I feel infinifactory has been done before, making an automated factory can be seen in simple flash games, but what the game allows you to do is figure out your own combinations of blocks or procedures to get to the goal. Many games who share this first person puzzle genre, Anti-Chamber to name one, rely on the gameplay to be something new and / or interesting enough for the player to invest the time to figure out the level. That being said, graphics are good in my books as long as they don’t give me a headache after an hour.

The only true comparison is a well textured source engine game like CS:GO. Graphics and audio qualities are acceptable, but for one guy you cant really complain. Although the storyline is pretty weak, its also a puzzle game so of course that’s not what your here for, however sometimes it gives the player another reason to keep trying to get pass a level they are stuck on to develop a story. I mean I am not asking for a Agatha Christie story but setting up the game with such a comical vibe only to have quite a pretty serious puzzle game gives off a juxtaposition feeling.

Whilst its a interesting storyline, you feel that the game doesn’t take itself seriously especially with the introduction where the alien leader has a comically long entrance that I just found to be cheap. You are an abducted human – I think? – by a strange alien race in which you are set to create these factories for what can only be guessed at weapons for them to use. Seems simple right? that’s what I thought until I realised I had created a giant Rube Goldberg machine only three levels in.īut before we get to the steep inclination of difficulty lets first address the strange storyline that’s running through out. Infinifactory, the indie game by one man named Zachary Barth, is a first person puzzler where the aim is to make an automated system to produce a certain product from other blocks. Kicking things off, we got a two games I picked up yet again from the humble monthly bundle which after having it since it started is the best monthly subscription based business for value in my opinion, with this month costing me £8 but getting over $100 worth of games from it every month, even if some of them are obsucure indie games some gems do appear now and then, and one of them was… Thus having additional problem solving techniques at my disposal than I felt I should have really didn't make a difference, as I didn't feel the need to use them ever again either.After a few AS level exams and a sprinkling of social events I am back to writing these hopefully regularly.

Hence why I said 'no biggy' about the spoiler thing yesterday, as the game was essentially over when it happened, I just had no idea that was the case. After that, I don't think I had to put serious though into any of the remaining puzzles, and while I enjoyed each of them, I didn't feel particularly challenged by them and just kind of breezed through the rest of the game. Honestly though, I think the difficulty curve peaks towards the end of world 5, ironically, precisely at the puzzle that has been much discussed with regards to spoilers. I've avoided talking about it for spoiler reasons, but there are at least a couple of levels in the last area that had be lol'ing :) The one with the mole creatures, and I just wanted to say, I got a big BTW feeling about it :) Might have been better to only unlock that option once you've completed the level and/or whole game and had two different sets of performance statistics you're evaluated against, one for default settings, and one for with adjustable input speed. It tends to suggest to players that if they aren't operating on max speed they are somehow doing things wrong. Not entirely certain about making it adjustable as a design decision, especially given that the performance graphs are being evaluated for machines operating on a completely different set of parameters.

Gives me a good reason for a second play through :) Yeah, I figure for later game it would require an entirely different solution to do things on max input rate, which is one of the reasons I decided to leave it alone. Sure, I'll try to push it up after the design is finished, which usually works to make it a bit quicker, but the difference between MAX and the one below is very large. Gilberreke wrote:I'm only at world 3, and I'm quickly turning it down more and more, so yeah, I assume it's only viable for early game to have it always on max.

Should you get infinifactory