Factory Automation Tower Defense Roguelike! - Tower Factory [Demo] 

Economy build order is an important thing in all RTS games, and this tower defence also has that need to grow that strong economy as fast as you can. This is pretty novel for a tower defence game which normally gives resources based on enemies defeated. Pretty neat for a demo.

Wanderbot: Ignores all text in the tutorial, skipping through as fast as possible Wanderbot when they can't work out how to change the recipe in the sawmill: shockedpikachu.jpg

I just realized that this is a Tower Defense RTS Roguelike... And that's honestly such a wicked idea. I'll have to pick this up ASAP when it releases fully!

I've no idea if it'll stay this way deeper down the tree, but the balancing of the upgrades is really tight. Every single one of those just screamed "Pick me and your run will go _measurably_ better next time." That's really impressive.

Mindustry seems more accurate than factorio as you build with resources rather than make the buildings and things go back to a main hub to use them

Watching you play this made my brain hurt

holy pickles that music is loud

this looks interesting! not my thing though, at least until they add a pause button lol

Neat idea. Inspired my next game jam project.

Saying you can't change target priorities while the instructions on how to change target priorities is on screen... also you've been calling building mode selection mode. Build mode has the grid.

i've watched a few of these lets play and im very interested to this game, i even have an idea for a tower. this tower is called "toy factory" and what it does is that it is a spawner tower, place it near the tracks and give it some resources and it will spawn toy bots out of wood to attack enemies

31:40 ya missed it

Thank you for showing this game to me!

oh the heartbreak in your voice when you realized you needed 3 crystals instead of one. I feel your pain. Also I think you were right, More catapults would have helped more than anything, most of the issue was the volume of enemies spawning more than the strength of single targets. TBH I also feel like the Ballista towers were hurting more than helping after a point. They fired too slow and only did bonus damage to armor, once an enemies armor was stripped the acorn towers had the same DPS for a much smaller cost.

Seeing you learn the mechanics with every new level, makes you really feel how it would be to play the game. Having no shortcuts is a really rough one, tho. I absolutely love the day and night cycle, combined with awesome music, it makes you really feel the stakes. They got that down really well! I also really like how it allows you to make it infinite if you just dont use the crystal to strip mine the whole map, assuming your industry planning works out. Having an option to switch between seeing ratios and seconds would be a godsend for people who failed maths in school.

Oh this game looks pretty well crafted I might need to try this

Wander not seeing the option to switch recipies and the fact a tutorial is "NEEDED" proves the game design of a separate select mode is hindering to the UX design.

i really enjoy the idea over all.

Do more of this. I love this.

end of video analysis 1:08:00 great commentary, appreciated

Man I'm gonna love this game

This looks like a pretty fun game!

Itd probably help if u put towers further from the one your protecting and use more of the faster shooting ones once the hoards start getting bigger

Spreading yourself out at the start seems inefficient compared to saturating a belt and then moving onto the next resource

I absolutely love the idea of Factory Building + TD, but unfortunately I haven't really seen a game that does it super well yet. In Mob Factory, the TD elements are essentially just the resource generation, as a "set it and forget it" kind of deal, and the gameplay is mostly focused on just the factory elements. There's not really much "risk" associated with the game, which absolutely has it's place, but does kind of minimize the TD aspect. Still, I really like that it gives you the freedom to find the most efficient (in both resources and time) way of killing mobs, and I *love* that the mob drops are the actual resources that you use in your factory. - This game on the other hand, kind of feels like it's hovering closer to "TD with tedious resource collection." It doesn't really appeal to the factory building mindset as much, with severe time constraints on building, and limited resources requiring you to rebuild huge chunks of your factory at a time, assuming you even have more resource nodes uncovered. When I played this I felt that expanding my factory was something I had to do to survive, and just threw buildings down with little regard for efficiency. I do appreciate that your resource production is limited by essentially how many mobs you've killed, and your mob-killing efficacy is dependent on your resource production, but you're kind of stuck into one speed of difficulty-scaling, and you either make it or you don't. It doesn't really give you that roguelite feeling of being able to get ahead of the curve if you play your cards right (and RNG favors you to get a good build going).

