middenmoon

Devlog

• Logistic monorails
  June 18, 2025 by dorfl

  Build A250618 heads-up -- the change log mentions this, but to call it out: Monorail towers no longer have names, and instead have logistic item requests. They are also modal: passive mode, just a tra... Continue reading

  
• Belt decisions
  June 03, 2025 by dorfl

  Belts in the game are intended to be fast and flexible. There are no inserter-like entities and machines don't have designated input/output ports, so some early decisions were made. Belts should: auto... Continue reading

  
• Less rough game design
  May 31, 2025 by dorfl

  A previous post described three phases of game play. Phases 1 and 2 remain largely the same. Phase 3 is discussed in this post, along with general design refinement. NOTE! This post describes changes... Continue reading

  
• LAN and WiFi
  May 21, 2025 by dorfl

  LAN and WiFi networks are groups of connected entities that send and receive signals consisting of key:value pairs. Keys may be any text string, including internal item names. Values are integers. Con... Continue reading

  
• Control Panels
  May 17, 2025 by dorfl

  The current experiment is an entity called a Control Panel which: Can monitor and adjust config of adjacent entities Runs a Lua script that may be chosen on the fly The first use case was adjusting Mo... Continue reading

  
• Upgrades
  May 07, 2025 by dorfl

  Been working on the game upgrades panel. It's a common approach for this style of game: give the player the option to spend any excess resources delivered to the Hub on factory upgrades, most of which... Continue reading

  
• Crossing beams
  May 02, 2025 by dorfl

  Energy beam basics A quick rundown on the energy beams first. The game uses colored energy beams to power stuff instead of electricity. Around the moon are ancient crystal sites where Beam Emitters ma... Continue reading

  
• Messing with Monorails
  April 30, 2025 by dorfl

  Besides belts, Monorails will be the other logistics mechanism, unlocking after the first AI Candle goal. The working design is something like a simplified combination of Factorio trains and Satisfact... Continue reading

  
• Rough game design
  April 23, 2025 by dorfl

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  The game is about excavation of old tech, washing/sorting, disassembly, handling sushi belts, recovery of components, and finally reconstruction. Those tasks will roughly fit into 3 tiers -- not hard... Continue reading