Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair – Alternate Level States
On your quest to defeat Capital B, you’ll discover secrets and solve puzzles in the overworld to unlock alternate level states!
Spark some change by hooking up electricity, flood chapters with running water or literally flip them upside down for radically altered challenges!
Check out the brand new trailer below…
https://youtu.be/Yfk72Js6rTE
Team17 x PlayTonic Games Livestream
Join us at 3pm BST / 7am PDT on Thursday 25th July for a Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair livestream! We’ll be showing off some of the alternate level states and have some of the dev team with us to answer your questions!
Welcome to Automachef, the kitchen designing, robotic machinery programming resource management puzzler!
We’re incredibly excited to be launching today and wholeheartedly welcome you to the community.
Check out the launch trailer below to get a look at what we’re all about:
https://youtu.be/sJMCSfFdd9g
Key Features
What can you get up to in Automachef? Allow us to elaborate below…
Design and build automated restaurants and then program them to run as efficiently as possible!
Take on challenging puzzles and scenarios that have multiple solutions using a combination of spatial awareness, resource management and problem-solving skills.
Play three different modes! Take on the story levels in Campaign, create and sell blueprints to the business world in Contracts Mode, or just go nuts and bolts in our Sandbox Test Mode and play until you’re full!
Take advantage of Automachef’s Steam Workshop support to create new scenario levels, ingredients and recipes and share them with the world!
Launch Stream – Come Say hi!
As part of our launch day, we’re streaming live over on our Steam Store page at 7.15pm BST / 11:15am PT / 2:15pm ET!
We’ll be streaming for an hour and a half, so feel free to stop by here and say hi!
Supporting the community!
We’re looking forward to seeing our players come together, sharing build ideas, playing each-other’s workshop creations and just generally chatting all things Automachef.
To aid with this we’ve just opened a shiny new Discord server for the game, to give you a social space to talk robotic kitchens alongside Steam. Both Team17 and Hermes Interactive will make time to be there too, so if you fancy a chat feel free to join the server.
You can also find us on the Automachef Twitter and Facebook pages!
That’s enough talking for now, lets go make some robotic fast food kitchens!
Launch Week Discount!
For the first week of launch you can get Automachef at a 10% discount!
Welcome to our fourth serving of Kitchen Confidential! As humans and definitely not robots, we love efficiency! But what is efficiency in Automachef and how can you make sure you’re always operating at 100% and maximising your profit margins?
Maximum Efficiency!
In the kitchen, efficiency is a metric between 1% and 100% that’s calculated on both ingredient and energy usage. In order to reach the glorious upper echelons of 80% - 100% you’ll need to use the exact amount of ingredients and as little energy as possible to finisher all of your customer’s orders.
In Campaign mode you won’t have to be too concerned about maintaining a high efficiency, but management will certainly appreciate it if you do! Contracts Mode is a different story, some of the more challenging contracts will offer greater rewards the higher your efficiency percentage. After all, what clients would want to buy a wasteful kitchen!?
Tips for the top!
Use the minimum amount of machines
There’s little point in having overly long conveyer belts snaking around the kitchen when a more compact layout would normally be more efficient. We do concede that having a giant conveyer belt is pretty cool though.
If you’re not using it, turn it off
You can dramatically reduce your energy waste by only turning high-power machines on when they’re needed. Why have a 3,000 watt electric grill running when there’s no burgers on it?! If your kitchen isn’t overly busy you can even set machines into a ‘power saving mode’ to be even more economical! Just don’t forget to turn that mode off when things get busy…
Only dispense the ingredients that are needed
Time to become best friends with your Order Readers! These fine machines can be commanded to only spawn new ingredients when an order is placed, rather than rapid firing out cheese every two seconds.
The timing of your dispensers is key here. Making sure they line up with your ingredient ratios used in a given recipe is a very good idea. One example of this is preparing a meal that required two slices of bread but only one tomato, in this case you’d need to set up a ‘time between ingredients’ so that the tomato dispenser is twice that of the bread slice dispenser.
Go forth and be thrifty!
That wraps up our introduction to efficiency in Automachef. We hope this helps you make the finest energy saving kitchens the land of fast food has ever seen!
But if you do want to make a monstrous spaghetti like conveyer belt now and again, we really don’t blame you as it is rather fun.
Automachef is launching July 23rd, you can Wishlist us and play the free demo below:
Welcome to our third Kitchen Confidential! To wrap up the week we’re going to be explaining the Steam Workshop support that’ll be coming to Automachef when it launches on July 23rd!
When deciding how to implement Steam Workshop support we focused on empowering our community to create and share amazing, fun and challenging content with other players.
This led us to create three different ways for players to utilise the Workshop with Automachef: Scenarios, Test Sites and Mods…
Power to the player!
