I thought this game was well known but I haven’t seen almost any mentions of it recently. It’s very weird for a FOSS enthusiast not to advertise one of the best open-source games of all time so here I am trying to make it spoken about again.

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  • @grue
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    4 hours ago

    It looks like the “good enough” placeholder art that devs put in before they get around to hiring an actual artist. It’s serviceable to understand what things are and what’s happening, but there’s no style to it.

    • @[email protected]
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      124 hours ago

      I personally disagree, I really love the dramatic sprite style they’ve gone with. Everything’s so hyper industrial with lovely details when you zoom in.

      • @Rukthag
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        53 hours ago

        It’s also so wonderfully mechanical and smoothly animated. Might not hit for those that didn’t grow up with similar styles or something.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        23 hours ago

        It is my understanding that Factorio’s art is 3D modeled and rigged, and then 2D animation frames are captured from that so the game doesn’t have to actually render 10,000 inserters every tick.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 hour ago

          Ah that’s awesome, but now I’m wishing I could take a peak at the 3d versions running and explore them a bit.

          It would also explain why they all have the same visual vibe of the ancient dancing baby gif haha