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Friday Facts #328 - 2019 recap

Read this post on our website. Hello, The office here in Prague is still 'closed' until next week, so not much is happening (so our team can rightfully rest). Things will get cracking again on Monday, and our first task is to get 0.18 done! For that reason, the FFF today is a little on the short side.

2019 recap

2019 was quite a 'typical' year for us. We released 0.17 early in the year, did some bug-fixing for about 6 months, and then we went back to development work. Saying that, we hit some major milestones this year:

There was the all time concurrent player peak of over 22,500 with the 0.17 launch.
The historically low count of bug reports on the forum.
2 million sales which we reached just last week.

You can see some correlations between this timeline and the commit frequency graph below.

Please note, the number of commits does not reflect the value and quality of an individual :). It seems like we are somewhat 'in-sync' with each other, which I suppose has good and bad effects. This year was also pretty good for the FFF blog itself. I would even say, this was the best year yet, with the highest quality and most well received posts we have ever produced. In terms of readership (on our website), here are the top 5 FFF posts of this year:

No surprise that our 0.17 launch announcement ones are the most popular. And here is a graph showing the total website viewership statistics, because I also find them super interesting. You can really see the spikes every Friday :D. It is also funny, this year we started getting a lot of spam emails asking about posting 'sponsored articles' on our website. We would never accept any such proposals.

We really have a tough journey ahead of us this year, we are getting ready for the game to come out on September the 25th... Do or die, come what may. There are 9 months remaining now, and we have our work cut out. We'll keep you up to date on our progress, and we hope you will keep us up to date on your thoughts, at the usual place.

[ 2020-01-03 20:08:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Factorio

Wube Software LTD. Developer

Wube Software LTD. Publisher

2020-08-14 Release

Indie Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop Tags

Game News Posts: 506

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Overwhelmingly Positive (164072 reviews)

https://www.factorio.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Factorio Linux64 [306.86 M]
Factorio Linux32 [300.1 M]

Available DLCs:

Factorio: Space Age

Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. In the beginning you will find yourself chopping trees, mining ores and crafting mechanical arms and transport belts by hand, but in short time you can become an industrial powerhouse, with huge solar fields, oil refining and cracking, manufacture and deployment of construction and logistic robots, all for your resource needs. However this heavy exploitation of the planet's resources does not sit nicely with the locals, so you will have to be prepared to defend yourself and your machine empire.

Join forces with other players in cooperative Multiplayer, create huge factories, collaborate and delegate tasks between you and your friends. Add mods to increase your enjoyment, from small tweak and helper mods to complete game overhauls, Factorio's ground-up Modding support has allowed content creators from around the world to design interesting and innovative features. While the core gameplay is in the form of the freeplay scenario, there are a range of interesting challenges in the form of the Scenario pack, available as free DLC. If you don't find any maps or scenarios you enjoy, you can create your own with the in-game Map Editor, place down entities, enemies, and terrain in any way you like, and even add your own custom script to make for interesting gameplay.

Discount Disclaimer: We don't have any plans to take part in a sale or to reduce the price for the foreseeable future.

What people say about Factorio

No other game in the history of gaming handles the logistics side of management simulator so perfectly. - Reddit
I see conveyor belts when I close my eyes. I may have been binging Factorio lately. - Notch, Mojang
Factorio is a super duper awesome game where we use conveyor belts to shoot aliens. - Zisteau, Youtube

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Linux (tarball installation)
Processor: Dual core 3Ghz+Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 core. DirectX 10.1 capable GPU with 512 MB VRAM - GeForce GTX 260. Radeon HD 4850 or Intel HD Graphics 5500
Storage: 3 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Linux (tarball installation)
Processor: Quad core 3GHz+Memory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 4.3 core. DirectX 11 capable GPU with 2 GB VRAM - GeForce GTX 750 Ti. Radeon R7 360
Storage: 3 GB available space

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