Learning Factory News

It is widely known, that KOTOVOD was created for establishing Catopia and bring eternal happiness and abundance to the feline race. This goal, however, cannot be achieved without generating profit: researchers need money for food and their researching stuff, so keep those catstomers coming!



Which is exactly why the new Advertising Cat Gate is now available for research and crafting at KOTOVOD! It is powered with early XX-century primitive marketing technique, where tempting images of goods were shown to random web users. There's no fine targeting there, but hey, it does the trick, provided that you can afford to spend money on it! And cats don't have anything to do anyway, so they'd probably fall for those banners, out of boredom at least. And this will help YOU, the engineer, pushing the feline science forward! Glory to KOTOVOD!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090

In other news...

[h3]Version 0.10.52 Released[/h3]

• New Advertising Cat Gate added to the early stage of the game. They can spawn cats looking for specific item of your choosing
  
• Research costs and order on the Tree have been slightly rebalanced
  
• Final Milestone requires more points to be unlocked
  
• Minor Milestones now require certain major Milestones, in addition to certain technology research, in order to be unlocked
  
• Raft tile cannot be removed if the player is standing on it
  
• UI/UX improvements
  
• Bug fixes
  
• Optimization
  
• More Holiday art!
  

Hey, let's discuss how you like all this stuff, shall we? Drop us a line:

• Twitter
• Discord

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there



[h2]How to Get More Involved[/h2]

Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

[h2]Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History[/h2]
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Here at KOTOVOD, Holidays are a perfect excuse for working without distractions from the outer world - all in the glory of science, of course! Nevertheless, some decorating must be conducted and some festive activities must be planned, so we could further entertain those who we care for the most - our beloved feline customers! Therefore, Holiday season brings in the best news for KOTOVOD engineers: even more work!

Every KOTOVOD worker is ready to go as far as possible while trying to fulfil the Factory's mission! They're even willing to change landscapes of Mars to make them look more festive! If and when you'll decide to join this noble quest, feel free to refer to one of our new Tutorials, explaining the art and science of terraforming! Education of staff is key priority for Dr. Katz's office, so please don't forget to check out the other new Tutorial as well.

Glory to the Holidays! Please get back to work.

[h3]Version 0.10.51 Released![/h3]

• New Milestone on the Global Progression scale
  
• 2 new Hardcore Tutorials
  
• More Holiday art
  
• (community request by Jiiniasu) the money limit of 1 million coins has been removed. Get as filthy rich, as you want!
  
• Improved interface for Cat Store, Linear Regression and Data Storage
  
• Machine learning optimized
  
• Various UI/UX fixes
  
• New achievement for spending money on ads
  

We didn't have a chance to properly showcase and discuss our Global Progression, as it wasn't released by the time of last week's live stream. Let's make it right this week instead: meet us same time:

[h3]12/03, Friday, 7am PST/ 10am EST / 4pm CET[/h3]

...and the same place:

Twitch YouTube

...or on this very Steam Page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

See you all tomorrow!

Hey, let's discuss how you like all this stuff, shall we? Drop us a line:

• Twitter
• Discord

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there



[h2]How to Get More Involved[/h2]

Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

[h2]Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History[/h2]
Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

Hey there! Just patching up a few things, hope you're doing fine!

[h3]Hotfix v0.10.50[/h3]

• Bug fixes
  
• Apple Silicon processors are now officially supported by the game (hence the picture)
  

Have a great weekend, everyone :)

It is symbolic that this news is published in #42 of KOTOVOD Worker! '42' is the answer to Life, Universe and Everything... Dr. Katz and his team don't have an answer to this question yet, but their latest invention certainly adds more meaning to the life on Mars!

Global Progression Scale demonstrates what needs to be done as we keep moving towards singularity! It is marked with milestones, which also come with bonuses for Learning Factory performance. It is a great help for KOTOVOD's engineers, as they can now stop bothering about puny human questions, such as the meaning of life: they have a scale to progress on! And the answer to all questions is, as usual: get back to work!

