Learning Factory News

Ahoy, engineers!

As you have probably guessed by the picture, the next content update of Learning Factory is not ready yet.

It's not because we're lazy (we've got cats to be lazy for us), but because that update is probably gonna be massive.

You see, we were planning to make tile generated maps. But then we thought: what's the point of making procedurally generated maps without Freeplay Mode?

So, now we're making that Freeplay Mode, too.

As for the maps, here's how they look in the current version (any Dwarf Fortress fans here?):



That's because our artist is still working on procedurally generated landscape art. It's not in the game yet, but it looks mesmerizing already:







In case you'd like to go into technical details, those landscapes are generated with Blender's geometry nodes feature. Here's how the algorithm looks (any while True: learn() fans here?):



So as you can see, we've been busy! Unfortunately, we still can't put a release date on that very peculiar update. Fingers crossed, we're expecting it to come out in 2-3 weeks. We'll keep you posted!

In other news: a working chat joke has gone too far and generated this image of a Drill-Riding Cat. Please don't ask us how did we come to this. That was not supposed to have happened. Nobody asked our artist to draw it, but he did anyway:



We don't have plans for implementing this beautiful creature into the game just yet, but if you insist, you're very welcome to go to our Discord sever and upvote it into existence!

That's it for today! Follow the updates, greatness awaits! Glory to science! Glory to KOTOVOD!


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Greetings, comrade engineers!

A brief update: next Learning Factory patch has been postponed (no release date yet). We're very busy trying to make that procedurally generated game map right for you all! Here's a little teaser from our artist's workstation:



Wanna see a sneak peak of it? Easy as pie: simply visit our Steam page or our Twitch channel tomorrow, when we'll be showcasing the most recent build of Learning Factory, answering your questions and having fun!

[h3]March 19, 07am PST/10am EST/3pm CET. You're invited!

Feel free to ask us questions in the comments, too!
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See you tomorrow :)


[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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Hey everyone! This week's update is something special! A real nice update that changes the game a lot, with a very little patch notes list. Namely:

[h2]Version 0.8.18 Released[/h2]

• Improved Transporter designs for better navigation
  
• Factory Analytics I: the game is now capable of detecting production or sales issues and display graphs relevant to those issues. Head to the Stats tab in the Monument to check out this very helpful tool
  
• Bug fixes, as usual
  

Please let us know how whether the new Analytics is helpful to you and if you want to add/improve/clarify something! Have fun, and see you next week!


[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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Hey there! New version is released. No time to explain, too much to do. Please take the following improvements into consideration. We will improve more!

[h2]Version 0.8.17 Released[/h2]

• Smart Store is now even more smart, with more and detailed window with stats
  
• In-Game Wiki updated with more fun (and mostly useless) articles about things!
  
• More detailed crafting info in the buildings (especially in the Lumber-mills!)
  
• Smoother animations
  
• Bug fixes (including the graph bugs in the Monument)
  
• UI updates
  
• Localization updates
  
• Turing Trees are not multipluying when being planted
  

We will improve more! Please tune in for that in a week or so!


[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 been merely a week since KOTOVOD Learning Factory has re-opened its doors to general public, but the fruits of hard work are already in bloom, and boy, are they promising! Cats of all kinds are visiting the factory these days: including a very peculiar breed of Clerk Cats, who are usually too busy with work to be shopping (nice try though: we all know that cats are only pretending to be working)! But they have made an exception due to how awesome the KOTOVOD goods are! Especially with the brand new Loom machine, that is making the finest pieces of cloth for cat Pillows.

The Factory's administration has also recommended us to remind all the engineers: please don't mind the machinery malfunctions at the moment, our tech staff is working hard on fixing those. There's no immanent danger to the personnel. Maybe. We'll figure this out. Please follow the updates.

[h2]Version 0.8.16 Released[/h2]

• New breed of cats - Clerk Cats
  
• New Building: Loom; New Resource - Cloth (required for producing Pillows)
  
• If two tiles of Transporters are facing each other, items don't move on them
  
• After connecting an ML Model to a Store, prices are set by a Model by default
  
• Prices suggested by an ML model are now visible in the price table
  
• Player can no longer set prices for goods that cannot be purchased in a Store
  
• A new Iron Vein is added to the map (available after starting a new game)
  
• Passing through Cotton fields and Trees made easier
  
• The game saves automatically each 15 minutes and upon closing the game
  
• Stores' inventory increased (delete and replace existing Stores for the change to take effect)
  
• Traveling between map levels made easier
  
• A new and useful type of events added
  
• Tutorial updates
  
• UI updates
  
• Bug fixes
  

Until next time! Glory to science! Glory to KOTOVOD!


[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