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Continuous Factory
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About the game
Continuous Factory is a logistics puzzle dressed up as an old-fashioned office program, with grey windows, a "README" and a copyright line from 1993. Job folders come out of a yellow source on the board, and your task is to guide them to the green sink at the other end. On the way, each folder carries tasks that must be completed by passing it through monitors, and the folder is only delivered once all of its tasks are done.
You do it by building. In the build phase you place conveyor belts, monitors and other pieces taken from the panel on the right of the screen, rotating them to point the right way, and then press START to watch the factory run. If it works, you move on to the next level; if not, you reset and rethink. Later levels add gates that turn the folders, belts that reverse, crossings, shortcuts and misdirection, so layouts that worked early on stop working.
Playing it here
Continuous Factory was made for TIC-80, a fantasy console: an imaginary 1980s-style computer with a 240 by 136 screen and 16 colours, for which independent developers write new games. The team made it for Ludum Dare 53 in 2023, and this is version 1.1. It runs here in the official TIC-80 web player. Click Play, wait for the intro, click START on the title screen and again on the README. The game is played entirely with the mouse. Esc opens the TIC-80 menu. The game is in English.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Left click on a piece in the right-hand panel, then on the grid | place the piece |
| Left click on a placed piece | rotate it |
| Right click | remove a piece |
| Left click on START | run the factory |
| Left click on RESET | go back to building |
| Esc | TIC-80 menu |
A few things worth knowing
Start with the path. Run belts from the yellow source to the green sink first, and only then think about where the monitors fit along the way.
Count your pieces. The panel on the right shows how many of each piece you have in each level, and the folders waiting at the bottom show what is coming next, so a long detour can leave you without what you need.
Watch a run closely. If a folder gets stuck or lost, the run shows exactly where it went wrong, which is the best hint for fixing the layout.
Credits and licence
Continuous Factory was made by unicorns of DEATH for Ludum Dare 53. It is released under the MIT licence. The cartridge served here was built from the authors' text cartridge without changing any data. It runs here in the TIC-80 web player (MIT licence). The licence text is linked from this page.