Learning Factory News

Status Update: Praise Again the Machines

Hey there, handsome engineers!

We hope you're doing fine, because we have awesome news for you (as we usually do!).

That big Learning Factory update you've all been waiting for -- is coming into it's final form, slowly, but steadily. As you might already know, it's aimed to bring your way a whole bunch of new research projects, new machinery to build, and new awesome goods to treat your catty customers!

We have freshly squeezed juice:

We have our own juice brewing machines:

We haave blings!

And we have not one, but TWO machines for mining gold -- both on the land and in the sea:

We call these machines William Burrows and William Seaward Burrows, respectively.

As usual, we must remind, that all this art is a work in progress: because the final, animated versions of it will look much more beautiful (as it always does!).

Want to discuss this awesome stuff in action? Mybe even influence us while we're developing it? Well, there are options. First, we encourage you to join us on Discord (as we always do, and we're always happy to see new faces there!). And second, you can join us live tomorrow:

[h2]Live Stream this Friday![/h2]

As we tend to do every fortnite, we're going on air this Friday afternoon, and you're invited! Please note that we're going to start one hour earlier than usual this time:

[h3]September 10, 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET![/h3]
Join us on the Steam page, or head to Twitch or YouTube, we'll be monitoring all 3 chat rooms.

By all means, let's connect and discuss the future of cat-centered marketing and production! And in case you can't make it tomorrow, but still want to have a saying regarding game development, well...

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[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

Back to School, Everyone!

As game devs around our 30s, we remember times when returning back to school promised a lot of boring pastimes. For many modern school children, it remains this way as of today.

But hey, as game devs around our 30s, we are also very much certain that learning new stuff is awesome, furthermore, it's a necessary condition of survival in the modern world.

As game devs, we also believe that learning should in no way be boring.

For us, this summer was an exciting journey to creating Learning Factory EDU, a free version of Learning Factory, designed and packed to help improve problem solving skills for middle school learners - while introducing them to engineering practices along the way. If you haven't seen it yet, you're very welcome to download it for free from our website.

But it was not only about developing the product itself: for us the most important was the possibility to meet with all kinds of exciting thinkers, transforming the world into its better state with help from video games! We have met teachers, non profit miracle workers and ed tech entrepreneurs in our video series

Please share a link to Learning Factory EDU to anyone interested in applying video games in education, as we're looking for teachers and parents, willing to play it along with their learners and share feedback. This will help us turn LF EDU into a razor-sharp tool carving a way towards new knowledge!

Happy new school year!

Tell us about what you've learnt this summer?

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Status Update: The Future of Educational Games, Cool Stuff at Learning Factory

Hey everyone! How's your week? As for us, we are, unsurprisingly, still working on Learning Factory, both regular and the EDU version for middle schools (as part of our collaboration with Games For Change). And while the former still has much, much development and polishing to happen (see some exciting WiP stuff below), Learning Faactory EDU is coming to its final shape. It's time for talking about insights and showing stuff!

[h2]LF EDU Dev Diaries: A Kid's Perspective On (What's Wrong With) Educational Products[/h2]
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In this episode we're meeting with Paul Darvasi, an educator with 20+ years of experience, who's now doing a visionnaire job, turining mainstream and indie games into school lessons. But most importantly, we're joined by his 11-years old son Max, who has a rather fresh perspective on what exactly is wrong with today's "educational games" and how games can and will be transforming classrooms.
If you're interested in games for education, we encourage you to treat yourself with this optimistic episode!

And if you want to know more about Learning Factory EDU, well...

[h2]Live Stream this Friday![/h2]
Long time no see, huh? Well, let's catch up! We don't have much new gameplay to show yet, BUT! Learning Factory EDU's next version, to be featured during this upcoming session, sports some new stuff from the regular version (teaser alert!). Don't hesitate to come by, we'll talk about life, the Universe, and everything!

[h3]This Friday, August 27, 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET![/h3]
Join us on the Steam page, or head to Twitch or YouTube, we'll be monitoring all 3 chat rooms.

[h2]New In-Dev Stuff From Learning Factory[/h2]
Ok, let's get back to the stuff most of you've come here for! Remember that new content we've mentioned last week? We'll our artist Sergei from Siberia has been quite busy and productive! We won't comment on much stuff; instead, you might suggest your own options - what are these preview images all about? What changes do they bring to the game?

Like this one...

Or this one!

Oh yeah!!

A tiny visual difference - a giant leap for Learning Factory mechanics! But that's just one thing. We're also working upon a bunch of new buildings:

(If you can read Russian cursive, you might even find out what those buildings do!)

(Another) Teaser alert: Learning Factory might be the ultimate place for buying top-tier graphic cards:

We don't, repeat, WE DON'T have solid release dates for all that goodness, the important thing to know is: we want to deliver it your way ASAP, the plans to start doing that is one of the upcoming weeks :)

Until then...

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Status Update: Awesome Times Are Upon Us

UPD: Roadmap updated to the most up to date and cool version of it.

Hey everyone! We hope you're having a truly awesome summer over there!

Us, we are preparing to go back to school... The school of never-ending studying cats at Learning Factory. And, once again, we are on a brink of breakthrough!

Do you remember our Early Access Roadmap, that can be found on the store page of Learning Factory? Don't bother, we got it on us:

As you probably have noticed already, Stage 1 is one red light away from completion and will land to your Steam accounts within weeks!

But the more exciting thing are those red lights in Stage 2, which promises tons of new content. Well, this is also happening right as you're reading these lines.

We can't say, which features will appear in what order, but the bottom line is: we won't leave you hanging all bored and new content-less: we're working heads down and will share more info with you as soon as we're sure about it, as we always do.

As of now, please feel free to enjoy these pictures of underwater Algae:

What do you think it's good for on cat-centered Mars from the future?

Anyway, while you're clinging your fingers in impatience, please don't forget to watch another episode of Learning Factory EDU diaries, in which we talk about why stuff surrounding the game during a lesson is as important (and sometimes way more important) than the game itself:

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Let us know about your summer and don't forget to join our Discord server, if you want to discuss the game and upcoming content with us!

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Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game more awesome!

Weeklong Deal is now LIVE!

Hello! Oleg from Luden.io is here. How are you folks doing? Enjoying summer? I hope you do! And our weeklong deal is here to help. Learning Factory, all its DLCs (including AI-generated soundtrack), and all the DLCs for while True: learn() are now discounted.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545760/Learning_Factory_AI_Generated_Soundtrack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545770/Learning_Factory_Art_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1026800/while_True_learn_Mega_Map_of_Machine_Learning/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1022720/while_True_learn_Art_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019360/while_True_learn_Soundtrack/

Please stop by and say hi in our Discord, Newsletter, and Twitter. We're sharing a lot of development processes.

The main topic from the last week was the making of the Seaweed Farming Robot.

And this week we are updating comics for Learning Factory EDU (which is now available for free here).

In the image, the cat is transferring a trained machine learning model into a Catisfaction Device.

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

Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game more awesome!