is full but that takes up so much space and makes it really messy.
-Increase max zoom (zoom out)
-Selling price of items, once you have markets
-A way to move progress to windows version from browser. I went too far for my browser to handle before switching to windows.

Thanks for wasting my time <3 I haven't spent this much time on a game in a long time.

Selling price of every item in the game

Had to quit playing. The save system is bugged. I keep losing 15-20 minutes of progress whenever I load into the game. I kept hitting the save button 2-3 times but it doesn't matter.

I like it

After playing for a while I noticed a few big issues:

1. You need to rebuild and scale your factory a lot, but the game doesn’t provide you any tools to do it quick. The obvious solution would be blueprints, which would allow to copy and paste your designs. One way to implement it would be having inventory to store owned machines. This would also allow to deconstruct unused machines instead of having to move them somewhere.
2. You need to destroy excess resources, but you can’t set input/output priorities for mergeres/splitters. This leads to destroying either too much or not enough items most of the time.
3. Mergers and splitters don’t consume/spread items evenly for each of it’s 2 inputs/outputs. This leads to entire factory working unevenly and eventually it can stop working completely. (Edit: The issue is only with mergers. Splitters DO spread items evenly, but mergers DO NOT consume evenly. Currently mergers will only consume from a single source until it’s dry)

At this point of the game I have only 1 research left which is create Immortality to finish the game. Right now my factory stopped working because of 2nd and 3rd issues, so I would need to rebuild it again. I hope the dev fixes it and adds some QoL in next update.

THE FACTORY MUST GROW!

Great game, here's a productive comment of my experience of your game, along with some suggestions...

(For what it's worth, I'm a game developer too):

My Experience:

• I started playing on the HTML5 build, really liked the game, transferred my progress to the Windows version and had a great time all around. :)

What's good?

• Your game has a really solid gameplay loop. The progression is balanced and I really like how the prices of the machines have this upside-down U curve if you were to place them on a graph.
• The visuals are looking really clean. It's easy to differentiate the materials from their colors and the machines from their shapes.
• It's a really good practice to make a HTML5 build of your game. Hats off to you.

What's not so good?

• Some materials feel like they were added just to make the game longer and don't really have any use except for a single crafting recipe.
• The background is a bit bland. This is understandable because I believe its generated on the go. Maybe you can try adding some areas with color and procedurally generating it only when a new game is started. This way, the colored areas don't change while continuing your playthrough.
• The optimization needs some work. Here's what I found:
  • The framerate doesn't change when zooming or panning to emptier areas. This makes me think that the sprites are still loaded, even when the player is not looking at them.
  • Also, hovering over to the tabs to the right increases the framerate and hovering over the viewport (even while the area is empty and nothing is selected) decreases the framerate. This makes me think that the game is still checking for input on the viewport, even when you're not placing anything. (And maybe checking input every frame, instead of using a signal of some sorts, though I may be wrong... :)

What are some bugs?

• There are some issues with display scaling. I believe it's the game engine's fault, as it tries to scale with the screen resolution. It's up to you, but I recommend allowing hiDPI (or your engine's equivalent) and setting the stretching mode to "expand viewport" (or your engine's equivalent). This will also make your game support widescreen resolutions. You said in a devlog that the text cannot be resized due to technical reasons. That's fine, hopefully this fixes the scaling of the sprites.
• Sometimes the mouse clicks are ignored, especially while the framerate is low.

What are some suggestions?

• While placing multiple instances of a machine, instead of opening the machines menu every time, maybe you can hold control to keep on placing instances of that machine. Think of it like the building placing mechanism in Age of Empires.
• You can add a mechanism to "transfer" progress from the HTML5 version to the Windows version. I did this by copying and pasting the contents of the "save.ini" web cookie to the "save.ini" file in AppData. In the next update having a simple import/export progress tab can allow most players to do this. It would ideally copy the contents of the "save.ini" to the clipboard, so that it can be pasted and imported to the Windows version. This will also allow players to share their factories with each other. Just keep in mind that HTML5 builds on itch have some clipboard permission restrictions, that you would need to get around using javascript.

Is that image your factory?

• Yes. This is my tiny humble factory. :)
• To show it in whole, I had to stitch lots of screenshots.
• It tightly covers an impressive area of almost 200x100 squares, while featuring thousands of stored materials. The save file for this factory alone is over a megabyte in size.
• I tried to keep it extremely tidy, while labelling all crafting input materials and adding logic gates to easily deal with any materials overflowing. The material crafting progression goes from left to right and almost no materials are wasted by storing each of them in massive containers that hold around 500 materials each.
• This is right before I started building the "Ritual Infuser", which ends the game. You did a great job with your game, so I took my sweet time growing the factory. I encourage any other player to make a bigger and more feature-full factory. Maybe a worthy-opponent will show up. :)
• Thank you for your game, KorbohneD. I don't usually leave comments on itch, but I felt like your game truly deserves recognition and a detailed feedback comment like this. Feel free to ask any questions regarding my suggestions. :)

I think the game needs a better way to handle overflows. With so many interconnected systems its way too hard to perfectly balance the outputs.