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A factory game for your phone: drills, belts and machines on the Moon, and a shuttle pad to fill.
Not enough plays yet to compare build 25 with build 24: it needs 10 sessions on each (build 25 has 0, build 24 has 0).
Ore-patch readability, depletion wear, and dig-site tap fix
Playtest fixes: the derrick drill is back, resume where you left off, drills you can turn, one output slot and cheaper pad ports
7f332a5 Drill: back to the derrick look (fence, lattice tower, turning bit, chute) from 5d914d9, on the 3x3 footprint; crown-lamp glow back on the tower (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "I liked the way the miners looked before. Let's go back")674e57d Pad: the small solar panel (top-left) and battery (top-right) back on the corners at 45 degrees, hazard stripes back on both bottom corners, still no level number; the shuttle about 11% bigger (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "go back to the small panel and battery indicators 45 degrees on the pad ... make the ship slightly bigger on the pad"); test 58 follows4728c45 Data, Select and Undo: darker, more solid buttons (background .42 to .8, a stronger edge; a greyed Undo at .65 not .4) so they read over the map (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest)82356b2 Resume where you left off: the save keeps what every building holds (belt items, machine buffers and outputs, fuel, tanks) and a saved game opens straight onto the map, no title card and no shuttle gliding in again (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "it shouldn't like reset the ore. It should just pick you up immediately where you were"). Solar panels 2x2, batteries stay 1x2 (Kraig: "solar panels should be 2x2 ... keep the batteries 2x1"); 1x2 panels in today's saves keep their shape. Test 74; tests 71 and the footprint list follow1e8b5e3 Building panel: speed, making and power shrink to one small line; a new In / Out row shows what the building holds (each input with what its recipe needs, finished items waiting, a drill's ore, a burner's fuel), live as it changes (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest)6480b2d Burner panel: a consumption bar (what's alight, draining, seconds left; out of fuel says so) and its fuel count 2/4 with the items queued; the item alight is saved too. The red power-shortage alert is a little see-through (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest)7da290e Ore patch: the yellow selection box goes round the whole 3x3 patch, centred on it, not its top-left tile (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest)8f59067 Sound comes back at once on returning to the game: one wake 80 ms after the page shows (was 300 ms) with a 0.3 s fade, which also handles iOS's 'interrupted' state, and any touch (pointerdown or touchend) wakes it if iOS refused; the gain is faded back up whenever it was left at zero (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "the sound doesn't come immediately back after i come back to the game on my phone")4512a77 Drills turn: Turn (or R) moves a drill's output to the middle of the next side; new drills still start facing up, a belt drag never moves the port, and a turned drill keeps its side through a save (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "we should be able to rotate mine"); tests 37b and the footprint check followccbf674 Pad pipe port (Moon and Mars): the right side's first port is blue with a drop and takes pipes only, the amber ports take belts only; it opens with the first pad upgrade; connections already plugged in keep working; Saturn and Ceres unchanged. A tip when stuck on water (the goal needs a fluid, a pipe is laid, no pipe port yet): upgrade the pad (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "one of the new slots should be a pipe", "a tip to upgrade the pad to get liquid slot"). Test 753abce18 One output slot: every building holds one finished item (machines were 3, drills 2). A machine may work its next batch while that item waits but holds it, done, until the slot empties (no power drawn, shown as Output full); a finished item leaves at once when a belt takes it, so a fed line still rolls straight into the next batch (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "buildings should have 1 output storage"); test 60 followscd8f113 Fix: a saved game past level 5 crashed on load (the opening's radio ran before the session log existed, since saved games skip the title card): start-up now runs after the rest of the script. Merger: priority is a tie-break, not a hold; any gap goes to whichever input is waiting, so a busy priority belt no longer starves the side belt or leaves the output short; the next item starts halfway across (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "This merger is set up correctly but it isn't filling the belt"); test 45 follows2532182 Revert the pad pipe port: any item, belt or pipe, goes in any open port again; the blue port, its tip and test 75 are gone (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "i don't think we should have solid, liquid and gas ports for the shuttle pad, any item can go in any slot")6330275 Dig site: the yellow selection box goes round the whole 3x3 site (Saturn's open-sky sections round their whole 4x4 too), not the corner tile (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest)869cb35 Shuttle pad: each upgrade opens one port (16 levels), and they're cheap: 400 credits for the second port, about +25% each after, ~44K for all 16 (was 1/4/8/12/16 ports for 3K-60K, 98K in all); old saves keep the ports they had open (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "each upgrade unlocks one slot and be cheaper"); tests and runs set every port open with level 16012c29e Moon: the reactor opens at L7, a level after hopper pads (L6), not both at once (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "getting hopper pads and reactor at the same time is too much", "maybe reactor after L6")3686af2 Belt T: a belt tile fed from two or three sides takes them in turns (the side that went last waits while another has an item at its end), so neither belt starves (Kraig, Nov 3 2026 playtest: "this type of junction should take from each side in turns")1cb6085 Playtests: each session summary carries a private random browser id (kept only in that browser's storage) and a 'me' tag for Kraig's own devices (open the game once with #me); pull_playtests.py groups sessions as Kraig / browser N / no id (Kraig, Nov 3 2026: "has anyone other than myself played the game yet?", "Yes, add it")Nov 3 build: a new 10-second opening, real music and sound effects, and a look overhaul
5d914d9 Nov 3 2026 build: a new 10 s opening; real Artlist music (opening, day, night) and effects with volume in the pad menu; ore icons on patches; a closed chute on drills; pad battery bar on top, panel bottom-left, no level number; smaller ring, storage on the bottom edge; production bar in the building menu; L2 upgrade labels; battery cells are the meter; fullscreen build menu (Kraig: "build")68ecc05 Nov 3 2026 look overhaul: footprints by function (smelter 3x2, joiner 2x3, solar and battery 1x2 strips, reactor 3x3 round, hopper pad 4x4, and the rest), rectangles turn with their inputs and outputs, old saves migrate (or keep their square); top-down buildings with one detail each, indicators fixed size on screen; Data mode rebuilt as icon cards with a summary line and the bottleneck. Reverts from Kraig's play of 5d914d9: music back to the synth drone (Artlist music files removed, effects kept), build menu back to the half-screen sheet (Kraig: "yes build it"; "go back to just the drone"; "revert to how it was before")Belt picking, Delete and copy-paste keys, machines that roll straight into the next batch, and one status ring per building
7280982 Belts: a tap picks one piece, again its section, again every belt touching it (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest: "select one piece of the belt to delete. that should be the first selection")71aa8fc Build sheet: a greyed building lights up the moment it's affordable (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest: "once i get enough credits ... i want the building to ungrey and become available")9453b05 Keys: Delete or Backspace deletes what's picked (belts, a group or a building) (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest: "delete key should delete")7547c57 Keys: Cmd+C copies the selected building (or a group), Cmd+V pastes it under the mouse (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest: "command c v should copy paste selected building")1482e80 Machines: a finished batch rolls straight into the next when inputs are stored, no idle frame, so lights don't blink (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest)1058419 Buildings: what a machine makes is a big icon in the middle of its roof, with a bold progress circle round it (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest)e69bf50 Buildings: middle icon about half the roof, thinner progress circle, no duplicate top-right tag (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest)91101cc Payload bonus when a level's shuttle goes (covers the new unlocks once, at least 2 min of earnings or 200); longer pad solar and battery bars set further in (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest)55d3bd6 Burner: pricier items burn longer (5 s x (1 + log2 value)), an amber circle round the firebox burns down with the item alight (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest)49cad60 Buildings: one indicator, the ring is the status (dark working, amber waiting or blocked, red no power); no badge or green light on ringed machines; glow only while working (Kraig, Nov 2 2026 playtest)A new Chapter 1 intro on a dead Earth, drills that send ore straight out, and each machine's output shown on its roof