9:16 "I cant change it's targeting priorities but that's okay" On Screen Tutorial: If you select a tower in selection mode, you can view its strengths and change it's target priority to focus on specific enemies.: lmao

I would suggest that you clump the ressource gathering in the beginning, you can move them if the trees are done, that will let you gather faster with less belt... If you put up 3 wood gatherer with 1 combiner it cost less than having 3 gatherer seperated father since you save the belt etc having 3 stone joined together is a good way to save time too, the rock are long to exaust

I'm sorry to be rude, but at 33:45 it was very hard to watch Wanderbots lose with 600 lumber in his inventory. Acorn towers just cost 50 lumber each, so he could have just slapped down 12 more of them to help save himself. You don't need lumber for the catapult towers, just planks and stone.

I found a strengh tower in one round it had 4 tiles wich increased damage for the towers placed on the tiles. Its essentially a landmark powerup.

Next part of this game plz❤

In my humble opnion the game is great but it would be very fun if when you discover the enemy tower you could play something like age of war like. sending your minions against the other tower. But the game seems very fun! joining anything + factorio is amazing for me hahaha

You got really close! Good try!

Not even notification squad. lol

Weird. It shows a demo on steam but it just loads the same page with no download demo option.

Sawmill requires 45 and 1 lumberyard provides 30, 3 producers, into one combiner, into a splitter with 2 channels, with each having it's own sawmill

You should start reminding ppl to use you link to wish list games if we found em thru your channel

You seemed to have issues defending against 100% and 200% increased enemy spawn rates. The map was much more difficult at night "100% to 200%" and so much more difficult after some time the 2nd day "200% to 600%". So you either need more towers kiling enemies or higher damage for the few towers you have and add a few more to deal with the horde of monsters to focus on resource gathering that you wanted to do.

Reminds me more of mindustry

Weird, I can see the demo page when i search it on steam, but it just redirects to the store page D:

36:18 thats entierly due to your playstyle. When I played I did not spread my tree chopers out like you do so I often ran out of resources and had to relocate them in a hurry

It feels like, given you can move them, you can treat gatherers like Age of Empires villagers and throw as many of them around as possible.

Can't seem to download the Demo, brings me back to the normal "wishlist" store page. :(

I'm 43 minutes into the vid.. And I am thinking it's optimal to just survive one day then quit, you get 1 point per day so there is no point playing half a day if you are not sure you will make the full day? It should really be 1 point for day one then 1+2=3 points for day 2 then 1+2+3=6 points for day 3 and so on. Am I wrong?

How do I get access to the demo?

really cool

The destruction of the enemy base is kinda lame. I think a better option would be that once you find the Crystal Tower... rather than just nuking the enemy base with a big crystal... you get access to building a light crystal tower that you can build within range of the enemy base to destroy it over time. Their base can have a lot of HP, but the more crystal towers you have attacking the enemy base, the quicker you can take it out. More fun & challenging, IMHO.

Makes sense, edit, just needs rogue like

Demo doesn't appear to be available anymore :'(

Mindustry

Wander have you seen anything about PokeRogue?

The middle for me taste is The Riftbraker

The bonefire system is rly a downer for me.

Awake at 1 AM squad. 🗿

Not to be just negative engagement, but during last run, why not build bonfires behind your base? You could've find closer resources so that you could still utilize all three spots and probably would've found another light crystal there, though I'm not sure how easily it would've been despite the proximity in the tutorial level.

How do you delete towers wtf. Delete button don’t do anything???

you should try minedustry

You missed it

This game is way too freaking hard. The dev or dev's made this game too hard on the first level. Why would I spend my money on a game that doesn't even allow the player time to get a base up and running before the enemies come out and they are so fast to.

Try spamming ecorn towers. You head 500+ wood at one point.

Did he said meta coin how much are they and where can i invest 📝👀 im jk

Issue was no fkn acorn towers.😂😂😂 they cheap spam them.

looks fun but your tower placement is terrible lol.

This isn't relaxing at all. It's stressful, and perhaps it's meant to be, but I'd prefer a more relaxed mode, or atleast an easier start! Every RU-vidr one seen play this game dies very early on.

roguelite ruined this game

He sucks at this game..