Scenarios
Using our built-in scenario editor you’ll be able to create your very own levels for the game in a breeze! From the level objectives and what’s on the menu, to the environment that’ll be played in, you’ll have full control.
If you’re thinking of creating incredibly tricky or devious levels, just know you’ll have to play and successfully complete it before you’ll be able to upload it to the Steam Workshop!
Test Sites
Add together infinite funds, every recipe and machine plus a whole lot of space and you’ve got the Test Site. Create your most impressive, mind bending or hilarious kitchens here and upload them to the Steam Workshop to share with the community!
Dazzle them with your 100% totally human abilities.
Mods
Is there a specific meal or ingredient not in the game that you feel should be?
Do you think that our existing dishes are too easy to prepare?
Do you want to live the millenial dream and put avocado on every recipe?
If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then you’re going to love our mod support for Automachef!
All Steam players will be able to download the Automachef SDK and create their own ingredients and recipes for the game. But wait, it gets better! We firmly believe that sharing is caring, so you’ll be able to upload your creations to the Steam Workshop for other players to use, as well as downloading their mods to use in your own kitchen too.
The possibilities are endless!
Food for thought!
That wraps up our introduction to how Steam Workshop will be implemented in Automachef, we’re excited to see what you all create come July 23rd!
Now all you have to do is decide what you want to create...
Wishlist Automachef on Steam & play the free demo:
Welcome to the second Kitchen confidential! This time we’re taking a look at how ‘Blueprints’ play a role in Automachef and the ways in which they can be implemented by our players.
Blueprints - Taking your creations forward!
Picture the scene: You’ve just created a wondrous kitchen, comprising of multiple machines all working in unison, programmed to perfection! But wait, you’ve just finished the level, will your hard work go to waste as you’re forced to start anew in the next kitchen?
NO!
Blueprints will allow you to save copies of an individual machine, groups of machines and complex (or simple) set-ups to use in the level you created them in and beyond in other stages and modes. The best bit? Blueprints not only save the layout of your machines but also their settings, connections and cables!
When used correctly this is a game changer, allowing you to not only save time in later levels, but innovate on your previous builds and create signature set-ups as perfect your tried and tested designs as you progress through the game.
Making your Blueprints
Like what you see and want to turn it into a Blueprint? All you’ll need to do is head to the Blueprints tab in the Parts list and select “New Blueprint”.
You’ll then be able to draw a marquee around any of the machines you’d like to include in your new Blueprint or simply click on them! Once everything you want added is selected just press ENTER and name your new blueprint.
Once that’s done, you’ll be able to immediately apply it to your kitchens both present and future.
Useful info: Saved blueprints can be used in any other levels and modes, however they’re only usable if all the individual machines within the blueprint are available in that specific level.
Second serving
Now you know the important bits about creating Blueprints you’ll be in a good position come July 23rd!
We’ll be releasing another Kitchen Confidential later this week where we’ll be revealing more details about our Steam Workshop integration, as well as how you’ll be able to further build upon your Automachef experience!
Want to play Automachef right now? You can play the free demo and Wishlist us right here:
You can also follow Automachef on Twitter for all things automated kitchens, the latest news and more!
Kitchen Confidential #1 - Disasters!
Hello fellow humans,
Welcome to our very first Kitchen Confidential post! We’ll be posting these on a weekly basis to give you a behind the counter look at all things Automachef, from key gameplay features and mechanics, to individual machines and more!
To kick things off we’re taking a look at what can go wrong in your kitchens and the various machines at your disposal to tackle any issues that arise…
Kitchen Nightmares
Despite your best laid plans bad things can still happen to your kitchen, sorry!
What could happen depends on the environments and circumstances that you’re playing under - so keep that in mind.
When disaster strikes it’ll fall into one of three categories:
Fires
Machine Breakdowns
Infestations
Whilst there are disaster-response machines available for you to install in your kitchen, a more efficient approach is trying to adopt a prevention over cure kitchen layout when possible.
Fires
Fires will erupt in your kitchen if you allow food to remain on a Grill or in a Fryer for too long without being picked up. Naturally, this is bad not only for your machine but also for the quality of your food - but it doesn’t stop there, unless extinguished the fire will spread through adjacent machines and ravage your whole kitchen.
Luckily for you, there’s two options for combating fires:
1. The Sprinkler - Inexpensive and covers a wide area, but ruins any food affected by it.
2. Extinguisher Robot Arm - Expensive but doesn’t ruin food, but only has a 1 tile range.
That burger's looking a bit on the well-done side...
And the machine is on fire!
To save even more money and power, we recommend not setting fire to your machines.
Machine Breakdowns
Breakdowns occur when you put your machines under too much strain in a short space of time. This is done by manually increasing the machine’s output to high-speed or overloading its capacity.
