Almost a Tinkerer
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Almost a Tinkerer is a game inspired by shapez.io, factorio and little big workshop, that we created as part of our semester project.
The main gameplay consists of placing factories and conveyers on a grid in order to gather ressources and transform them, eventually combining them to make furniture.
As you advance through the story line, new buildings will be unlocked and will be required to make more complicated products. Eventually, you'll be delivering furniture.
The game doesn't have any puzzle aspects, it's a purely play and relax kind of game. You are free to build whatever you want, and as soon as you are done with the main story line, you will get one last building (the splitter), which allows more complicated builds. The game does not have an end, feel free to create mazes of conveyers and factories that produce large amounts of furniture.
Features
- Infinite procedural map
- Music and sounds
- Unlimited amount of saves
- Multiple difficulty levels / map generation presets
- Progressive contracts and unlocked factories
- UI scales with the screen size
- 100% custom made pixel art sprites
- Dumb furniture names
Credits
Sound effects and Music from https://www.zapsplat.com
Download
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Development log
- Release of Almost a TinkererSep 08, 2021
Comments
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Hello, sorry for all the comments I didn’t reply to. Ever since I graduated from engineering school I had very little time for game dev and as such didn’t take much time to read what was here. I’m sorry if you encountered any issues.
I’m going to be honest, I probably won’t have much time to fix any bugs you encounter, but feel free to comment anyway and if I have some time I’ll see what I can do :) That might change in the future but do not take my word for it.
For those who are confused on how to launch the game, you need to have Java installed on your computer, after which you can usually just double click the game file (or use
java -jar aatinkerer-1.0.jarif you want to run it from the terminal, but people who want to do that probably already knew how to do it).Thanks for playing!
The game very quickly broke upon reaching the final level of the game, miners stopped mining, mergers stopped merging, and assemblers (or whatever you named them) stopped assembling.
i keep getting a crash report when i try to run it through the itch app on mac.do you know how to troubleshoot this issue
how do i use a .jar file?
I love the game, but I think the splitter should be unlocked earlier than the very end of the game.
Thanks for the feedback! And sorry for the late reply, I didn’t have the time for it.
If I get back to working on the game I’ll put this on the TODO list, I agree that would make the early game a lot more organized.
My Java version is 17.0.1 and I am running Linux Mint 64 bits
Thanks in advance :)
Hi, I built a new version that uses a new backend, can you give it a try see if it fixes your problem? You can find it on the game page under downloads as
aatinkerer-1.0-lwjgl3-alpha.jar.Keep me updated :)