automation game
The Formation and Transition of the Game Genre of Automation | Watsushirogu
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Formation and Transition of Automated Gaming
Minecraft
Minecraft 1.2.5 + industrialization mod
Factorio
Factory Town
Autonauts
We were talking about the Dyson Sphere Program.
Is it similar to the Mycla industrialization mod?" This article appeared in the "nishio.iconI think the flow of history is "Mycla industrialization mod" -> Factorio -> birth of many Factorio-type games (including Satisfactory) -> Dyson Sphere Program".
Factorio was created to get around the limitations of the Minecraft industrialization mod
Other games discussed
Mindustry
Oxygen not included(ONI)
shapez.io
No Man's Sky
SpaceChem(Zachtronics)
Infinifactory
SHENZHEN I/O
TIS-100
Opus Magnum
nishio.iconDyson Sphere Program is more like Satisfactory than [ONI
ONI doesn't have a character of its own.
Notation shaking: factory game.
You often automate factories.
Games like Autonauts or ? a game that looks like a Pokemon parody] automate agents that move around instead of automating fixed factory facilities.
Fixed equipment and agents that move around between them.
Factorio has no agents to move around (until there are transport drones).
Oxygen Not Included and Ratopia are both present.
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