![]() I think people will have a much easier time relating to the blocks and physical creations you make out of them. I suspect Infinifactory will have much more mass appeal as a result. It really wasn't about chemistry in terms of what the game play actually consisted of, but I suspect a lot of people thought it was, and thus had a hard time relating to it. It really was a brilliant game although I think it was partially hobbled sales wise due to its abstract theme. SpaceChem definitely had a heavy influence on the design of some of the BTW mechanisms, and on my thinking as a designer overall. Lemmings could even be considered along a similar genre in some ways I guess. It didn't really have you automating anything as much as just getting objects from point A to B and you definitely weren't constructing complex shapes in 2 or 3 dimensions out of your contraptions. I guess The Incredible Machine (mentioned in post above) could kinda sorta not really be considered one, and I played that many years ago when it first came out, but there's something missing to it that wouldn't really have me classify it as the same thing. I recently found out about Great Permutator (through posts related to Infinifactory actually), but have yet to try it. SpaceChem and Infinifactory are the only ones I've played. Stuff like Great Permutator comes to mind You can use this thread to post general automation games too though, so we can compare. I'm wondering if there are other games that don't come from Zachtronics that feature advanced spatial reasoning combined with automata. ![]() The distinction between something like SpaceChem and something like Factorio is huge imo. Games like SpaceChem and InfiniFactory really push the spatial part by forcing you to rotate products, force products to revisit the same part of the assembly belt, etc. ![]() You can go much further than this though. This will force the player to not only find a good assembly, but to engineer it spatially. BTW and a few other mods (not a lot though), as well as Factorio for example, use a simple spatial system, where the options to move stuff are limited (as opposed to, say, Buildcraft style mods, which feature no spatial system) and the machines tend to be large and clunky. The first word spatial implies that the use of space is an issue in the automation. There's tons of mods for MC, such as BTW there's a few good games that feature it, like Factorio and certain RPS hybrids (heck, even DOTA style games feature this in part). It's when an assembly type setup is a core gameplay mechanism. What is spatial automation? The second part, automation, is easy to define. I've always hoped that there would one day be a cool minecraft mod that did spatial automation too, but afaik, there isn't one yet. I've been fascinated by spatial automation games for a while. “During Early Access, we're planning to expand the game with numerous mini-campaigns introducing new mechanics, factory blocks, environments, and products, in addition to making that new content available in the sandbox and level editor.**** WARNING: INFINIFACTORY SPOILERS IN THE THREAD **** The main campaign is finished, with more than 30 puzzles and a professionally voice-acted story, and includes a Steam Workshop enabled level editor allowing you to create and share custom puzzles from day one.” “The first available Early Access version corresponds with what we would have considered our "release version" in the past. However, it's a rather strange case of early access. Partly, that might also be because it came out on Early Access on Steam. In fact I can't even turn that into a link, the game page doesn't exist yet. So it's maybe not all that surprising that no-one is talking about Infinifactory (this is a call out to that Grey Goo thread by the way). I freaking loved it, got every achievement, and even at one point harboured plans to write a guide, part of which existed on this very site along with about 5 forum posts total in it's game forum. Now Spacechem was admittedly a game with what I imagined to be a very tiny target audience.
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