Hi, I'm the dev of this game, please ask me anything! @PotatoMcWhiskey: wow, I'm so grateful for this video! I have been working almost 4 years on that game (me +1 dev for 2 years)... and until very recently I really had a hard time figuring out if some people would simply enjoy it a bit. But seeing such feedback... I'm just so glad I could transmit some of what I had in my mind. That's the magical part of the indie dev job
@@PotatoMcWhiskey I have planned for a shortcut , why not double clic. I'll also try to auto open the choice panel when building depots, and maybe some automatic choice just like you suggested in the video... I'll run a few tests for those solutuins. Also, currently middle click duplicate a building with its setup, not sure if you used it
I played through the demo and was sad when it ended. Which means I thoroughly enjoyed your game! That said, I've played a LOT of managerial/factory games and I have a few ideas/recommendations. 1. Hotkeys for each build menu - Considering how many times you repetitively place down certain objects it just makes sense(I did notice and like middle mouse bind.) 2. Electricity - Or some other form of difficulty ramp, there are so many minerals on the planet that the game came off as far too easy. The number one way almost all factory management games make a game more difficult is Electricity balancing. The other thing is resource availability/size. 3. Roads - Roads seem to be a big part of the transportation/belt system that you have going, I noticed a lot of my roads were bugging out/going underneath the ground. This is more a bug report than anything :P With that said, I understand it's in early access and I loved it! It's a cute little game that has now been added to my wish list to enjoy watching grow. Keep at it, you've got a lovely gem you're shaping. :)
@@Fireblats Thanks for the feedback 1) for the item categories, you have keys bindings but they are not assigned by default 2) electricity might come someday, but i'm not sure if it would really add that much to the game 3) Yes i know for roads bugged on the areas with deformed hexagons.. I hope I can improve that someday (not easy !!)
He mentioned a couple of times (in videos and on stream) that he does it on purpose to confuse viewers even more who get triggered by the "wrong" pronounciation.
As soon as I saw the intro zooming into the planet. My lord that threw me back to the days when I played Spore, it reminded me so heavily of that wonder at the unknown.
31:33 - UFO Afterlight. It is set on Mars where you have to build Terraforming stations, but also have to deal with up to 4 enemy factions at the same time. Most people consider that the enemy faction for the final mission is actually the faction that you should have allied with. Terraformation is little more than building more stations to increase a Terraforming% over time, and later upgrading those stations to a v2.
another cool factory building game is mindustry, its has campaign, multiplayer, and banger soundtrack, i love it basically free to play factorio with simple artstyle you should give it a try
Yeah I was getting a Mindustry vibe almost right away. Great game: factory + tower defence with a sprinkling of RTS. Single developer, has been adding content to the game for three and a half years since its Steam release, and a couple of years before it came to Steam. Buy it, it's cheap.
This looks really fun and promising. I'm excited to see what they will do with the game. Obviously, it's just a demo, but the only problem i have so far is that i don't know how complex it will get. Hopefully quite a bit more. Factorio also has the added element of an alien threat. Not saying they need to do the same, but having something in addition to it just being a sandbox factory sim adds quite a lot for me personally.
Be cool to see him play Dyson sphere project. Similar game play but where your building the titular project, off world, and interstellar production chains
Interesting game, might give it a shot when I have some time. Might be worth trying Dyson Sphere Program if you like the genre, although it doesn’t have the terraforming part it takes the logistic part to a interstellar level.
Demo shows a game with lots of promise, and it's likely a day one buy for me, especially if it's cheap enough. Some things need to be fixed, like the zoom levels not being fine enough. This is definitely an issue when it's clear much of the later game is going to be based around long-range transport. It also remains to be seen how fun the terraforming stuff is. Tons of fun in the hour or so it took to finish the demo, though.
Just opened this video and download the demo on Steam. OMG, Just played 4 hours non stop and I did not watch this video yet. Thank you so much, all my friends are playing now
I love that it's hexagons!! It's always irked me that there just didn't seem to be much variation outside of rectilinear designs in basebuilding and factory games like this.
