I love the graphic style! Very impressive game. I think a chill soundtrack could add even more to the overall experience.

Very good idea, art style looks great too.

Great game! nice art style and a fun concept. It does slow down a considerable amount when you hit the 4th island, however.

This game is nice to play but its a challange not only for player but also PC.
It burns my pc like some witcher 3 on hight settings....

Amazing game! Super cool way to make a micro "factorio".

Making the first few items was cool, Visually very pleasing VERY COOL missing some sounds but hey i didnt even add any so 48 houers am i right.

I give it 19 :clap:s

Great work! The art is really clean, and the gameplay was very reminiscent of factorio, well done.

I thought I had beat all the challenges but now realize I had forgotten stone. By that point I already left the game DX. If it makes it any better, I did all the smelting on the final island :P.

Wow, nicely done, guys! I was a little afraid that conveyors would be hard to figure out, but now I see that I was wrong and you are absolutely killing it!

@rustycrow @cameronpenner extra thanks for screenshots! It is really cool to see what other people can create in your game!

I am a sucker for these kind of games. I like the art style and it's realy cool that you can automate stuff. But the game realy missed sounds and some UI elements when you picked up something would have been nice, but I guess there wasn't time for that.

Very nice working simulation, great graphics, I love it! Unfortunately, I didn't read the challenge until after I closed the program, so no luck with additional screenshots ;-)

Behavior of the conveyor belts is sometimes unintuitive, you cannot position one rotated by 90 degrees next to a producer, but you can next to another conveyor belt. That, of course, makes the positioning harder, so it can be considered a game challenge.

Great entry for the compo! We are loving the low poly graphics. We believe that the game would benefit from some specific challenges or enemies to be on the lookout for.

I really like these types of games, and this is a brilliant entry for something made in a weekend. It's a shame there isn't any music for the game, and the sound effects are a bit lacking, I otherwise had a great time with this, and I'll be keeping it around to play it again later.

The art is really consistent and nice. I don't understand the appeal of making the player spend so much time waiting though...

Thanks for feedback guys!

@toboggan I didn't design this game to be slow and boring, quite opossite, actually. Gathering resources with your bare hands is quite slow, sure, but you can craft stone tools in first two minutes of playing. Then next slow process is creating iron ingots, but you can place 2 furnaces and it become quite fast. In the next 10-15 minutes you can automate iron creation completelly. It may be considered as a lot of time in contrast with other games which can be fully completed in 10 minutes, but hey, normal games are a lot longer then this.

After watching some streamers play my game I can agree with you that gameplay can be a bit boring for some people, who are not used to games of this genre. This is because my game lacks a tutorial and some players go slow and boring way - just collecting everything by hand. It is much more fun if you create automatic iron production on third island. With this iron supply you can then craft more machinery to automate all resources collection.

That is the reason I have written a challenge list in the game description, the game should be fun if you try to complete it. Of course the game is boring if you just create a lot of ingots without automation, just placing ore and coal into furnace manually and unlock all islands.

amazing graphics

Great art work, I like the level design as well, seems to be more fast-paced than strategy. Im pretty bad with these resource management and crafting games but managed to make some stuffs in the game. Great work!!

Well it looks amazing, good job on the art! I had a great time playing. Amazing work for just a weekend.

Neat graphics and some cool game mechanics. Good to see a game with so much to do!

I was lazy to mine so I just put my phone on the mouse :P

Thank you for sharing your game with me. I played it on my stream tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames

I have rated your game, but all of my feedback was captured in the stream.

You can hear my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298329090

@jima I put a thread out offering honest and harsh feedback, and you asked for it, so here it is!

First off, I like this game. I haven't really played much in this type of genre, but I could see myself really getting behind this idea if you made it into a larger scale game. I like the concept, but I think there needs to be more reward for accomplishing these tasks. It's great that I can mine faster and more efficiently, but the upgrades I can make with them don't feel worth it to me.. I don't get more excited about mining with the abilities to mine better.

I did actually rate your game really highly though, you know it's missing sound FX, tutorial, and I think I saw in the comments the issues about how much CPU it sucks up.... but the artwork, I gave a solid 5. I don't think you have to spend anymore time working on it, that style really does work... I'd instead focus on animations. Things like the furnace that you have to wait for could use some kind of notification that it's finished it's work and ready for pickup.

Falling off the island wasn't a real concern, but I'm not sure why it's in the game if it doesn't punish the player... I actually used it as a way to get back to the wood quicker! I think the last critique is perhaps a way to "automine" with the mouse like @fenderbate said, I don't mind waiting for the mouse to do it's thing, but I don't like holding the mouse done while it does it.

All in all, this is a great ludum dare entry, I think you'll do really well! If you want to make it a full game, just focus on some over arching goal, and keep building on your original concept. Great work!

@grahhhhhhhhh Thanks man, your feedback is actually really helpful!

Yeah, you are right, furnace has no indication of what is inside and it is really inconvenient.

Falling of the island was made at the last moment, at first you were falling infinitely, which is really bad. So I added a quick workaround.

Manual resource gathering is boring, I agree, I should have focused more on automation. I think I should have made auto miner an really early craft and add an inventory to it. So you just place it at the beginning of the game and then just collect what it gathered.

Nice graphics! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 42 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/pT1wbP1q_Ao

Jumping resources -- pretty neat idea.
I've done the hard challenge, but it took a while:

https://youtu.be/qs-GwGrfOeA

Its amazing how you managed to make so much in such a short period of time, this game has a lot of complexity and is really well done. One can play this for hours. Wish I can make such games one day in a next possible ludum dare =)

Thanks guys!

@icxon huge thanks for a video, it is really cool to see other people play your game a correct way! Especially when your game is as confusing as this one. I see that you had some problems with autominer but you absolutelly nailed it! Unfortunatelly a had no time to properly playtest my game and to add more hints and improve tutorial, I literally haven't played my game properly before I published it.

@velvetlobster that actually was my goal, I was trying to made a game which can be played for at least one hour, that is why I went with a sandbox genre. And I am more than happy with the result!

Fantastic game. Reminds me of MineCraft mod and Factorio. Love the visuals! GJ!

I loved the concept of little management game! The minimalist graphic style really pleased me and fits well with the atmosphere of the game! I think with a little more feedback this game would be even better! Great job! :)

By the way please feel free to leave us some feedbacks on our game!

Hey! Loved the game, I really like how the resource collection system functions, how it's needed to have an smart usage of the small space, being able to automate everything and variety of tools you can use, it's incredible to know you only had 48 hours to make this game and made such a masterpiece! Also, I've finished the challenge, here is my islands collection:

Dude huge respect to made this as compo entry. This will be my study material for a while.

I really wanted to like this, but I'm just so impatient and those collect times were too slow for me sorry :/ Looks cool though.

This game was so much fun, I can't believe you made this in 48 hours! I couldn't stop playing (although I didn't complete the hard challenge) but I had tons of fun building up some automation. It was a bit difficult to get a grasp of at first but it was amazing overall. Thanks for this great entry and I look forward to seeing it develop in the future, maybe even into a full game!

I actually ended up finishing the hard challenge, here's a pic. 

@saurabh @ultrabi Wow, you two are killing it! Huge thanks for doing challenges and posting screenshots! I am really glad that you enjoyed my game

great game! i love the 3d art style and mood...

Fun game! Took a while to get the conveyers to work (and are the launcher things meant to turn into conveyers when you break them?), but it was really enjoyable and the art style was amazing - a real feat in 48 hours, although the game did kill my potato laptop a little :P. Great job!