2c80700 A new Chapter 1 intro on the realistic story spine, a dead Earth everywhere, and Kraig's notes (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "yes you can build the full intro")db52f1c Drills send ore out the top middle, no turns (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "the miner should always just send ore out the top middle. no turns")618566b Mining outposts: two grey drill arms instead of the tank and the hut (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "maybe just grey arms that move around to drill different areas slightly while the miner is working. i don't like the two mentioned there")a1998e8 Belts: tap picks the straight run, again the whole line, again the network; drag paints; Upgrade, Match and Delete in one bar; every belt level its own colour and chevron count (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "sometimes i just want to upgrade a part of a T but sometimes I do want to upgrade an entire group of belts")eabeae7 Data on the map: each machine's output on its roof with a progress ring, one hexagon problem badge (red no power, yellow blocked or missing input), backed-up belts stand still, and a Data view with items a minute, power and the worst bottleneck (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: the world shows state, panels show numbers)A new cinematic intro, and a new name: Sol Factory
f4160c7 A new cinematic intro for Chapter 1: one tilt down from the title past Earth's rubble and the Orbital to the pad, then Chapter 1 · Luna (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "Yes, build it")606145e Rename the game to Sol Factory: intro and chapter titles, page title, How to play, share text and link, backup-code message; the home-screen page moves to kraigadams.com/solfactory/ (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "Sol Factory", then "Let's change it to that")e5bb2df Ceres end card reads SOL FACTORY (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "Change to SOL FACTORY")A burner to start your power, mining outposts on ore patches, and machines with input slots
01b6070 Night clock drops below the contract when its battery warning would run into it (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "The night alert shouldn't overlap")d4c0eff Top of screen stacks so nothing overlaps (night clock, radio, power alert each under the last); the Moon pad's battery holds 1000 and a new game starts it full (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "We should never have overlap", "a little bigger start battery")8a1eddc Burner: burn any item for a little power, the first step before solar and batteries (Kraig, Nov 2 2026: "Burn any item for tiny energy")bfb107e Burner: show burners in the pad's power line and in How to playad76218 Mining outposts on 3x3 ore patches, joined batteries and solar panels, connectors on every live link, a one-sheet build menu, a still day/night clock43bf68c Machines hold one set of inputs with slots, drag a selection to move it, cost and refund floaters, half refunds, a rover garage, a battery bank, stamp copies by dragging (Kraig, Nov 2 2026)7932d4d How to play: removing gives back half; drag a selection to move itSaturn's gas platform, then Ceres Yard (Chapter 4): Hearth in a drydock that grows as her parts arrive
83eaa59 Saturn checkpoint 1: worlds ship to a shared Saturn stockpile at their last pad rates while you play elsewhere134238e Saturn: the growing platform, drifting gas bands and scoops, the import dock, staying afloat, wind and fusion, 13 levels, its opening and endingd6bbef9 Ceres Yard (Chapter 4): Hearth in a drydock that grows as her parts arrive, three sections that change the yard, clay, ice and nickel-iron, 13 levels, the launch ending out to the heliopauseMars: its own save, new ores, an air extractor, dust storms, and its own opening and ending
ff84aea Seamless transitions: the opening dives into a landing spot on the Moon's face; the ending is one pull-back from the factory's lights to the Moon to the mapdfc3751 Mars, checkpoints 1-2: worlds with their own saves, Mars ores, air extractor, Sabatier reactor, 13 levels to hull plating, methalox engines and a heat shield; hidden behind #mars7e01a7a Mars checkpoint 3: dust storms, the dust drone pad, smoothed canyons drawn as worn rock3294488 Mars checkpoint 4: its opening (rust Mars, the dive) and ending (Mars's outposts, Hearth 6 of 12, Saturn next)A new name, Heliopause, a story from Ceres Yard, and pad ports that open with upgrades
