So it's stripped down Factorio?

[Will]

So it's stripped down Factorio?

[Followlon]

No it is not.

[Will]

Originally posted by Followlon:

No it is not.

so what's new?

[Followlon]

In Factorio or similar games, you create new things from existing resources. For example, you make iron plates from iron ore.

Shapez.io is different. Different geometric figures and three colors are scattered on the infinite map. At the beginning, the goals are quite simple and introduce you to the game. As the level increases, the given figures become more complex and you have to cut, rotate, mix colors and put the corresponding parts together. Accordingly, the constructions are becoming more and more extensive. The tools can also be upgraded.

[Lunafox]

It's a different flavour of the same game play loop, The're both Pizza, one being a Chicken Supreme with Extra Sauce the other a Margherita

The question is, what are you hungry for?

[maweki]

I think the big difference is that the "crafting recipes" are dynamic from the simple operations you have (cutting, joining, coloring, rotating, stacking). There are no pre-built recipes where you have to combine exactly those two resources to get a third.

The puzzle aspect is therefore not only in the creation of the machines, but also in figuring out an efficient recipe given the resources you have, as there are multiple ways to create a different shape.

And if you want to see it in a math kind of way, the shapes are basically algebraic objects and you have different operations that combine/transform those objects.

[Followlon]

Oh man maweki, what kind of profile picture do you have?

[maweki]

Originally posted by Followlon:

Oh man maweki, what kind of profile picture do you have?

you know, just a symbol of working together for the welfare of the people as opposed to some elite few ;)