Color Fractory

A colorful fractal factory management game, inspired by games like Factorio, SpaceChem, and Shapez. Build conveyor belts to move resources, place embedded fractal grids to expand the factory space, and carefully plan out large production pipelines to beat all the levels!

Game modes

• Campaign mode — 10 levels, unlimited production cards. Beatable with enough fractal depth, but see if you can find the most space-optimal solution :)
• Challenge mode — 10 levels, limited production cards that unlock with each level. The real heart of this game, requiring some extra problem-solving skills.
• Sandbox mode — no levels, unlimited production cards, and a bunch of extra source tiles. No goal, just doodle with pipelines and have fun :)

Game mechanics

• Belts move items around; their direction is indicated with little arrows.
• Sources (big circles on the edge of the map) generate items. Place belts to grab items from them.
• Consumer (a square at the bottom of the map) consumes items. Place a belt to move items into it. In campaign and challenge modes it shows the specific item you need to progress to the next level.
• Mixer, hue shifter and reshaper combine items to craft new ones. The available crafting recipes are shown in the top-left when hovering these.
  • Mixer mixes the input colors. It typically requires extra white circles as fuel.
  • Hue shifter rotates the hue of input colors. It requires extra black circles as fuel.
  • Reshaper turns circles into squares. It requires extra gray circles as fuel.
• Bridge allows two belts to cross without mixing their item streams.
• Grid creates an embedded 3x3 grid inside a single tile, turning your factory  into a fractal one. These can be nested as deep as you want (beware of glitches at quantum level, though).

Controls

• Click on a tile and and drag to create belts. Drag over an existing belt to remove it.
• Click on a card in top-right and then click on a tile in the map to place a mixer/bridge/etc. When placing grids, they automatically preserve existing connections & structures on this tile.
• Click on the eraser (red cross) and then click on tiles to remove structures. Right-click to disable eraser.
• Click on an item on a belt to remove it. Useful when cleaning clogged pipelines.

Known issues

• You can accidentally delete the color source by placing something on top of it. It will still render, but won't function (won't generate color circles). This is, of course, a bug, and is easy to fix, but we're locked until the jam voting ends.
• Placing belts is done by clicking on a starting tile and dragging it to a neighbouring tile. If you can't place a belt, you're either dragging to a wrong tile (it will be shown in red in this case), or your first click removed an item on an existing belt (which kinda a different mode for the mouse). Try clicking on empty space instead.
• Zooming between neighbouring grids is a bit inconvenient as you have to zoom out to the parent grid and then zoom in to the grid you need. Instead, if you have a neighbouring grid, you can move the mouse to one of its tiles and do a "zoom-in" — it will just move the camera to this grid without zooming.
• Linux version might have problems with GLIBC version or the window management system. The latter can be solved by deleting the `libSDL2-2.0.so.0` file. The GLIBC version problem can't be easily solved, unless you upgrade your system to a newer GLIBC version. In any case, the windows version works perfectly using the wine emulator.

We acknowledge that the UX could be done better, but we decided to focus on gameplay, mechanics and balancing in the limited time we had. Expect some quality-of-life post-jam updates :)

Credits

• Nikita Lisitsa — game design, programming, visual design, audio design
• tfwhjkl — game design, playtesting, time management