a9578ba Rename to Heliopause: title, intro, share text, site path /heliopause/ (internal ids unchanged)c66a4ff Lore: Mission Control signs from Ceres Yard; shuttles go up to a depot station; a freighter hauls each world's parts to Ceres; the black hole loops the Sun905601e The pad's ports: one to start (bottom middle), upgrades open 4, 8, 12, 16; amber gates on the pad; old saves keep all 16c868f03 Branding B first pass: icon and Steam capsules rendered from the real game; capture tools in brand/toolsb835577 Ending: the story on the map after the whole Moon (freighter to Ceres, Hearth's first three pieces, Planet Nine, next stop Mars); opening unchangedThe ending: pull back to the whole Moon and the other outposts' lights, plus twelve achievements
79ab120 Zoomed-out rendering 7x faster on big factories (half-size ground chunks)3173150 The ending: pull back to twinkling lights, then the whole Moon; Moon complete card with stats and Share (Kraig's idea)db717d9 Ending: the other outposts' lights on the Moon (Kraig's idea)44925c2 Ending: a held beat, Mission Control's last transmission, and a Chapter 2 card with an email sign-up (Kraig's notes)595f731 Ending: three-line transmission and a chapter ladder (Kraig's note)7eeb6f1 Achievements: twelve for the Moon with fixed ids (Game Center / Steam ready), toast on unlock, list on the pad panel; kept through Start overbb12feb Achievements stand apart: gold medal banner on unlock, a small medal badge on the pad panel, a medal grid marked just for fun618c497 Build tips in words only: no ring on a guessed spot for the Smelter, Press, solar panel or batteryUpgrades cost power, hopper pads, rate goals from level 4, and ore patches that wear
21329ab Remove the Status button and view (Kraig's note)1ff7aba Upgrades cost power; reactor 20, battery 500 (Kraig picked option 1)085a922 Power buildings upgrade; hopper pads (rocket hoppers, one per pad, cargo upgrades, one input side) (Kraig's notes)39d0ca5 Rate goals from level 4, patches wear (never dry), more mixed patches, belts draw power (Kraig's design)5186125 Level 3 anorthite help, trimmed late money, stamp-again Copy with a modules tip, toast logging (from Kraig's playthrough)Playtest fixes: full machines name the real cause, ore tags on the map, contracts when you're short, splitters that keep up with upgraded belts
e8fea4b Oxygen is green, so its pipes read (Kraig's note)760610d Full bubbles name the real cause and jump to it; the home-screen app reloads itself on a new build9389f32 Ore patches carry type and grade tags on the map (Kraig's note)979a9ee Contracts come up when you're short of credits (Kraig's note)102963b Contracts ask for the most advanced item you make (Kraig's note)db90f1e Belt items keep their spacing across tile edges, no more overlaps (Kraig's note)3550258 No Full bubbles on the map; a full machine's panel says why (Kraig's note)5a4749e Splitters and crossings keep up with upgraded belts (Kraig's bug)3c5cfc5 Flush for belts (Kraig's note)1c4dd4a Splitters and crossings also keep up with neighbouring machines' levelsc492de6 Splitters, crossings and filters get their own speed level; line upgrades lift them (closes Kraig's loophole)a88ed59 Mission Control introduces the drone depot and the reactor (Kraig's note)Mission Control as a green terminal, slimmer belts, glass buttons, and a day and night clock with a battery forecast
566665b Mission Control as a typing green terminal (Kraig's note)846a53f Belts: slim track with moving chevrons in the speed colour (Kraig picked mock 2)e85877b Belts: one faint chevron a tile (Kraig's note)0d8c931 First-night power warning and solar/battery pointers; build menu hides locked buildings and empty tabs5999e43 New badges instead of level cards (Kraig's note)d12c365 Shuttles: a short gap of empty sky before the next one glides in (Kraig's note)378908c Lift-off: engine warm-up glow instead of countdown numbers (Kraig's note)efdb099 Status, Select and Undo as see-through glass buttons (Kraig's note)bb0bb32 Undo keeps belt items and machine stock (Kraig's note)a207d10 Dark glass panels everywhere; the pad loses its two unexplained rings (Kraig's notes)676e7ea Day/night clock with a battery forecast (Kraig's note)A new intro down onto the Moon, and fixes for the iPhone home-screen version