After recently playing Per Aspera , just that setting up the production line at the beginning is so much better. The drone script in that game is daft leaving you scratching your head why they won't take produced resources to a nearby storage depot and halting production as your mine output is full. Really like the clean art style of this one too , someone definately knows their colour wheel.
@Tim You guys are doing it wrong. Drones prioritize jobs very heavily. If a factory A needs input then factory B's full output will not be cleared, unless its product is needed somewhere else. Just build more worker hubs so that you have enough workers for all the jobs and regularly check the worker load overlay (F1). It's a bad idea anyway to stuff your storages full of items that you may not even need at the moment. I have 175h on Per Aspera and can tell you that this is a very good and enjoyable game if you are into macro-management (think factorio's logistic drones over belt-based item transport). The logistics system is totally fine.
@Tim Like I said: Just build more worker hubs so you have enough workers to deliver everything. This very issue can happen in factorio as well. A few friends and I played pyanodon and sometimes I waited quite a while for my stuff to arrive because all the bots were busy elsewhere. No doubt factorio did it better, but it's not bad in per aspera. 🙂
@PotatoMcWhiskey - This game has had a number of new features added lately. There's now dynamite for blasting barriers, the ability to level, raise or lower terrain and container ships to ply the oceans. These all open up at Level 15. Your video put me on to this game and I've clocked in 196 hours now. I'd be very interested in watching you utilize the new features since you got be hooked on this one in the first place. I subscribe and really check in on what game your working next. Great channel, thanks for all the great recommendations.
just played this and had a blast, one thing i did find out is that the depo's are expandable, so as long as you have 2+ depos next to each other that have the same contents picked it will treat it as a single depo,. did not test how far this is stackable. kind of makes the thing you made at the end a little overkill
The drones on Mars is Mard like the atmosphere is thin that makes flight far less efficient trasport. It should def be more likre factorio with belts, arm, trains, and maybe trucks.
Oh man - whole worlds made of hexes! (!!) As a tabletop gamer of a certain age, this alone made me sit bolt upright in my chair. I'm all over this when it releases!
I played the demo and it's awesome! I like how you can see the little brown dots of trucks moving from the world view, can you make the roads show too? Auto-setting the depot when placed near a resource or extractor would be a great time saver. Thanks!
so, you're better off cascading depots for New A.'s Concrete plant, and just use a single truck stop.. also, there's no such thing as road congestion, so no need to worry about having roads travel around stops. Depots are unlocked so much earlier than roads, and the added buffering makes sure that there's always product ready fora t ruck when it swings by (and doesn't stop to wait to get loaded).
No energy required for making things. Non-local (see physics. See magic.) instant construction. No actual energy sources available on the surface. So, the question becomes, if we have these magical technologies, why are we on the planet surface in the first (or second, or third) place? My suspension of disbelief just headed off into space.
I quite like how toy like it is where it doesn't need me to set up massively complex chains of resources and energy. Theres dozens of games that do that, this is just slightly more chill
Please, Potato. I beg of you. I bought Terraforming Mars because of this channel. I bought Terraformers for the same reason. Are you really going to make me be the sort of person who owns THREE terraforming games because of this channel? Are you? ... god dammit. If he ever does Surviving Mars I'm gonna own FOUR, aren't I.
@@PotatoMcWhiskey Be careful with Surviving Mars though. I stopped playing after 15min because of how terrible the UI is. You need a somewhat high tolerance for stuff like that when you want to play SM.
o.0 first time running across your channel... but a number of times during the video I swear I had to double check that youtube was not playing the video at double the speed. lol, you talk fast dude. you related to the micro machine man? X-P thanks for sharing your view on the game and introducing me to this entertaining looking game. Seems to be releasing in 10 days so bonus.
Am very curious to see how they solved the mapping issues of those hexagons toward the poles. It’s cool that you can zoom way out to the planet view but I would like to see them improve the LOD transitions to be less noticeable. To make depos easier to manage they can have no type at first then lock onto the resource type they receive. Roads/stops are kind of ugly and I’d like to see them improved. Hope the gameplay delivers and release price is reasonable.
The way any other game would do it - Either by faking the hexagons and having an internal mapping of them while faking how it is displayed to the player. Or by having pentagons where necessary.
