Beta Playtest LIVE

Hey fellows 🚀

Thank you so much for the strong interest in the Flow Factory Beta and the incredible number of sign-ups.

The Beta Playtest has started — I’m very excited to finally share it with you!

If you’d like to help shape the game, feel free to share your thoughts, ideas, or bug reports on Discord — I really appreciate it! Every bit of feedback counts and helps make the game better.

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New Features

• New machine: Gripper

• New machine: Generator

• Keyboard shortcuts for tools, tech tree, cancel, pause, demolish

• Customizable key bindings

• Bonus challenge

• Speed upgrade for mergers

Improvements

• Improved plasma drill animation & audio

• Plasma drill range visualization

• Explanation videos

• Blocks are released when moving machines

• Scrolling tech tree via mouse

• Removed exit countdown

• Non-refinable blocks decay to ash

• Tech tree position & zoom are saved

• Improved block art

• Increased door thickness

• Improved wipe sound

• Balanced volume

• Hover info for sources

• Quick-load confirm dialog

• Improved performance

• Clearer Ava messages

• Clearer hover explanations

• Improved Quadron flame animation

• Improved block trace animation

• Allow zooming out further

• Improved tech tree zoom

• Better visible block connections

• Hover info for blocks

• Beveled soil corners

• Save game name validation

• Reduced research durations

• Balanced base energy generation

• Optimized map design

• Adjusted tech tree

• Allow closer wall placement

• Sorted Ava message history

• Digging cursor indicates invalid action

• Mute when Steam overlay opens

Bug Fixes

• Fix conveyor end not snapping to grid when building quickly

• Fix conveyor not snapping to grid when stretching quickly

• Fix move tip arrows showing up when pressing move tool key while building conveyor, gripper or wall

• Fix rock being pushed away by blocks

• Fix flickering of hover boxes when hovering blocks with activated tool

• Fix showing background hover boxes when dragging blocks

• Fix rotator tween error when demolishing during rotate

• Fix exception when move tool is selected after gripper build has been cancelled via pressing a key

• Fix blocks jumping at connection between two conveyors

• Fix Steam overlay not opening anymore after returning to main menu

• Fix machine layers messed up when pressing tool or tech tree key while moving machine

• Fix smelter arrows in front of blocks when hovering machine

• Fix Ava history overlapping with HUD

• Fix Quadron can yield two times when wiped during refining

• Fix techtree gravity inverter subtree showing Research AI

• Fix energy view slightly below limit when relying just on base energy rate

• Fix Quadrons flame animation not deactivating when Quadron becomes non Quadron block formation

• Fix blocks trace accumulating when block stands still

• Fix accumulated Quadrons trail visible when revealing with plasma drill

• Fix research tree having very little scrolling space to the right

• Fix block formations stuck at corners

• Fix right mouse button deselection failing sometimes

• Fix move tip arrows not updating when pressing move key

• Fix moving not possible anymore when pressing move key during move

• Fix move tip arrows not always in foreground

• Fix UI elements not fitting on narrow screens

• Fix quick load key name and quick load dialog typos

• Fix miner radius visualization not always in foreground

• Fix hover box in shapes overview and techtree showing giant laser info

• Fix move tool english translation, bonus challenge text icon, gripper tutorial typo

• Fix plasma drill range circle visible after loading

• Fix plasma drill sleeping symbol not in foreground

• Fix generator not running after moving

• Fix pause sub menues not closing properly when clicking outside the dialog boxes

• Fix blocked areas of walls, so walls can now be positioned close to each other

• Fix generator build button hover info telling not researched when build limit reached

• Fix gripper rail jumping in front of start and end area markers when moving

• Fix activating tools via keyboard although not researched yet

• Fix moving camera outside of level bounds by using right mouse button dragging

• Fix merger stuck when dragging blocks into manually

• Fix view of running research not showing correctly on load

• Fix research button glowing on closing Quadrons menu and not glowing on game load

• Fix conveyor and wall changing position when moving start point and exceeding max machine length

• Fix generator lightning animation

• Fix conveyor snapping back to original position when trying to move after loading

• Fix source too fast for machines when on same speed level

• Fix moving gripper start point exceeding max length

• Fix blocks light shining through machines during gripper transport

• Fix generator colliding with blocks during build

• Fix generator light off after loading

• Fix machine max count limit

• Fix mouse info box overlap

• Fix gripper build light intensity

• Fix build light too large

• Fix conveyor disappearing during moving after loading