25a608e Intro: a descent line drops onto the Moon instead of the zoom (Kraig's playtest note)680fe69 Intro: title over the Moon (Chapter 1 · Luna), shuttle lands and the pad unfolds; realistic Moon; no cream strip in Safaribd7bb5f #intro on the address replays the full opening54f49b3 Ore pointer and tip wait for the pad to finish building (Kraig's note)b453e41 Home-screen version: canvases fill the whole screen height (Kraig's iPhone screenshot)7b748b0 Playtest summary records the phone's screen sizes (diagnosing the home-screen gap)7d47863 Home-screen version: map and intro sit in the page at full screen height (iOS clips fixed layers 62 pt short)f7df78f Home-screen version: top bar and cards sit below iOS's frosted strip (Kraig's note)A design pass: a goal strip, stuck-machine bubbles, buildings redrawn, contracts, a launch countdown, shadows and floodlights
726f633 Web playtests: on kraigadams.com, session summaries and player notes go to the site's playtest store; Send a note on the pada087f07 Design upgrades: goal strip, stuck-machine bubbles, tabbed build sheet, machine panel with stats and one Upgrade button92ec6d6 WASD and arrow keys pan the camera; keys typed into text boxes never act on the game03400d2 Credits and the level goal on one line at the top0fce024 Remove the peaks of eternal lightcdecab6 Buildings redrawn in the lunar hardware style13517c9 Playtest checks: pacing and reachability tool; first launch goes straight to play (How to play stays on the pad)e4d114d First ore spot straight below the pad: the first belt is one straight drag; keep top-down for good (tilt plan dropped)944f790 Moon: how-to-make chains, unlock cards, optional contracts, launch countdown, night-sky passers3138e68 Unlock cards: every building has a line (pipe and belt descriptions); check every level's card renders4abb176 Graphics: sun shadows and pad floodlights, running belt treads, small effects, pebbles and rover tracks, ore accents, item symbols in the UIPlaytest build: a sensor array and hidden dig sites, endless upgrades and a survey rover
703e4c6 Playtest build: sensor array and hidden dig sites, ore panel, locked inputs, shuttle only for level shipments, slower and costlier balance with 3 upgrade levels0fb1662 Endless building upgrades: one Upgrade button, each level 3x the last70cf173 Upgrades: +0.25x speed a level, next level 0.75x base x 1.25 per level4a44977 Belt lines upgrade like buildings; edge arrows point at scanned dig sites64a38b3 Survey pad: a rover drives out, uncovers the nearest hidden dig site and drives homea70984c Quiet documentary intro; Survey says nothing left in range instead of chargingThe Moon: regolith and craters, a long lunar night, ores with grades, fluids in pipes, a reactor, filters, drones, upgrades and sound
f4ff73e Bigger map (160x160), ore spread out, ground drawn in chunks344695b Moon look: lunar regolith, maria, craters and grit; long dark lunar night; no fog, whole map open; new save key6a34493 Single ore spots with grades, mixes and dig sites; the Moon item tree (ilmenite, anorthite, regolith, ice; Electrolyzer, Greenhouse, 3x3 Fabricator; 13 levels ending in the three final items)5f356d0 Fluids in pipes: water, oxygen and hydrogen ride pipes drawn like belts (one fluid per pipe, speed tiers, crossings, flush); belts refuse fluids, pipes refuse solids7121980 Moon power: long lunar night (45% of the day), fission reactor (steady 30), peaks of eternal light where solar never goes dark33ba408 Filter (one item to its own side), Recycler, and the Drone depot (drones fly up to five items to the pad; trips grow with distance; power per flying drone)79a2fb0 Machine upgrades 1-5 (speed and power x1-3, level k costs k x base, full refund, saved per building); undo now gives back exactly what a change cost and keeps credits earned since05516aa Stats and bottlenecks (real output per minute in panels; Status view tints machines working/waiting/blocked/no power with a count line) and Back up / Restore save codes (PL1: + base64 UTF-8 JSON) in the pad panel3867794 Shuttle A1: six ribbed shipping containers (darker frame, ribs, corner fittings) in the colour of what filled them76410f9 Feel and story: WebAudio sound (day/night pad, build clicks, launch rumble, level chime, mute in the pad panel), radio messages at key moments, tutorial pointers for the first three levels, haptics, intro from orbit (short logo on later launches), landing dust; home-screen page colour to the Moon's41cd55d Build menu in two columns when long; shorter How to play that fits a phone (cards scroll); haptics only after a first tap; scripted checks in tools/bwtest.js (T.all)507a39c New game camera and first tip use the nearest regolith spotLow power shows on the machines, the pad gets its own solar panel and battery, a new shuttle, and a new name: Payload
38b3648 Top pill shows credits only; low-power banner appears when the factory slows75246b4 Low power shows on the machines: pulsing warning lamps, dimmed flickering glow at night91cb90e Pad has its own small solar panel and battery; empty at night the factory slows to a stop5bdd1dc Pad panel and battery at 45 degrees in the top corners80ab0c2 Shuttle pad is 4x4ca2deff New cargo shuttle: long box hull, swept wings, side boosters3bc25d7 Payload: new name; home-screen web version at kraigadams.com/payload (page builder, icon, publish script)Credits for deliveries, open grassland for the first map, and cargo shuttles instead of a rocket
