It's the future near you, and there's a hunger for art made by humans! To meet the growing demand the process has been streamlined using the latest AI assisted art factories! No more need for the human hand!

The artists (you!) make the factory that makes the art! You won't have to worry about the materials or even what the end result is! That's been calculated. Fill the quota to fulfill your dreams!

New User Manual:

Arrow keys to move around the factory.
Z or C to build.
X allows you to rotate and switch the modes of machines.
Enter opens a build menu. Left and right to navigate menu. Z to close menu.
To enable mouse controls:
- Hit enter on main menu or during tutorial messages and navigate down to "Toggle Mouse".

Credits:

"Pastoral" music
by @gruber_music / @krajzeg

Code+Art: Munro

Changelog

0.0.4
- Fixed bug with items keeping their velocity even after being stuck.
- Made mute music work.
0.0.3
- Changed red colors of machines to be easier to tell from deleting mode.
- Added mouse support.
- Swapped out sound track for something more relaxing.
- Reduced level 3 difficulty spike.
0.0.2
- Fixed level 3 bug.
0.0.1
- Initial release.

Made in a month for zachlike jam.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating	Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars (11 total ratings)
Author	Munro
Genre	Puzzle
Made with	PICO-8
Tags	2D, factory, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Singleplayer, zachlike

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Comments

Atapac20 days ago

i cannot place the green conveyor

tripl-spike87 days ago

i'm going to make a picasso

SingGuang248 days ago

The game is fine, but still buggy

The stacker is very buggy when you put machines too close (only 1 grid between the output of factory and input of stacker)
Sometimes there are arts from other colors even though there isn’t any errors at all

NotAJoestar1 year ago

This Game is very buggy. I mean items coming from conveyorbelts not even connected to their respective spawner :(

tripl-spike1 year ago

i really don't like only keyboard control

dzamie1 year ago

This was a cute little game! Unfortunately, very, very buggy. Art randomly corrupts. Upon beating the "thanks for playing" level, the game crashes. Sometimes, art will simply decide to not be on the conveyors anymore, and fly randomly across the screen.

ilookedeverywhere games2 years ago (1 edit)

Very cool! I got an error while playing:

c113 years ago

wtf

Detros3 years ago(+1)

I liked the game though I kept messing the controls a lot.

I got bit confused by two things

While the robot is talking at the start of level you can't try the controls
I have managed to hit Tab and while those belt group hints were nice for a while they obstructed the art too much. I have eventually noticed Tab is mentioned in Pico controls on the side and managed to turn it off. Can you add Tab to the list of controls in New User Manual?

One more thing ad New User Manual (which I have read only after finishing game): while it suggests to close Build menu via Z, I have just used Enter again ... thanks for offering multiple options.

Text issues noticed:

level 1: "that's" -> "that means"?
level 1: "demmand" -> "demand"
level 1: "art is output" -> "art is outputted"
level 2: "your" -> "you're" / "you are"
level 3: "lets" -> "let's" / "let us"
level 4: no text shown in the start

Gio3 years ago(+1)

This is great! Do you have a BBS link?

ayasebun3 years ago(+1)

really love this game! thank you for making it.

unfortunately i got this bug?

lolnoobgodme3 years ago (1 edit)

This was a fun game i wish there were more levels that keep on getting more complicated and larger with new pieces. I have a question will this game become a full steam game in the future like celeste?

Munro3 years ago(+1)

Thanks! Once all the bugs have been smushed I'd love to add more levels! Steam isn't in the cards at the moment.

Smoke Fumus3 years ago

I strongly recommend you take it to full size, same way as Tower of Archeos did.

Demapples143 years ago

Why do the pieces keep teleporting when they go through machines?

Munro3 years ago

ah sorry have been trying to squash that bug. I'll take a look. it has to do with how the sprites are kept in memory.

clawjelly3 years ago

Nice game!

Z is a bad key for german users, as on german keyboards it's switched with the Y key.

Munro3 years ago

Thanks! C key is alternative and there's a mouse mode if that helps.

CodeNick3 years ago

Runtime error line 368 :(

Munro3 years ago

thanks for the debug log. I'll add a sanity check so that error will at least not crash the game.

METGaming3 years ago

Great game! Very engaging, fun, and after a bit, easy to understand! The only problem is the numerous bugs where some pieces fly off screen or switch with other pieces.

Munro3 years ago

thanks! yes those sorts of bugs kept popping up during dev. I'll try to address them in future version.

Munro3 years ago

ah found why a new bug why that was happening more and fixed.

calunio3 years ago

I love this game, just the kind of game that gets me addicted. It's not hard per se, but the mechanics would be so much better with a mouse instead of keyboard, so it's somewhat clunky. Still love the concept.

Munro3 years ago

thanks. totally agree about mouse, actually used it for debugging but didn't get to fully supporting it. will upload a update for that today.

Bastian Top3 years ago

Hey this game is really cool and factorio like! I played it last nite I must say though that I am just bad and got stuck rather quickly, I will ty it again later but find my video review below:

03:10 Artorio

Munro3 years ago

thanks for playing! the balance of the levels needs more playtesting and reordering so don't feel bad about it!