The multiplayer megapacket Twinsen

Last month I joined KatherineOfSky's MMO event as a player. I noticed that after we reached a certain number of players, every few minutes a bunch of them got dropped. Luckily for you (but unluckily for me), I was one of the players who got disconnected every, single. time, even though I had a decent connection. So I took the matter personally and started looking into the problem. After 3 weeks of debugging, testing and fixing, the issue is finally fixed, but the journey there was not that easy.

Multiplayer issues a...

Crash site: First state Ernestas, V453000, Albert

For many weeks now the GFX department has been focused on preparing replacements for the placeholder graphics of the campaign crash site. The subject as usual is not that easy because we had to first solve the main concept of the crash site.

It happens that those new entities belong to the Factorio universe, but they come from a different reality than the usual DIY/diesel punk of the game. So we had to invent a new way to design machines that look like Factorio but that are not too familiar.

Here a proof of concept of the look:

The concept is that the big (medium) spaceship broke into pieces as it crash landed, and lost many components that the player, during the introduction, will repair and use for his own profit.

The look of the spaceship remnants are a little bit based on the d...

Hello,
this is a special edition. We are celebrating that we managed to write something about the game development of Factorio every single Friday and reached the number 300. Since we hopefully won't get to another round number like this before finishing the game, we would like to make this one a little bit different. We will introduce people from the team.

Everyone was asked to answer the following questions:

• What were your favorite video games growing up?
• What did you do before Factorio?
• What do you do in the Team?
• What's your favorite part of Factorio?
• Anything else that is important about you.

Michal (kovarex) Kovařík
Founder, Game designer, Developer, "Approver"

My favorite games are: Baldur's gate, Starcraft, Civilisation, Xcom, They are billio...