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I'm a late (mostly self) diagnosed autistic in recovery from autistic burnout. In spring 2024 I left a career at Apple Retail and have been finding myself since. I'm deeply passionate about and experienced with Apple tech. I also love Sci-Fi and Fantasy, mostly TV and movies these days. I'm a gamer, mostly playing on Mac, iPad, and Switch. I was once a software engineer and still pursue it as a hobby, mostly developing small projects for the Apple ecosystem in Swift.

Got a conveyer built long enough that it takes five minutes for the "delivered" graph to catch up with the "produced" graph.

The #Shapez achievement is "I need trains" which yeah I can see that.

(played the Shapez2 demo yesterday and that had me itching for time with the old-school-but-finished version)

Prototyping a factory automation game with #clojurescript just to see if I can actually make something fun.

Also largely thinking of #shapez.io and #factorio as I tinker with this.

This little video shows some basic working things like belts (grey) and grabbers (blue).

I need to come up with elements to make this actually fun and challenging. I need a goal product and interesting resources as well as more machine mechanics. Lots to think about and prototype, but this is an exciting step!

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Next, I played #WordFactori, which originally saw the light of day as an entry for the #GMTKJam 2021 and is now fleshed out into a full game. If you like managing and optimizing supply chains in games like #shapez, #OpusMagnum or #Factorio, you’ll probably have your fair share of fun with this. That being said, the main gimmick (you’re crafting letters of the alphabet) doesn’t shake things up enough for me to warrant a recommendation over any of the aforementioned titles.