Like I said - You either deal with the pentagons normally, or you do some visual and behind the scene math trickery to make the player THINK there's always hexagons, even when there aren't. (I've seen a couple of game do this)
I look forward to your gameplay! I wonder how this will compare to Per Aspera? I'm finding the story very intriguing, but the gameplay mechanics and UI could use some work.
So having paused your playthrough to download and play the demo 1 the demo is short. I hope that doesn't reflect the full game 2 why do I have to go right down to the bottom right of my screen to change recipes? it a toss up if I spent more time waiting for things to finish or reaching for the bottom right. but those combined would easily be over 50% of the time spent on the demo
Can you copy/paste a selection of buildings? In the start there, when you build the extractors, could easy up life if you can just copy the blueprint for how they are placed, and put the blueprint on a new location where it will be built as soon as you have the right stuff.
I appreciate your enthusiasm but some explanation of what and why you are doing things would help me. Perhaps an outline of what you want to accomplish would be helpful.
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Hi, I'm the dev of this game, please ask me anything!
@PotatoMcWhiskey: wow, I'm so grateful for this video!
I have been working almost 4 years on that game (me +1 dev for 2 years)... and until very recently I really had a hard time figuring out if some people would simply enjoy it a bit.
But seeing such feedback... I'm just so glad I could transmit some of what I had in my mind. That's the magical part of the indie dev job
It would be good if we could double or right click buildings to change recipes! Aside from this the gaem is great really excited!
@@PotatoMcWhiskey I have planned for a shortcut , why not double clic. I'll also try to auto open the choice panel when building depots, and maybe some automatic choice just like you suggested in the video... I'll run a few tests for those solutuins.
Also, currently middle click duplicate a building with its setup, not sure if you used it
Really reminds me of Spore, thanks for giving me a nostalgia trip. Will definitely check the game out.
I played through the demo and was sad when it ended. Which means I thoroughly enjoyed your game! That said, I've played a LOT of managerial/factory games and I have a few ideas/recommendations.
1. Hotkeys for each build menu - Considering how many times you repetitively place down certain objects it just makes sense(I did notice and like middle mouse bind.)
2. Electricity - Or some other form of difficulty ramp, there are so many minerals on the planet that the game came off as far too easy. The number one way almost all factory management games make a game more difficult is Electricity balancing. The other thing is resource availability/size.
3. Roads - Roads seem to be a big part of the transportation/belt system that you have going, I noticed a lot of my roads were bugging out/going underneath the ground. This is more a bug report than anything :P
With that said, I understand it's in early access and I loved it! It's a cute little game that has now been added to my wish list to enjoy watching grow. Keep at it, you've got a lovely gem you're shaping. :)
@@Fireblats Thanks for the feedback
1) for the item categories, you have keys bindings but they are not assigned by default
2) electricity might come someday, but i'm not sure if it would really add that much to the game
3) Yes i know for roads bugged on the areas with deformed hexagons.. I hope I can improve that someday (not easy !!)
After YEARS of Factorio... The angles are what would drive me insane...
Excuse you. Hexagons are the bestagons.
Try Dyson Sphere Program
That isometric feel really does break my brain when it tries to convert between Factorio and what I'm actually seeing.
@@davidr3224 yeah, I play it and the changing in scales between latitude is just so annoying
Wait until you see the cursed hexes… or hexagons with 7 sides
I definitely laughed when you switched between the two standard pronunciations of aluminum/aluminium at 24:05
He mentioned a couple of times (in videos and on stream) that he does it on purpose to confuse viewers even more who get triggered by the "wrong" pronounciation.
Love it 😂
cant wait for the next 30 destiny streams to be played over this game
LMFAO
As soon as I saw the intro zooming into the planet. My lord that threw me back to the days when I played Spore, it reminded me so heavily of that wonder at the unknown.
