A new automation game is on the way check it and wishlist now.
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Factory Engineer now support macOS Catalina.
Automation bundle is available for purchase now with 20% discount on "Factory Engineer with Survival Vacancy"
Automation Minds

Hello everyone,
i am happy to announce, a free alpha demo is available now on itch.io
https://mindleak.itch.io/survival-vacancy

About the Demo
This is an alpha demo it could have bugs, or incomplete info...etc, the purpose of this demo is to give the player a basic introduction to the game and to collect players feedback and support
The demo contains a very basic set of game features, Limited items, tiny map, no research, no survivors. the full version has a lot more to offer, taking care of survivor, train them, keep them alive, use their skill to increase machines efficiency, the advanced machine will require skilled people to operate them, and researching new technologies
If you like the game please consider adding it to your wishlist on steam this will help a lot,
Consider joining my discord server for feedback and reporting bugs and a chance to get your hands on an alpha full version

For all simulation and automation games lovers,
Survival Vacancy coming soon as early access,add it to your wish list to get notified when available.

Survival Vacancy Store Page

This version contains fix for bugs, and a fix for crashing in some situations,this update also have performance enhancements.

This version contains fix for bugs, and a fix for crashing in some situations,this update also have performance enhancements.

After 6 monthes of updates and bug fixing Factory Engineer is ready for release now.
Releasing does not mean the end of updates or no more content,udates will be comming with more features and content.
The game now is fully playable, bug free ,and fun :)

There will be a beta branch for player who want to test the new features which will be added.

After 6 monthes of updates and bug fixing Factory Engineer is ready for release now.
Releasing does not mean the end of updates or no more content,udates will be comming with more features and content.
The game now is fully playable, bug free ,and fun :)

There will be a beta branch for player who want to test the new features which will be added.

-New help menu added to the main bar.
-Supporting tutorial and guide with short videos.

-New help menu added to the main bar.
-Supporting tutorial and guide with short videos.

Now everyone can enjoy trading cards of Factory Engineer.

Now everyone can enjoy trading cards of Factory Engineer.

Item will fill a single slot in the global inventory.





- Adding a filter bar to filter between different types of items.

- Remember the last scroll position to avoid rescrolling to the same item over and over.

- Adding a filter bar to filter between different types of items.

- Remember the last scroll position to avoid rescrolling to the same item over and over

A lot of people have asked me for a pause button to take the time to design thier production lines with out the stress of the time passing.
Here it is,now you can pause and take your time :)
Also you can reuse your stored machine even if you are in debt but your debt will increase.

A lot of people have asked me for a pause button to take the time to design thier production lines with out the stress of the time passing.
Here it is,now you can pause and take your time :)
Also you can reuse your stored machine even if you are in debt but your debt will increase.

different colors for the conveyor to highlight and differntiate you production lines.



5 different colors for the teleporter to form specific teleporter network "Telporter Transmitter will communicate only with the same color Reciever"

different colors for the conveyor to highlight and differntiate you production lines.



5 different colors for the teleporter to form specific teleporter network "Telporter Transmitter will communicate only with the same color Reciever"

Several new ways to play Factory Engineer.
Now you can play in sandbox mode,choose the amount of money and research points,make your most complex automated factory,experiment the game technologies and mechanics.
There are several modes with 3 levels of difficulty
-Marathon
-Balance Target
-Performance Target
-Product Target
you will have a limited number of days to complete your objective,use your time wisely.

Several new ways to play Factory Engineer.
Now you can play in sandbox mode,choose the amount of money and research points,make your most complex automated factory,experiment the game technologies and mechanics.
There are several modes with 3 levels of difficulty
-Marathon
-Balance Target
-Performance Target
-Product Target
you will have a limited number of days to complete your objective,use your time wisely.

This update add a new dimension for the game to measure your factory efficiency.
New button in the main controls bar.Use this button to display a detailed report about your last 100 days performance.
The report will show your current score,your global score and your rank in the leaderboard.
The report will show you details about the items made in the last 100 days and thier score value.

This update add a new dimension for the game to measure your factory efficiency.
New button in the main controls bar.Use this button to display a detailed report about your last 100 days performance.
The report will show your current score,your global score and your rank in the leaderboard.
The report will show you details about the items made in the last 100 days and thier score value.

Leaderboard called "100 days performance score".
Score depend on items sold and its difficulty in the last 100 days.
The more items sold and the more they are difficult the more score you will get.
Detailed in game report will be added soon about this score performance.

Note: 100 days performance is not saved,every time you load a saved game the score will reset and will be calculated starting form the loaded game state.
this mean to get the max score you need to run your current game for 100 days.leaderboaard score will be updated only if you get higher score than the previuosly uploaded one.

This update include interactive tutorial,to make players learn the game basics quickly.

Tooltips,objective button notification....and more usability enhancements

More advanced tutorial will be added soon.

After listening to players suggustions,i decided to change the research system

With older research system,players found it very time consuming and difficult to maintain steady flow of research points, because they need to change thier production lines a lot, and they have to wait for hours to collect research points.

New research system will be as follows
- Items will have a fixed research value during the game "no more research points decay"
- Item research value will directky depend on item complexity,more complex means more reward.

The older research system could be added later as a seperate mode for the players who like to grind and spend time collecting hard earned research points.

This update is compatible with older saved game,you dont have to start new game to try it.

Thanks for everyone who gives a feedbak to make the game more fun :)

Research system update
Now every item has a minimum research value,instead of 1.
this upadte will make collecting research points a lot more easier

Performance Improvements for large scale factories

Fix: sometime player could place a machine outside of a room.

New: Error log for saving and loading problems
anyone encounter saving or loading problems,please report the content of the error file on community hub
file will be in "Documents/my games/Factory Engineer"
File Name "SaveError.txt" or "LoadError.tx"

Due to some complaints about saving the game, now the game will auto save every 10 minutes in 3 different save slots,the game will be saved at shorter intervals if played at faster speed.
-Some minor changes to saving implementation.

As a beginning you have 8 achievements,the most easy one is selling 100 Blocks,the most tough one is selling 100 Robot.
lets see how many players could unlock this tough one :)

Factory Engineer is now available for Mac OS players.

Linux build is coming soon.

Mac OS players are welcome to report any issues or suggestions in the community hub.

Factory Engineer is now available for linux and SteamOS players.

More features are comming soon.

New: All items will start with research base value of 150, but research value of simpler items will be decayed faster.

New: Research lab,info about what item is being researched and how many points will be added after research process

New: Info button beside item icon when selecting a machine,this will give player the info about recipe instead of searching for the item in item DB

New: Better info about items in Item DB

• New: Rotate conveyor and handler in place,without the need to remove them
  
• New: Press Space any time to place a conveyor
  
• New: Press Escape will bring mainmenu and dismiss tech tree and item database
  
• New: Left click on an empty area will deselect current machine
  
• Fix: Sometimes left click on a conveyor doesn't select it
  
• Fix: Sometimes right click on a conveyor doesn't remove it
  

V 0.8.13

List of changes

- If you want to speed up technology researching,Now you can start new game with 50000 research points.Spend them on whatever tech you want.

- The objective will tell you what to do if the item required by the objective is locked.

Fix items go beyond conveyor edge

Fix conveyor jamming bug
- Now with music
- Fix machines loudness

This is the first early access version

• In this version, you have 16 objectives to fulfill, all of them are based on finished product selling
  
• In this version,objectives are designed to make players go through all gameplay mechanics.