Once you’ve completed Factorio’s Space Age DLC – serious megalomania aside – you’ll be able to upload snapshots of your game to your Galaxy of Fame. This is the digital night sky where your devastating industrial feats will be forever overlooked. Instructions and disillusionment with tomorrow’s factory builders.
The star map you can check out here is “Space Age’s last little surprise” from developer Wube Software, which was released earlier this week. Once you reach interstellar space, you will be asked to upload your game. You can save general map information such as play time, along with planet and platform chart displays, items, energy, and kill statistics. Once you have enshrined your solar system for posterity, you can update it, but keep in mind that each player can only have one star at a time.
“You can browse other people’s factories and see how they work,” the developer continues. “You may notice that some maps are a bit questionable. We don’t want to be too restrictive, so we’re not blocking saves using cheats/commands/editors at this time, but we’re adding some filtering options. I plan to do it soon. ”
One of the reasons I’m posting this is because a lot of people are playing Factorio right now (the Space Age DLC is all the rage on Steam). It’s also because I enjoy fanciful attempts to save player achievements in-game. Galaxy of Fame reminds me of Noctis, an amazing experimental space exploration sim with some of the most beautiful prismatic effects I’ve ever seen in a game.
Released more than 20 years ago, the game allowed players to name the planets they discovered and share them in the form of an old-fashioned database. You can still use the app to download these files and access the world in question. Will Factorio’s giant assembly line evoke the same nostalgia in 20 years?