31:33 - UFO Afterlight. It is set on Mars where you have to build Terraforming stations, but also have to deal with up to 4 enemy factions at the same time. Most people consider that the enemy faction for the final mission is actually the faction that you should have allied with. Terraformation is little more than building more stations to increase a Terraforming% over time, and later upgrading those stations to a v2.
another cool factory building game is mindustry, its has campaign, multiplayer, and banger soundtrack, i love it
basically free to play factorio with simple artstyle you should give it a try
Yeah I was getting a Mindustry vibe almost right away. Great game: factory + tower defence with a sprinkling of RTS. Single developer, has been adding content to the game for three and a half years since its Steam release, and a couple of years before it came to Steam. Buy it, it's cheap.
This looks really fun and promising. I'm excited to see what they will do with the game. Obviously, it's just a demo, but the only problem i have so far is that i don't know how complex it will get. Hopefully quite a bit more. Factorio also has the added element of an alien threat. Not saying they need to do the same, but having something in addition to it just being a sandbox factory sim adds quite a lot for me personally.
I bought Astroneer yesterday. so thanx a bunch for your new playthrough of something else. Love all you 'Spuddies'.
I love when you branch out to different games
Be cool to see him play Dyson sphere project. Similar game play but where your building the titular project, off world, and interstellar production chains
Love these honest reviews of games it's wholesome genuine content and I'm sure the Devs appreciate it too :)
A good explanation of the 2 factoies 1 pad is its like a farm triangle with high adjacencies, rather than many Isolated farms
I couldn't work out how he failed to use that as a simile. A 'Potato' moment perhaps.
Interesting game, might give it a shot when I have some time. Might be worth trying Dyson Sphere Program if you like the genre, although it doesn’t have the terraforming part it takes the logistic part to a interstellar level.
Demo shows a game with lots of promise, and it's likely a day one buy for me, especially if it's cheap enough. Some things need to be fixed, like the zoom levels not being fine enough. This is definitely an issue when it's clear much of the later game is going to be based around long-range transport. It also remains to be seen how fun the terraforming stuff is. Tons of fun in the hour or so it took to finish the demo, though.
Just opened this video and download the demo on Steam. OMG, Just played 4 hours non stop and I did not watch this video yet. Thank you so much, all my friends are playing now
Hell yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing more of this
Definitely gonna give that demo a go
Also, one Supply Center can handle the O2 AND the Concrete, you don't NEED the second Supply Center just because two resources are being used.
2 minutes in and am already downloading the game. seems a lot like the Dyson Sphere Project
I love that it's hexagons!! It's always irked me that there just didn't seem to be much variation outside of rectilinear designs in basebuilding and factory games like this.
After recently playing Per Aspera , just that setting up the production line at the beginning is so much better. The drone script in that game is daft leaving you scratching your head why they won't take produced resources to a nearby storage depot and halting production as your mine output is full.
Really like the clean art style of this one too , someone definately knows their colour wheel.
@Tim You guys are doing it wrong. Drones prioritize jobs very heavily. If a factory A needs input then factory B's full output will not be cleared, unless its product is needed somewhere else. Just build more worker hubs so that you have enough workers for all the jobs and regularly check the worker load overlay (F1). It's a bad idea anyway to stuff your storages full of items that you may not even need at the moment.
I have 175h on Per Aspera and can tell you that this is a very good and enjoyable game if you are into macro-management (think factorio's logistic drones over belt-based item transport). The logistics system is totally fine.
@Tim Like I said: Just build more worker hubs so you have enough workers to deliver everything. This very issue can happen in factorio as well. A few friends and I played pyanodon and sometimes I waited quite a while for my stuff to arrive because all the bots were busy elsewhere. No doubt factorio did it better, but it's not bad in per aspera. 🙂
I get more of an Anno vibe from this than Factorio, but it still looks real neat.
@PotatoMcWhiskey - This game has had a number of new features added lately. There's now dynamite for blasting barriers, the ability to level, raise or lower terrain and container ships to ply the oceans. These all open up at Level 15.
Your video put me on to this game and I've clocked in 196 hours now. I'd be very interested in watching you utilize the new features since you got be hooked on this one in the first place. I subscribe and really check in on what game your working next. Great channel, thanks for all the great recommendations.
