/FactoryFarming

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Factory Farming

Cultivation meets Automation

Factory Farming is an Automation & Logistics game themed around intensive agricultural practices.

This game is available to buy on itch.io.

Build up an expansive industrial complex by growing, harvesting, refining and manufacturing a wide variety of highly-processed products, and sell it all for a massive profit.

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Factory Farming features:

  • 15 different crops to cultivate, with differing soil & water needs.
  • 6 different growing biomes.
  • Conveyor belt system to transport items and automate the complex, including:
    • Two and three-way splitters.
    • Item filters.
    • Underground conveyors.
    • Speed upgrade.
  • 6 crop harvesters & other nature-exploiters used to extract raw resources from the earth.
  • 35 different factories in which to refine and manufacture a vast array of different end-products.
  • 13 unlockable utility items. Storage chests, paths, placeable signs, and more.
  • In-game tutorial, guiding your through the setup of your first factory.
  • Crank controls! Crank to zoom, to rotate, to resize and to follow conveyors (non-crank alternatives provided too).
  • Two zoom levels, get a close-up view of your factory.
  • Complete with music, sound effects and in-game customisable settings.
  • Full Save & Load system, with customisable Auto-Save time, and access to three save slots.
  • Long playtime. Expect to spend at least 25 hours with your factory if you want to unlock every building in the game!

For much more information on the game and how to play, check out the Community Wiki.

Build & Performance Information

Factory Farming was written specifically for Playdate hardware in pure C code in order to extract the maximum performance out of the tiny little system. The game uses a chunk system to manage the simulation of huge factories in real time.

Factory Farming's simulation performance has been check on the Playdate hardware using a test factory with a total of 6,300 buildings, crops and conveyor belts, and with 3,000 pieces of cargo moving around the facility on conveyor belts at any one time. Factories cannot grow very much larger than this due to the limited plot size.

This game can be Side Loaded onto the Playdate - see how to do this here.

Asset Credits

With thanks to the following creators for releasing great assets under permissive licences!