Factory Farming (Playdate)

Factory Farming Cultivation meets Automation

Factory Farming is an Automation & Logistics game themed around intensive agricultural practices!

Build up an expansive industrial complex by growing, harvesting, refining and manufacturing a wide variety of highly-processed products, and sell it all for a massive profit.  

Factory Farming features:

• 15 different crops to cultivate, with differing soil & water needs.
• 6 different growing biomes.
• Conveyor belt system to transport items and automate the complex, including:
  • Two and three-way splitters.
  • Item filters.
  • Underground conveyors.
  • Speed upgrade.
• 6 crop harvesters & other exploiters-of-nature, used to extract raw resources from the earth.
• 36 different factories in which to refine and manufacture a vast array of different end-products.
• 11 unlockable utility items. Storage chests, paths, placeable signs, and more.
• In-game tutorial, guiding your through the setup of your first factory.
• Crank controls! Crank to zoom, to rotate, to resize and to follow conveyors (non-crank alternatives provided too). 
• Two zoom levels, get a close-up view of your factory. 
• Complete with music, sound effects and in-game customisable settings.
• Full Save & Load system, with customisable Auto-Save time, and access to three save slots.
• Long playtime. Expect to spend at least 25 hours with your factory if you want to unlock every building in the game!

For much more information on the game, the controls and how to play, check out the Community Wiki.

Also consider checking out my other Playdate game: You Cannot Go Back!

Build & Performance Information

Factory Farming was written specifically for Playdate hardware in pure C code in order to extract the maximum performance out of the tiny little system. The game uses a chunk system to manage the simulation of huge factories in real time.

Factory Farming's simulation performance has been check on the Playdate hardware using a test factory with a total of 6,300 buildings, crops and conveyor belts, and with 3,000 pieces of cargo moving around the facility on conveyor belts at any one time. Factories cannot grow very much larger than this due to the limited plot size.

Moving around regions of a factory with lots of cargo in motion on conveyor belts can cause the framerate to dip. This can be fixed by zooming in, which reduces the number of sprites which need to be rendered. Enable "Auto Zoom-In When Moving" from the settings menu to automate this.

The latest version of Factory Farming (V1.0) is available for Playdate devices and the Playdate Linux Simulator (Compiled using: Ubuntu Linux, x86_64).

Regular and NoMusic builds are available, the only difference is that the NoMusic build does not come bundled with a music folder in the pdx. This results in a substantially smaller download (390 KB instead of 19.5 MB). 

This game can be Side Loaded onto the Playdate - see how to do this here.

This is a MIT licensed open source project, the full source is available on GitHub.

Asset Credits

With thanks to the following creators for releasing great assets under permissive licences!

• Music
  • Dr Tikov: 1985 (8 Bit Chiptune Mix) [CC BY 3.0] 
  • BoxCat Games: B-3 [CC BY 3.0] 
  • Eric Skiff: We're the Resistors [CC BY 3.0] 
  • RoccoW: Sweet Self Satisfaction [CC BY-SA 4.0] 
  • RoccoW: Weeklybeats 2014 #4 - All Will Be Well [CC BY-SA 4.0] 
  • Soft & Furious: Horizon Ending [CC0 1.0] 
• Art
  • Kenney: 1-Bit Pack [CC0 1.0] 
  • VectorPixelStar: 1-Bit Patterns [CC BY-SA 4.0]
    
  • Varkalandar: Assorted Isometric Rocks [CC BY-SA 4.0] 
    
  • ScratchIO: Farming Set (Pixel-Art) [CC0 1.0]  
  • josehzz: Farming crops 16x16 [CC0 1.0]
  • withthelove: Tiny 16: Expanded Character Sprites [OGA BY 3.0]
  • InThePixel: Fantastic Fence 16x16 [CC0 1.0]  
  • DinosoftLab: New icon from the Noun Project [CC BY 3.0] 
  • Shepardskin: House sets [CC0 1.0] 
• Fonts
  • Chester Jenkins: Cooper Hewitt [OFL 1.1u3] 
  • Martin Vacha: Roobert [Playdate Fonts licenced under CC BY 4.0] 
  • Mediengestaltung: Messing Lettern [1001Fonts FFC]
  • Mediengestaltung: Coventry Garden [1001Fonts FFC] 
• Sound Effects
  • sfxr.me