Get back to work we shall! Glory to Science! Glory to KOTOVOD!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

[h2]Version 0.10.49 Released![/h2]

[h3]Global Progression Scale[/h3]

• New story chapters (a.k.a. comics) are now unlocked via achieving certain milestones on the scale (to be found in the Monument). Its main features:
  
• Major milestones: unlocked mainly by successfully serving cats
  
• Minor milestones: unlocked mainly by researching stuff on the Research Tree
  
• Unlocking milestones grants minor cumulative multipliers for various Factory mechanics: at this time, it's research performance and researcher parameters, and Hype levels. More unlock bonuses will be added in the future
  
• Some major milestones unlock additional gameplay mechanics (see below)
  
• Certain milestone unlock will let cat researchers reach out to you with their CVs. If your Dormitory is already full, you can stop accepting applications in the Tavern
  
• After certain milestone unlock, regularization will be applied to linear and polynomial models, which will slightly increase their performance
  
• Every milestone unlocked will visually change the Monument looks (graphics in this version are not final though)
  
• Deposit mechanics becomes available after reaching the first milestone
  

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• (community suggestion) pressing 'backspace' or 'delete' on the buildings from your toolbar lets you dismantle them and get up to 50% resources back
  
• Researcher generating algorithm has been tuned to make researcher perks more diverse and frequent to appear
  
• New perks for researchers
  
• New look options for researchers
  
• Tuned up Metal Vein generation on Archipelago maps in Freeplay Mode: more Veins spawn now
  

[h3]Visual[/h3]

• Holiday theme! Cats sporting Santa hats are sending you seasonal greetings. More Holiday-related content coming soon
  
• Neural Network buildings occupy 6*6 tiles (previously - 4*4)
  
• More metallic Metal looks!
  

[h3]Interface[/h3]

• Feedback button is now present in the main menu as well
  
• (community suggestion by xwingxx) when a building is selected from the toolbar, respective icon is highlighted
  
• UI improvements
  
• Cat Stores and Data Storages now display whether a cat invited a friend or dissatisfied a friend as a result of a deal
  
• Upon having started learning, ML models are marked with a special alert sign that signifies that said models are not yet trained to convergence, and they can't be automatically connected to Stores until they converge. This alert disappears after a certain amount of training epochs
  
• Upon opening an ML building, player can see whether there are better trained ML models, connected to the same network
  
• If an ML model is automatically switched to a higher tier model, the former model will be halted as chances of it to work more effective are close to 0
  

[h3]Other[/h3]

• Performance optimization
  
• Bug fixes
  
• Tutorials updated
  
• Localizations updated
  
• Chinese localization updated
  

Hey, let's discuss how you like all this stuff, shall we? Drop us a line:

• Twitter
• Discord

And don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there



[h2]How to Get More Involved[/h2]

Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

[h2]Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History[/h2]
Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

It's that time of the year again, fellow engineers!

You know the drill:

[h2]Learning Factory is 25% off until December 1, 10am PST / 1pm PST / 7pm CET[/h2]

Please take note that the sale is extended this year, so you have even more time to convince your significant ones about this sweet deal on this sweet cat-factory game!

Our previous game, while True: learn() is discounted as well, a handsome 28% off, check it out, if you haven't seen it before, it has cats and hi-tech stuff, too:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn

Go get yourself some awesome games!

In other news though...


Join us, as we're planning to showcase our next update, featuring the epic 'Flask' mechanics, which will add more profound story and gameplay progression!

[h3]11/25, Thursday, 7am PST/ 10am EST / 4pm CET, the usual places:[/h3]

Twitch YouTube

...or on this very Steam Page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

See you all tomorrow!

P.S. If you want to keep an eye our progress closer, don't forget to follow Learning Factory on our Steam page and never miss an update again!




[h2]How to Get More Involved[/h2]

Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

[h2]Share Your Gameplay and Become Part of KOTOVOD History[/h2]
Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here