Source: www.factorio.com --- Monday, August 27, 2018
With most of the team away for GamesCom or vacation, I have the pleasure of writing a Friday Facts for you this week. NPE/Campaign update As you probably know, I've been working on the New Player Experience (NPE, as we call the new demo + tutorial) and the new Campaign. However we don't want to talk about it too in-depth or be too specific about either of these subjects, purely to not spoil it for the FFF readers, but there is some related news to share. The NPE needs a lot of scripting and design work to make sure the new player does not get stuck anywhere because it is a tutorial, and to make sure that it gives a taste of what the game is about because it is also a demo. Since the NPE was the first thing we started, we already have a working version and we have been testing it with people at the office, and also people who have never played Factorio, to get the necessary feedback to polish it further. From what we gather, it seems that the NPE is in a decent state, the main design seems to work very well and we are just improving details and making the map look nice. The main campaign design has been completely finished for a while now, we have made a 'geographic' map layout and now we are 'just' implementing it in cooperation with Rseding, who is improving/adding tools for the map editor which makes our work a lot easier and in many cases just makes it possible (love letters, non-genital-shaped candy and other gifts to his add ...
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