“Learning Factory” has just released its very first major content update

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Press release:
The indie games developer Luden.io (the creators of the acclaimed puzzle game about machine learning “while True:learn()”) and video games publisher Nival are today very excited and pleased to announce that they are going to release the very first major content update for their factory automation game “Learning Factory” on April 22nd, 2021 (the update will be released for PC via Steam).

In this new update, players will be able to enjoy a new game, create their own maps thanks to a new procedural map generator and enjoy a bunch of quality of life improvements. Learning Factory is available for €11.99/$14.99 on Steam.

The procedural map generator will allow players to create unique maps, instead of having just one available as of now. The possibilities are now endless, so players will decide what kind of challenge they want to face. Will you create your factory in a hilly area? Or perhaps on a bunch of islands?

Learning Factory also features a new character design, an unlockable hoverboard that will help you move faster around your factory as well as new machines and new resources, like cloth. Luden.io has started a series of dev diaries and livestreams– be sure to follow them so you don’t miss out on any updates about Learning Factory!

Learning Factory is a factory automation game where you have to design and build increasingly big and complex factories to make goods for cats. However, it brings a unique twist to the genre thanks to machine learning: you also have to collect feedback from your feline clients and analyze their data with machine learning models until you understand how to really make them happy!

Just like Luden.io’s previous game, the acclaimed puzzle game about machine learning while True: learn(), Learning Factory is backed by specialists in the subject, and implements real-world machine learning models. If you want to learn more about this key discipline in today’s world, you will get to understand how big data is collected and processed to get useful information out of it. Or you can just focus on making the biggest, quirkiest factories for your cats, of course!

Beta access for this update and review keys are available, ask us for yours!

ABOUT LEARNING FACTORY
Learning Factory is a factory automation game where you have to build an increasingly bigger and complex factory, named KOTOVOD and located on Mars, to make goods for cats. Then you get data about sales analyzing what cats liked or disliked, and use this data with machine learning models to optimize prices and make sure you’re selling what cats really long for.

Backed by actual specialists in the matter and using real-world machine learning models, the game aims also at teaching how big data is collected and processed in machine learning. You will be learning about two of the most relevant technologies of our time while you play a super fun strategy game — if you want to, that is; because at its true heart it’s above all a quirkily engaging factory automation game with lots of cats in it!

LEARNING FACTORY’S NEW BUILD FEATURES:
Enjoy a procedural map generator that will allow the creation of unique maps with all kinds of landscapes and options (will you be able to create a factory on a bunch of islands?)
Design your dream island thanks to a tool that allows lifting and relocating pieces of ground, along with growing plants
Play the new Freeplay Mode, that will let you build a factory with no ties to the tutorial.
Move faster in a new hoverboard (an unlockable item through research)
New character design (with a cat sticking out of his backpack)
New machine for production: the Loom
New resource: Cloth
A factory analytics tool hat will detect issues in sales and/or production and will show graphs to the players so they can solve them
Updated art and animations as well as bug fixes
Updated localizations

KEY FEATURES
Build a factory from scratch to make goods for cats
Automate and optimize it to be as efficient as possible
Research new stuff to make and build machines to do the job
Build cat-entertaining facilities inside your new research lab and collect useful data on their behavior
Get sales data and analyze it with Machine Learning to create better quality and custom stuff
Optimize your factory to unveil the mystery of cats’ true nature and how they can change the Universe

ABOUT LUDEN.IO
Luden.io started as a research and development group within Nival, an independent developer with top-selling games like Blitzkrieg, Heroes of Might & Magic V, and Silent Storm under their belt. In their first years, they released successful games for virtual reality platforms, such as InMind, InCell, and VRobot, as well as the lauded AR game for iOS ARrived.

In 2016 they started working with artificial intelligence, releasing AIDraw in 2016. while True: Learn() was released in March 2018 on Steam Early Access, a new step in their path of entertainment, learning, and innovation, following their motto: to satisfy curiosity and enlighten people, using the best achievements of the gaming industry. Learning Factory is their latest release.