The story of Infinifactory is that one night while driving home you are abducted by aliens who want to use you for their construction efforts. It turns out these aliens need people to help build their manufacturing assembly lines and you are their latest worker/victim. Just like with Spacechem, Infinifactory looks deceptively simple. The rules are for each puzzle you must move the desired outputs to teleporters located in the level. Items will emerge from specific areas and you need to use the available parts to construct an assembly line to do the job.Īt the start your only challenge will be moving single block items to their goals but the game will quickly add new challenges and parts to use. The first being the ability to weld items together to create joint items that can be moved which introduces multi item shapes that need to be transported. The game features a linear campaign broken into planets which will introduce new parts and then challenge you to complete the section to move onto the next planet and so on. Infinifactory’s progression is less strict compared to Spacechem and you can make progress without having to beat every puzzle. What’s interesting about Infinifactory is that you keep any new parts and can return to previous puzzles with them to create better optimize solutions. Just like in Spacechem your results are tracked and compared to your friends via histograms with global scores I believe coming in a future update. The 3D aspect of Infinifactory adds a new wrinkle to the proceedings and further requires you to bend your thinking when it comes to the puzzles. Around the World Thinking:īuilding these assembly lines in a 3D space requires a different thought process compared to Spacechem which was more about logic based pseudo programming. Items don’t move on their own and require either parts like conveyor belts or other items to push them in order to get them going. Whenever an item either turns or falls will slow down the movement of said item which is important when it comes to synchronizing assembly lines.Īs long as parts are connected to a solid structure, you can set up assembly lines above and below each other in order to move items to where they are needed. This also factors into the scoring for each puzzle. You are scored based on how many cycles your solution took and your footprint which is the big factor of the 3D space. How footprints are tracked is that for every part that can be viewed from the sky counts as one foot print. However if you have parts lined up parallel above or below another chain, then only one line of parts will be counted.
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Puzzles are all about figuring out how to work with automation in a 3D space.
Just like in Spacechem, puzzles are built to have a variety of possible solutions and even though the game has only just been released, it seems like there are quite a lot of different solutions for puzzles based on the histograms and it will be interesting to see what advanced players will do with the later unlocked parts on the earlier puzzles. The genius part of this setup is that the two tracked metrics are dynamically opposed to each other which makes figuring out the most optimize solution difficult. To cut down on time you need to keep items moving quickly which means you’re going to need a lot of parts to help speed things up. However every part that you add also increases your footprint unless you really exploit the 3D space.
What’s even better is that besides the continued work from Zachtronics, Infinifactory features Steam Workshop integration which will surely provide a lot of head scratching moments in the future. Speaking of head scratching moments, if you remember my piece on Spacechem, then you know that I had trouble with the difficulty of the game and couldn’t finished it. But despite the greater complexities of 3D adding to the learning curve, Infinifactory does have a leg up compared to Spacechem in terms of teaching the player. Part of Spacechem’s charm and difficulty was that the game challenged you to understand the abstracted thinking that goes into programming.
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