#INFINIFACTORY STORY WINDOWS#

Zachtronics' last game was Ironclad Tactics, a neat, comparatively simple collectible card game. Combining the two is an interesting idea because they're cool things independently, and because it's sort of hard to picture how you represent the complexity of the former in a block engine like the latter.

It was never finished or released commercially, but it's best known now as part of the inspiration for Minecraft.

#INFINIFACTORY STORY WINDOWS#

Ill leave you with one final story, which I dont think Ive ever told before: Toward the end of my career at Microsoft I worked briefly on a team inside Microsoft Game Studios making games for Windows Phone 7. Infiniminer meanwhile was a multiplayer game that developer Zach Barth made beforehand. Infinifactory, a snazzy 3D factory-building game that plays like a version of SpaceChem that wasnt made by an asshole. SpaceChem was beloved for its ingenious puzzles, the room it created for player creativity, and the odd twists of its progression and story. There's not much more information available than that - it'll have Steam Workshop integration so people can create their own puzzles, and there'll be a story-driven campaign with over 30 puzzles. It's due in Early Access later this year. There's only a little information about this new game, but it's about designing and running factories and optimising them via histograms just as before, but now you'll be doing it in 'exotic alien locales' with a 'next-generation block engine'. In 3D!' says the site, which sounds like a very good thing when you consider that SpaceChem broke the brains and captured the hearts of just about everyone at RPS who played it. Zachtronics has linked the SpaceChem molecule to the Infiniminer molecule to create and announce their new game: Infinifactory.

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