26ad9b4 Credits: deliveries earn by item tier, building costs credits, refunds on removef490f3f Top pill: credits, bolt, then a long battery shape923c9c1 Battery back to a thin bar7dd5c39 First map is open grassland; Mars desert kept as a later biome7e440c4 Shuttles replace the rocket: small cargo shuttles fly in, load 6 and fly off8e19772 Cargo shuttle look, goal items fill shuttles, shuttles fly above buildings5232cff Calmer shuttle flights: no turning, slow lift, glide out the top, glide in from the bottomde1868b Shuttle containers fill in order and keep their colourSolar panels and batteries, and many passes on a top bar that ends up as one short pill
e28c2ec Solar panels and batteries with a shared power supply; power and battery bars; compact goal cardaf78329 Goals move into a launch pad panel; slim status strip top-left3ab50f7 Top strip drops the hint sentence; it stays in the pad panel5d46f4f Top strip shows only power and battery; speed and help buttons removed (help and start over in the pad panel)601a42d Hold and drag moves a building; Copy button in machine panels26c537b Box select to move, copy or delete a group; Draw belts button removed7ae41ef Day and night bar in the top strip7b741d8 Top bar is one thin line: day, power, battery0bedd4a Top bar drops the day/night readout50889d2 Power bar shows spare power: green, amber on battery, red only when short3cb68c9 Short power shows satisfaction percent; power and battery icons5ab7fcb Top bar in plain words: Full speed or Slowed to N%, battery Full / Charging / time left2099661 Battery shown as a bar; words only for time left while draining232fdb7 Top bar: battery bar with a bolt that shows factory satisfaction by color99587d2 Top bar is a short pillVersion 10: 2x2 machines with output ports, a bigger map and a launch pad; hold a building to copy it
ebfb5bc Beaconworks v10: 2x2 machines with output ports, bigger map, launch pad with rocket launches2e8e8ab A tap outside an open panel or menu only closes it8de39f7 Hold a building to copy it; taps place more until Done6ed29fe Hold and drag a building to place a copy where you let goVersion 6: a Mars world with mesas, canyons and glowing ore, a playtest recorder, and belts that hold two items a tile
b712f7f Beaconworks v6: Mars world (mesas, canyons, glowing ore, day and night)c4115ad Tap on ore builds a drill straight away3ffa32b Playtest recorder: sessions saved to the artifact databasedeba92a Belts hold two items a tile; detailed item drawingsVersions 3 and 4: splitters, crossings, undo and straight belt drawing
3f193ea Beaconworks v3: priority splitter, crossing, undo, draw-belts switch, bigger tiles807c906 Beaconworks v4: straight-locked belt drawing with preview and edge scroll, auto crossings, per-line belt speeds 1-5xfcd6b66 Splitter: pick the priority output side (Even, Straight, Left, Right)Versions 1 and 2, as Beaconworks: a belt factory on an alien moor, 6 levels and 13 items; tap to build, drag to lay belts
faaae2b Beaconworks v1: belt factory on an alien moor, 6 core levels, 13 itemsf9696db Beaconworks v2: minimal look, tap to build, drag to lay belts, items per minute; DESIGN: endless, longer, soldMeasured by the ShipGames recorder in every build: anonymous, no names or cookies. A session counts once the player presses something; bots and rapid repeat plays are left out.
Mars, Saturn's gas platform and Ceres Yard came next, then a burner to start your power and a new name on Nov 2: Sol Factory. The Nov 3 build added real music and sound and a look overhaul, and the playtest fixes kept coming.
Nov 1 was a full day of Kraig's notes from his iPhone: a new intro, Mission Control, slimmer belts, glass buttons, a day and night clock. It ended with the Moon's ending, twelve achievements, and a new name, Heliopause, with a story from Ceres Yard.
An evening of quick notes: solar power, credits, cargo shuttles instead of a rocket, and a new name, Payload. Later that night it moved to the Moon: regolith, a long lunar night, ores with grades, fluids in pipes and a reactor.
Sol Factory started on Oct 31 as Beaconworks, the same genre as Builderment with its own world, and a hard cap: 6 levels, 13 items, 4 buildings, one map. Version 1 was a belt factory on an alien moor; version 2 made it tap to build and drag to lay belts, for a phone.
From the game's own git history: 209 commits, 25 builds. Self-reported. Not verified: GitHub has no record of these commits being pushed. Checked Nov 4, 2026 by tools/verify.mjs (gh CLI).