Once a machine breaks down it won’t start again unless it’s repaired, this is achieved by placing a Mechanic machine in close proximity to any machines that you feel could breakdown during a particularly busy kitchen period. A careful balance when it comes to machine speeds and load will help stop breakdowns, but having a backup is never a bad idea!
Infestations
Leaving your food stationary in the kitchen for too long will attract some unwanted guests…
Insects will be attracted to your not so fast food and begin to spread through your kitchen looking for food to sink their teeth into. Even ingredients and completed dishes kept in a Storage Unit are fair game for insect attack, but there’s a lower chance that they’ll discover them.
To avoid a visit from insects, always keep your dishes moving and don’t let them stack up anywhere for longer than absolutely necessary.
First course!
That pretty much wraps up our first Kitchen Confidential! Let us know if you liked it and what you’d like to us to talk about in upcoming posts in the comments below - thanks!
Want to play Automachef right now? You can play the free demo and Wishlist us right here:
You can also follow Automachef on Twitter for all things automated kitchens, the latest news and more!
Automachef Launches 23rd July & Free Demo!
Hello fellow humans!
Today we’re very excited to announce that Automachef will be launching on Steam on 23rd July this year!
To mark the occasion we’ve just released a new trailer from your very human friend, Robert Person:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPWcPwHypA&feature=youtu.be
Get ready to take over the world… Of automated kitchens.
Free Demo!
You can try your skill at building an automated kitchen empire RIGHT NOW with the free Steam demo. Dive into two tutorial levels before taking on three early campaign levels here.
Let us know how you get on over in the forums!
Announcement Livestream!
To celebrate today’s announcement we’re hosting a Automachef Livestream featuring both Team17 and YouTuber The Geek Cupboard!
Full times and details can be found below:
You’ll be able to watch us live and ask your questions live on our Steam Store page HERE.
To keep up to speed with all things Automachef, you can follow us on Twitter and Wishlist us on Steam to give us positive human emotions!
With E3 approaching and Hell Let Loose releasing on the 6th of June, it’s fair to say that Team17 has a very busy week ahead! In fact, next week we’ll be unveiling not just one but TWO BRAND NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENTS!
You’re not going to want to miss these announcements, and we really can’t wait to share the trailers with you. To ensure that you’re the first to hear about these new games right here on Steam, make sure to follow the Team17 Publisher Page.
In the meantime, you can find a couple of cryptic clues in the image above, and if you hop over to the Team17 Twitter account, make your predictions, follow and re-tweet then you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win a copy of these two games, and Hell Let Loose, upon release!
Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you next week!
Developer Livestream - Thursday 16th May!
Hello fellow humans!
Today we’re excited to share that we’ll be hosting Automachef's first developer livestream tomorrow!
Stream Details
Date: Thursday 16th May
Time: 2pm BST / 3pm CEST / 9am ET
Location: Automachef Steam Page
What's in store for those that tune in?
A first look at the start of the game as we begin our kitchen puzzle adventure!
An in-depth explanation of the game’s core mechanic.
An introduction to Robert Person, the definitely human manager who will guide you through the game.
Viewer questions answered live on stream.
The team hopefully not burning down the kitchen trying to create elaborate burgers and other delicious fast food.
Automachef will be launching on Steam in Summer 2019!
If you'd like to keep up to speed with all things Automachef feel free to drop us a Wishlist, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!
We look forward to chatting with you on our first stream.
Welcome to Automachef!
Welcome to the culinary world of Automachef!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKLgUPJF9PE
What’s Automachef all about?
Automachef is a resource management puzzler where as a new manager you’ll design kitchens, program machinery and watch your hard work (and genius) come to life!
The time has come to engineer the kitchens of tomorrow, today!
What challenges do players face?
First and foremost, you’ll be designing and building automated restaurants of varying size and scale to satisfy the hunger based needs of your customers.
Not only do you have to construct your kitchens, but you’ll also need to program them!
This means that you’ll be dealing with intricate spatial, scenario and resource management-based puzzles. Oh and try not to burn the kitchen down in the process…
How many modes are there?
Automachef will launch with three different modes:
Campaign: Rise through the restaurant ranks in this challenging story mode. Go from restaurant to restaurant, building your fast food empire in increasingly puzzling scenarios.
Contracts mode: Take a step back from the restaurant floor and instead design money saving kitchen blueprints from clients in the business world. Can your designs bring in riches?
Sandbox Test mode: Practice your builds and designs for use in Campaign and Contracts Mode or spend some time building the kitchen of your wildest dreams, the choice is yours in this free-play mode!
Who’s that robotic looking guy?
That “robotic looking guy” is the protagonist of our story and your mentor, Robert Person. Robert is 100% definitely a human. Don’t ask questions.
Lets get cooking!
Automachef will launch on Steam in Summer 2019. Once we’ve locked in a finalised release date we’ll let you all know!
In the meantime you can keep up to speed with all things Automachef by Wishlisting us on Steam:
