Instructions

Toggle the interface by tapping m or space.

The simple way to play, is to press space/m and click each building and place it by clicking. The alternative hotkeys are below.

TO DELETE A STRUCTURE: Hold Z and click. This also works on belts, as well as clicking and dragging across the belt.

Hydrogen is green, Carbon is red, and Oxygen is blue.

It is WASD to move your character (the large dot)

press '.' to stop the music and ' ;' to turn it back on

VGBN + click to place conveyer belts (these are used to harvest resources too)

You can click and drag to place belts quickly. 

To build an assembler,  hold E + click for ethanol, or T + click for Carbon dioxide, H + click for water, C+ click for citric acid, Y + click for Ethylene, and X + click for glucose. There is also the special 'Cup' assembler which simply checks your score, and is the victory condition. To build the cup, hold F and click. 

To place a mechanical arm, hold R + click. The arm has an input and output directions as indicated by the red and green lines at its base. Red is input, green is output. To adjust the angle of the input and output, use IJKL.  Once another structure is built (Arm, or assembler) the arm will no longer be adjustable, in order to adjust an arm in that position, delete the first one and place a new one.  To shorten and lengthen the arm you are adjusting use 'U' and 'O' respectively.

Assemblers make use of the resources inside of them to construct the molecule they make. For example a water assembler takes two hydrogen and one oxygen to make one water. 

Hydrogen + Carbon = Ethylene [Y] {Yellow}
Hydrogen + Oxygen = Water [H] {Cyan}
Carbon + Oxygen = Carbon Dioxide [T] {Magenta}
Ethylene + Carbon dioxide = Glucose [X] {White}
Ethylene + Water = Ethanol (alcohol )  [E] {Chartreuse}
Carbon Dioxide + Water = Citric Acid [C] {Orange}

Holding the '/' (forward slash) key can be used to place teleporting transporters. Teleporters move particles back and forth and can be unloaded with arms or a conveyer belt.


StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorPricklyPearGames
GenrePuzzle
Tags2D, chemistry, factory, Management, Minimalist, Relaxing, Sci-fi, Short, Singleplayer

Comments

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

interesting game, main bug i found was that the mechanical arms seemed to sometimes randomly get shorter or longer

I can't place assemblers and can only place belts when I click and hold while moving.

Weird glitch. I was given a starting board with no carbon and couldn't make progress. Might wanna look at the algo that creates the initial state of the game.

Whoa no carbon at all? That's crazy, I'll take a look.

IAM STUCK I CANT MOVE

I apologize,  you may have pressed caps lock. I will fix this as soon as possible!

ok thank you

Yes, it appears that having caps lock on was preventing the keys from being registered as input. This is now fixed, play with caps lock on if you so choose :)