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Genre: Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Learning Factory

The Automation Fest Is SuperWEIRD!!!



Hey everyone!

At last, we have lived up to the day, where automation games have their own event on Steam!

It is all good news for you, and us, and the whole world!

For one, Learning Factory is 27% off:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

But there is more good news! Super good news, in fact. Or should we say SuperWEIRD news?

Anyway, horrible puns apart, we're making a new co-op automation adventure game, and it has a Steam page, and you're very welcome to add it to your wishlist today:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818770/SuperWEIRD/

We even have a teaser trailer, that's how devoted we are:



For any further questions, find us in the comments and/or on our Discord server.

Some More Good News & Updates From the Devs



Hey everyone!

We hope that you're having a great Summer Sale, and your Steam library is full of awesome new games (again).

As for us, we've got some exciting news of our own! For one, while True: learn() is expected to become a part of exposition in a hi-tech museum in Antwerpen (that's in Belgium)

Craftomation 101, in turn, is getting a lift-up in the UI/UX department: we've hired professional designer to make the game shine, and she's doing an awesome job:





The next update for that game is just around the corner!

As for Learning Factory, it now comes with a controller support, which kind of makes it one of the friendliest factory-building games out there:



Last but not least: have you heard of our new games? One of them is called SuperWEIRD. It's a tower defense adventure with automation and some resource management, and it looks exacly as the name suggests:



So many games, huh? Are we allowed to wear game publisher hats now? Just kidding, we're still keeping things simple, with all games being done by less than 20 people. So we're still your friendly neighborhood indie devs, who will do their best to bring you tons of fun!

We'll get back to it now. Until we meet again!

P.S. We're also doing tons of videos on our YouTube channel these days, so there's no reason to not subscribe for it. See you there!

Update v1.1.8 - Bug fixes & Optimizations



v1.1.8 Changelog



UI, QoL & Texts



  • Optimizations
  • Сontroller improvements
  • Minor UI\UX fixes
  • UI improvements for SteamDeck
  • Texts update

Bug fixes



  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Trichouette)


Also, don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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Update v1.1.7 - A bag of fixes



v1.1.7 Changelog



UI, QoL & Texts



  • A lot of optimizations
  • A lot of Controller improvements
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • UI improvements for SteamDeck
  • Texts update
  • Texts update for SteamDeck
  • Texts update for Controllers
  • Added Devanagari font support
  • Added Bengali font support
  • Added Thai font support

Bug fixes



  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Eneri, zxion)


Also, don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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How to Get More Involved



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Update v1.1.6 - A bit of everything



v1.1.6 Changelog




Gameplay



  • Autobuild radius slightly increased
  • Cat Ark upgrades give more buildings for new Expeditions (xz215279)
  • 2 Upgrades for Telemanipulator

UI, QoL & Texts



  • A lot of Optimizations
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • You can hold Autofill key to autofill buildings (xz215279)
  • Many small Controller support improvements
  • Tutorials improved
  • Steamdeck UI improved

Bug fixes



  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to MustardSeedTales, sANDY, Yar1o, Eneri, xz215279)


Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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How to Get More Involved



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Update v1.1.5 - Improved Controller Support



v1.1.5 Changelog




Gameplay



  • Loyal cats give more random science based on their Loyalty Level
  • Fish Maker now has additional Terraforming research category
  • Added 2 new terraforming recipes to Fish Maker

Art



  • 2 more backgrounds for Researchers in the Lab

UI, QoL & Texts



  • New Tutorial about Item Archiver
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • More Controller Hotkeys
  • Many small Controller support improvements
  • Tutorials improved
  • Ruins Edtor slightly improved

Bug fixes



  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Алёна Счастье)


Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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How to Get More Involved



At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following:

Major Update v1.1 - Controller Support



v1.1.4 Changelog



Patch Highlight 1 - Full Controller Support



More hotkeys, more settings, supporting any controllers you want to use! Xbox and PS controllers have additional features.

