Introducing Factory Fields

Exciting news here at casa secretGeek. You're excited, Mrs secretGeek is excited, the little secretGeek kids are excited too. For the first time in a long time, I've released a new game! I've put a free demo online at factory.secretgeek.net and you can buy the desktop version at itch.io Factory fields is what the academics call a factory construction game, and it's based on food. It was inspired by "builderment", a factory game that has stolen so many of my hours. I know other people get hooked on "factorio" which is more famous, and in the same category. The joy of factory fields is not what it adds to the genre, but what it takes away. I've attempted to constrain the entire idea right down to the barest essentials. As a result, we have a "1.5 dimensional" game. Conveyor belts can only convey cargo downwards and/or to the right, never upwards or to the left. As such you can never construct loops, only directed-acyclic-graphs (DAGs). It helps you think like a compiler. Another unique…