đź©· Stella

i was trying to get into factorio and it’s honestly an amazing field study of how NOT to design a videogame interface

it is SO incredibly designed by powerusers, for powerusers, and as a new player it is incredibly frustrating how baffling it is to try and do anything that they had to make me read Tutorials. if your game UI is so confusing that you need Tutorials you’ve already failed.

it really, really took the IndustrialCraft inspiration…

Mar 16 at 12:45pmWeb
Show threadđź©· Stella Mar 16

I’ve been working on an automation game for the past, like, 3 years, so I really do mean it when I say “this is an amazing field study” especially because I’m a poweruser of the automation game genre myself, just not Factorio in specific. I was trying to play it as a new player intentionally.

I took some mental notes on how to avoid this mess but… wow

Show threaderi Mar 16
@[email protected] it is like just so incredibly slick though. i love how you can use the quick select hotkey on literally any icon in the ui and it'll just give you a ghost