Alans Automaton Workshop (tuxdb.com)

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Turn on Vinyl Player, Put on your Goggles,
Hack an Automaton

Alan's Automaton Workshop is a Steampunk themed puzzle game which mainly focusing on programming challenge.
You, as a novice engineer, will join Alan and his new business in town - an automaton workshop. By composing nodes and arrows with various hardware devices, you can create novel automatons to solve problems from clients, such as: improving working conditions, providing entertainments ...... or even change the world?

Design, build and test

Find out your own design and build original automatons to solve all kinds of strange cases. Each level has infinite possibilities!

40+ step-by-step levels

Starts from basic loops and conditional statements, to advanced algorithm topics. You can find satisfaction no matter what your programming skill is.

Optimization challenges

The real challenge begins after you clear a level! Try to get the best results with minimal instructions or fastest execution time.

Dive into the dark tides in steampunk world

With your efforts and the expansion of Alan's business, the more-and-more powerful automatons attract the attention from intelligence agencies ...How would it change the game?

Endless competitions, may the best engineer win!

Will host monthly or even weekly events with special puzzles in the library, and the great prizes to the winners!

Level editor, sandbox mode and more

Challenge your friends with level editor, or create your own puzzle in sandbox mode. Let's see what you can build!

Launch on January 20th 2022, 26 days countdown!!

Workshop Opening Party!!

To celebrate the release of Alans Automaton Workshop, were doing a big event on our Discord server!
https://discord.gg/rkxQzzekqw

Participate to win free games in our weekly lottery! Earn Steam gift cards and get your name in the game by being one of the quickest, or most efficient engineers! The best of the best will even be able to design an in-game character!
The demo just released so you can do some warm up for the event. Good luck, and may the best engineer win!

Here comes the rough intro of event:
Game Description Image

Weekly Challenges

Participants will be scored over the course of the 5 weekly challenges based on their Speed, Steps, and Complexity. The time of uploading the answer screenshots start at every Fridays 9AM (EST) and end at next Wednesdays 8:30AM (EST). The scores will be tallied up at the end of the event and the top 10 will be announced on Friday 12/17 at 9:00 AM (EST).

Challenge Prizes

10th 5th : $40 USD Steam Gift Card & your name in the credits.
4th: $60 USD Steam Gift Card & your name in the credits + in-game journal.
3rd: $70 USD Steam Gift Card & your name in the credits + in-game journal.
2nd: $80 USD Steam Gift Card & your name in the credits + in-game journal.
1st : $120 USD Steam Gift Card & your name in the credits & a customized NPC!

Weekly Lotteries

Anyone who submitted a valid screenshot (for that weeks challenge) before the deadline is eligible for the lottery. A valid screenshot should include the special watermark but does not have to include the solution of the challenge. In other words, you dont have to finish it to submit a screenshot!

Lottery Prizes

The two lucky winners for that week will be announced every Wednesday at 9:00 AM (EDT).[b] Each winner will receive one Steam game of their choice with the steampunk or puzzle tag. Yay!
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Overall Schedule

New challenges are announced every Friday at 9:00 AM (EDT). Players have until the following Wednesday at 8:30 AM (EDT) to submit their screenshots.

Weekly Challenge Answer Upload 1: Fri. 11/12 9:00AM(EST) - Wed. 11/17 8:30AM(EST)
Weekly Lottery Announcement 1: Wed. 11/17 11:30AM(EST)
Weekly Challenge Rank Update 1: Thu. 11/18

Weekly Challenge Answer Upload 2: Fri. 11/19 9:00AM(EST) - Wed. 11/24 8:30AM(EST)
Weekly Lottery Announcement 2: Wed. 11/17 11:30AM(EST)
Weekly Challenge Rank Update 2: Thu. 11/18

Weekly Challenge Answer Upload 3: Fri. 11/26 9:00AM(EST) - Wed. 12/01 8:30AM(EST)
Weekly Lottery Announcement 3: Wed. 12/01 11:30AM(EST)
Weekly Challenge Rank Update 3: Thu. 12/02

Weekly Challenge Answer Upload 4: Fri. 12/03 9:00AM(EST) - Wed. 12/08 8:30AM(EST)
Weekly Lottery Announcement 4: Wed. 12/08 11:30AM(EST)
Weekly Challenge Rank Update 4: Thu. 12/09

Weekly Challenge Answer Upload 5: Fri. 12/10 9:00AM(EST) - Wed. 12/15 8:30AM(EST)
Weekly Lottery Announcement 5: Wed. 12/15 11:30AM(EST)
Weekly Challenge Rank Update 5: Thu. 12/16
Weekly Challenge Engineer Awards Announcement: Fri. 12/17 9:00AM

To read more detail like score mechanic and rules, or want to participate in this big celebration, please join our Discord to check! https://discord.gg/rkxQzzekqw

PS: Also this event is considered as our final open test, so please feel free to give us any feedback or suggestions!!

[ 2021-11-11 00:46:10 CET ] [Original Post]