Learning Factory News

Good day to you, engineers!

We hope you enjoy your factories being idle for a while, because it's going to end real soon.

Our scientists keep making progress on pushing a big machinery update for you to operate. This time, we're 99% sure that it will be delivered to you by April 22. Prepare to brace!

In the meantime, let us share some cool pictures with you! The tile map, for one, is becoming more beatiful by day:



We are also working on an updated character design:



But most importantly, since our maps (and your factories) will have potential of becoming significantly bigger, we are now working on implementing hoverboards for swifter movement and more efficient (or at least faster) factory management! That's right, like in the movies! And your cat gets a ride, too:



If you want to get a sneak peek next week, please join us during our bi-monthly live stream, in which we're showing the most current versions of the game. You can check our recording from last week here:

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Follow the updates, support us with your likes or come chat with us on our Discord server! See you next week!


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Hey there! How's your week so far?

You know what would be great? If you join the discussion on our friendly Discord server and help us pick the best looking design for Claw Sharpener (and many other things, occasionally). Here're the 2 options we're choosing from:





Also feel free to share your opinion in the comments here :)


[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! You love developer diaries, don't you? We know everyone loves them. So we brought you the very first episode of Learning Factory dev diaries! Go watch some dev diaries, you deserve this!

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In this video we're reflecting on what the main things we've added to the game since February and share some details on what we're working right now.

If you want to see the most recent build of the game though, join our live stream in about an hour! Hoping to see you soon, engineers ;)


[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

UPD: Livestream recording is here:

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Hey there!

Missed us?

We've sure as cat missed YOU! Let's catch up, shall we? Join us tomorrow at 08 am PST / 11 am EST / 5 pm CET for a live stream right on our Steam page (and also on Twitch). We'll play some Learning Factory! We'll answer questions from you (please post them in the comments ;))! Maybe we'll sing a song. Or read a poem. Who knows! That evening is promising to be magical!

Oh, that update? Yeah, we're still working on it. Tile maps are coming into shape:



And we're also planning to introduce harvestable Turing Trees (among other stuff), so you could do this:



Come one, come all! See you tomorrow, engineers!


[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

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!


[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