This game achieved what Sid's Civilization haven't figured out for 3 decades... A True 3D planet as a Hex map with North & South Poles!!!!
nice save with the mech parts...
just played this and had a blast, one thing i did find out is that the depo's are expandable, so as long as you have 2+ depos next to each other that have the same contents picked it will treat it as a single depo,. did not test how far this is stackable. kind of makes the thing you made at the end a little overkill
The drones on Mars is Mard like the atmosphere is thin that makes flight far less efficient trasport. It should def be more likre factorio with belts, arm, trains, and maybe trucks.
There is lower gravity, maybe they are just propelled drones.
Oh man - whole worlds made of hexes! (!!) As a tabletop gamer of a certain age, this alone made me sit bolt upright in my chair. I'm all over this when it releases!
12:20 Ah yes, the perfect shape. The strongest shape even
I played the demo and it's awesome! I like how you can see the little brown dots of trucks moving from the world view, can you make the roads show too?
Auto-setting the depot when placed near a resource or extractor would be a great time saver.
Thanks!
so, you're better off cascading depots for New A.'s Concrete plant, and just use a single truck stop.. also, there's no such thing as road congestion, so no need to worry about having roads travel around stops. Depots are unlocked so much earlier than roads, and the added buffering makes sure that there's always product ready fora t ruck when it swings by (and doesn't stop to wait to get loaded).
Watched 5 seconds and already am intrigued
very nice game - Factorio x Terra.Mars x Transport Fever - I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product
I don't know if you've heard of it, but Per Aspera is pretty fun! It's a game similar to this with a story as well
This looks like it will destroy my social life and productivity.
No energy required for making things. Non-local (see physics. See magic.) instant construction. No actual energy sources available on the surface. So, the question becomes, if we have these magical technologies, why are we on the planet surface in the first (or second, or third) place? My suspension of disbelief just headed off into space.
I quite like how toy like it is where it doesn't need me to set up massively complex chains of resources and energy. Theres dozens of games that do that, this is just slightly more chill
@@PotatoMcWhiskey Whilst I am an old whiny git who enjoys complexity far too much. Nae worries, as they say absolutely nowhere.
The colonies have a small solar panel. ;-)
Instantly downloaded. The look and feel is perfection!
It does look good but it does take a few minutes to get used to the hexagons
This is more like factorio crossed with Rise of Industry! This looks fun since those both great games!
Dyson Sphere Program is so much better.
Would love to see more content on this game once it launches! Downloaded the demo and it looks fantastic
I played the demo and now I am craving more.
ive never see you play factorio, i'd kind of like to see that
Please, Potato. I beg of you. I bought Terraforming Mars because of this channel. I bought Terraformers for the same reason. Are you really going to make me be the sort of person who owns THREE terraforming games because of this channel? Are you?
... god dammit.
If he ever does Surviving Mars I'm gonna own FOUR, aren't I.
Per Aspera is next and Surviving mars is on the cards MY DUDE YOUR WALLET IS SO DEAD
@@PotatoMcWhiskey Per Aspera is great. I hope you do a full playthrough if you like it!
@@PotatoMcWhiskey Be careful with Surviving Mars though. I stopped playing after 15min because of how terrible the UI is. You need a somewhat high tolerance for stuff like that when you want to play SM.
If you like this you should give Per Aspera a whirl
I've really enjoyed watching you play a lot of games, sir. Try Per Aspera if you like this one. I really enjoyed it.
You explain things very well. Interesting game-cool video! 😊
It's made of hexagons
Hey thanks for the video, your interest convinced me to go get myself.
Thanks! I tried the demo and it's great!
Ooh this looks like my kinda game, better go check out the demo
Damn, 2am here and I can't believe I caught it this early 😁 This game looks REALLY fun! Thank you for showing it off, you always bring us gems 😌
so they demand concrete before oxygen... smart!
o.0
first time running across your channel... but a number of times during the video I swear I had to double check that youtube was not playing the video at double the speed. lol, you talk fast dude. you related to the micro machine man? X-P
thanks for sharing your view on the game and introducing me to this entertaining looking game. Seems to be releasing in 10 days so bonus.
Am very curious to see how they solved the mapping issues of those hexagons toward the poles. It’s cool that you can zoom way out to the planet view but I would like to see them improve the LOD transitions to be less noticeable. To make depos easier to manage they can have no type at first then lock onto the resource type they receive. Roads/stops are kind of ugly and I’d like to see them improved. Hope the gameplay delivers and release price is reasonable.