Patch Highlight 2 - German and Korean voiceovers



Learning Factory now has an official German and Koran voiceovers made by Bastian Scheibe https://www.fiverr.com/bastiansvoice?source=inbox and Hyuk https://www.fiverr.com/h_hyuk?source=inbox


Gameplay



  • Mass purchases logic is changed
  • Upsale requests appear a bit later

Art



  • 4 more backgrounds for Researchers in the Lab

UI, QoL & Texts



  • Sound feedback is slightly improved
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • Copywriting for English and Russian
  • Tutorials improved
  • Community Localization for German is improved (Lady_whynot, Eneri, WolbaTV)
  • More hotrkeys for SteamDeck

Bug fixes & Tech



  • Optimization
  • Fixed bug with generation of cats with Mass Purchases (sANDY, Алёна Счастье, LoadRunner)
  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to xz215279, Алёна Счастье, LoadRunner,Mr. YA, sANDY, LoadRunner)


Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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How to Get More Involved



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Controller Beta - v1.0.3



v1.0.3 Changelog



Patch Highlight 1 - Controller Support (Beta)



Starting from this patch you 'technically' can play the game from start to finish using only controller! It won't be fully comfortable yet and we expect some bugs, so if you have any feedback about controller gameplay or bug reports share it with us in our Discord or right here. Thanks in advance!

Patch Highlight 2 - Portuguese-Brazilian voiceover



Learning Factory now has an official Portuguese-Brazilian voiceover made by native speaker Ramon M https://www.fiverr.com/ramongmaia?source=inbox

Gameplay



  • 4 new Legendary Cats
  • Water Tunnel unlock requirement reduced from 500 to 150
  • Water Tunnel research cost reduced from 500 to 250
  • 5 new Map Pin icons (Eneri)
  • New upgrade for Milk Drill to increase Milk production quantity
  • Zeppelins behavior slightly improved
  • More visual features for cats on transporters
  • Boutique inventory size increased
  • Box++ recipe with gold speed increased

Art



  • Hedges rerendered
  • Optic Cables art improved
  • Minor terrain improvements

UI, QoL & Texts



  • Tooltips improved
  • Warnings improved
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • Copywriting for English, Russian, and Chinese is improved
  • Community Localization for German is improved (Lady_whynot, Eneri, WolbaTV)

Bug fixes & Tech



  • Game engine updated
  • Optimization
  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Murzilka, Lucky, mimo_prohidil, eneri81, Pashtet, Alerto, s50114, EmberShadow, S'Kleer, Алёна Счастье, Frisby, Мята, Ferr)


Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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How to Get More Involved



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Dr Katz Reporting - About Voiceover



Hey!

We heard a lot of positive feedback about our voiceover! We are really happy about it and want you to meet our voice actors!

English



The Original. The Legend. Dr Katz originally is voiced by Ali Gohar. We made a lot of iterations to perfect the cat speech of mad scientists. The main reference for a character was Dock Brown from "Back to the Future" and various cartoon cats.

As a result, we got a great voiceover which Ali himself rated as "This is PURRRFECT!" after playing the game and we used his voice as a reference to all other languages.

Ali Gohar

  • https://www.fiverr.com/voiceoverali?source=inbox


Russian



So here we got a bit lucky twice. I have a few friends in "Maly Theatre" in Moscow and some of them recommended Artem Zatiev to us. He is not only a voice actor (agent ISO in Valorant for example) but also an actor in Theatre and Cinema.

And the second time we got lucky because we have a great character reference for all Russian speakers - "Matroskin the Cat" from "Three from Prostokvashino". This cartoon is not only famous but also beloved by all Russian people.

Artem Zatiev

  • https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/5818723/?ysclid=m7ad3h2n4g417603441&utm_referrer=yandex.ru
  • https://www.litres.ru/author/artem-zatiev/?ysclid=m7ad3yoc4z511927066
  • @art_zatiev in Instagram


Chinese



And with Chinese localization we also got lucky. The man behind the Chinese version of Dr Katz is a member of our team - Peter Weng. Peter has been working with us since While True Learn() and among other things he is the author of Chinese localization for both games. When we tried to find an actor for this role he volunteered and the result is great!

Brazilian-Portuguese



Hold on, this voice isn't in the game yet. At least not publicly available. But it is done and will be released next week. Sadly we can't add a sample to the news, but trust me, it will be glorious.

Ramon M

  • https://www.fiverr.com/ramongmaia?source=inbox


What next?



There is more? Yes! Korean and French localizations are being recorded and will be added in a patch or two. But that is not all, we are trying to find voice actors for German, Polish and Japanese, and some more!

Back to work engineers!

Hotfix v1.0.2

Bug Fixes


  • Minor bug fixes (Murzilka, Lucky)

    How to Get More Involved



    At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: