Mad Factory
Mad Factory is now AWARD WINNING!
We are very pleased and thoroughly excited to announce that Mad Factory has won an award.
We are the winner of the:
2018 Inaugural Infinity Film Festival Monolith Award for content, celebrating “Story Advanced by Technology!”
We also now display a lovely laurel on the store page.
As you can imagine we're extremely happy to receive this award. We knew our game had this potential and it's fantastic to see others agree.
Best
Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory Team
BAFTA Selection
The Third Floors Immersive team are very honoured to announce that Mad Factory was selected to be part of BAFTA's VR Showcase.
"This year’s VR showcase has been selected by BAFTA’s Immersive Entertainment Advisory Group. The mission of the group, among other things, is to educate the leaders and members of BAFTA about VR/AR/MR/XR experiences, and showcase outstanding work that moves the needle in the medium (narrative / storytelling, games etc).
The showcase is running across three dates at Digital Catapult: 2nd October, 9th October, 16th October."
It's a high accolade to be selected and brings a recognition to the game we feel it deserves.
Keep fulfilling those orders!
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Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory Team
Mad Factory Love
A short update to say thanks to maturemindedgamers for their play through of Mad Factory.
You can see and hear the fun they had here.
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Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory Team
Mad Factory Arcade Advertising
We're seeing a fantastic adoption of Mad Factory by the Retail/ VR Arcade sector! This was absolutely our goal and this subsequently directed many of our design decisions.
We have not just put the game out there and left it at that though. During a Pilot phase here in the UK, we formed some great, close relationships with Arcade owners and listened to how they market a title.
We correspondingly created a broad range of digital marketing assets from banners to badges, for use in Arcades in their front of house or on their game selection systems.
These are available to all Arcade owners and we invite you to get in touch so we can:
- Learn about you and your needs
- Provide you with the front of house marketing assets that work for you.
Please contact us via madfactory@thethirdfloorinc.com
Operators are standing by!
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Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory crew...
You've got orders to fill!
Every game is a labour of love for the team involved and this one is no exception.
Mad Factory started as a short playable demo, something to show of the interaction technology our Immersive team had developed. But there was a seed of a compelling game within this and the response we saw from players at the numerous shows and events we demoed at, told us we had to develop this to a releasable product. So we did, and here it is.
We're certain you'll have as much fun playing this as those who inspired us.
Can you play the perfect game?
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Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory team...
Steam Launch Date and Oculus Support
We have two important pieces of news today!
Firstly our Steam launch date is now set in stone.
It will be the 20th September, as in TOMORROW!
We've finally hit the point where this title can be released to the masses. It'll be on sale to the would be Factory workers AND will be available via a Steam Cybercafe license.
Once you have the game we'd love to hear your thoughts in the review section, and if you like it, please tell a friend.
Secondly we can now announce that Oculus support is included!
We've ironed out the last issues and so from tomorrow the game will launch with both Vive and Oculus support.
Phew! We're going to struggle to top this news.
That's all for now so we hope you enjoy the game and spread the word.
Best
Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory crew...
New Video! and more Curator love.
Today we've uploaded a fancy, new, mixed reality gameplay video.
If features several highly attractive people, playing Mad Factory and attempting to secure a position on the high score table.
More importantly it shows of the gameplay and the beautiful, 1950's sci-fi environment we've set it in.
We also want to thank the following Curators who have all given the game a Recommendation.
Much appreciated!
Indie-makes-you-happy
Mixer-Games
Indie Champions
Gaming Grandma
We love to hear that people are enjoying this game.
We're super close to our launch now so I hope you're eager to Bake! Frost! Drop!
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Mike, Andy and the Mad Factory crew...
Second Recommendation and Playthrough Video
The new week brings another Recommendation from the fantastic Press Start To Begin Curator.
Accompanying this is a playthrough video of Mad Factory that you can find here.
This week we're working on a Mixed Reality video of the gameplay to highlight the interactive and energetic fun to be had playing the game.
This coming weekend we're planning on visiting one of the VR arcades that has Mad Factory installed. We're going to be hearing about how our game is being received, what we could do better and then challenging the customers to beat our scores!
And finally, we're also working on supporting Oculus, but more news on that later this week.
Best, Mike, Andy, and the Mad Factory crew...
First Review!
You made our day! ːsteamhappyː
We've had our heads down the past few months with Mad Factory, so it's awesome to know that people are now not only getting a chance to play it, but also having a good time doing it!
Best, Mike, Andy, and the Mad Factory crew...
Welcome To The Factory
Thanks for stopping by the Mad Factory :)
We're a creative developer team working at The Third Floor and we're happy to (finally) say the factory is open for business...We hope you enjoy it.
For Mad Factory, we aimed to have the gameplay be simple to get, but rewarding on replay - with a bunch of little tricks to discover to up your score.
This burst of VR fun is set in a playful and visually rich world mostly because we had a great time coming up with the look and feel of robot chickens, waterfall milk machines and mechanical egg crackers! Have a look around. More from us soon...
Best, Mike, Andy, and the Mad Factory crew...