The way any other game would do it -
Either by faking the hexagons and having an internal mapping of them while faking how it is displayed to the player.
Or by having pentagons where necessary.
The sphere is warped as you get to the top
@Mansen that's my point you'd need to add pentagons quads triangles etc as they converge which would mess up the positioning
Like I said - You either deal with the pentagons normally, or you do some visual and behind the scene math trickery to make the player THINK there's always hexagons, even when there aren't. (I've seen a couple of game do this)
Some programmer was sitting playing factorio next to the person playing Per-Aspera.
Or one Dev loved factorio but not the other one, so wanted to make things differently
(Actually Per Aspera came later, during the development)
I think Potato might be in love!
Who needs single-player factory games in 2023?
I look forward to your gameplay! I wonder how this will compare to Per Aspera? I'm finding the story very intriguing, but the gameplay mechanics and UI could use some work.
What i wonder is how they made a sphere with only hexagones cause you can't there should be 12 pentagones
New quest find them!
i hate that i now cant un-know this.. thankyou
They’re probably placed at the poles or something so it looks intentional and doesn’t interfere with the game
@@livtheolive3888 no they have specifick places around the sphere in triangle relations you can look this up if you'd like a visual representation
It looks fun, I'll keep an eye out
What happened to humankind?
I hoped you would play this game. It hits the right spot of mine. Somethibg like factorio and TTD.
Open transport tycoon deluxe IN SPACE of course its going to be awesome
Basically *_shapez io_* with more graphics ...and trucks.
So having paused your playthrough to download and play the demo
1 the demo is short. I hope that doesn't reflect the full game
2 why do I have to go right down to the bottom right of my screen to change recipes? it a toss up if I spent more time waiting for things to finish or reaching for the bottom right. but those combined would easily be over 50% of the time spent on the demo
Yeah the UI could use improvement
I have yet to find how much it will cost though. Does anyone here have a clue of what it will cost on release?
would love more vic3 content :)
Potato, you need to try out Timberborn. It's legit amazing.
a game where the pollution IS the goal?
I was about to install Dyson Sphere Project again but this looks not as complex as DSP can be.
Can you copy/paste a selection of buildings?
In the start there, when you build the extractors, could easy up life if you can just copy the blueprint for how they are placed, and put the blueprint on a new location where it will be built as soon as you have the right stuff.
Would love to see civ 7 use a globe like this.
Haha. The closed captions said potato bug whiskey
Roads?! Where we're going We don't need Roads!
Why? Because I like trains
I wonder: why roads, rather than railroads? Since your factories are all fixed and automated, railroads make way more sense!
I think it needs a combat with alien species just like factorio has and dyson program
hopefully they add it in future updates
This looks really good. =]
the trains give me strong ttd vibes.
still demo but gameplay looks like luxury, awesome
this game gives me a dyson sphere vibe....maybe its good
Hmm, another factory games goes planetary. Would play if I wasn't already into DSP. But I still might
My second watch. So good. Gotta have it.
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Have you tried Transport Fever 2 before? Game loop seems similar.
Dyson Sphere Program?
Meets Infraspace.
Looks fun, but do you get a chance to become a benevolent AI that rules humanity like in that other terraforming game?
Check out the game Per Aspera! I love this demo also!
nice, very good indeed, remember me "per aspera", have you played? Has a lot in comon.
Have you played "Per Aspera" ? Same concept but a little more polished IMO
Looks like "InfraSpace"
Where is Terra Invicta?
have you tried dyson sphere program?
ye
This feels like infraspace but less content and 2d
New Anchorhead
AAAAAA Why are they building trucks when they could be trains?!?!
There are trains later in the game to replace it or use both at the same time as you like
Something about the game reminds me of planetary interaction on Eve online.. anyone else?
i don't see the resources, the text is sooo small like for ant eyes!
I appreciate your enthusiasm but some explanation of what and why you are doing things would help me. Perhaps an outline of what you want to accomplish would be helpful.
I JUST PLAYED IT ITS SO GOOD
I am into this!
If Factorio and Anno had a baby?