I like how they immediately require a prime number after you unlock multiplication to drill in addition is still important.

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

Good spot!

@Xepent

6 күн бұрын

Just multiply by 1

So, shapez but arithmetic. And the node input/output positions seem to be flexible, which is better (less restraining) than shapez in this regard.

@marks7502

Ай бұрын

came here to say this^^

@ARockRaider

Ай бұрын

that's what i was thinking from the start, a less interesting shapesio.

@ximaxwellix

Ай бұрын

@@ARockRaider Which is why I feel weird, that shapez is free and this is 6,99€. This game clearly copied a lot from shapez, which is fine, game devs copy all the time, but it's still weird. It's even more funny, because they released another game in 2022, which is also the same game, but hexagons instead of squares and sell that for 4,99€ as well.

@t1geres544

Ай бұрын

Yeah I think shapez is more interesting this. The limited input/output nodes is part of the game

@fatal9961

Ай бұрын

oh noes, this is a Beltex alike not shapez

Don't know if all KZreadrs does this, but i feel like they play the game in the worse way possible so that i want to go play it myself properly 🤣

@batuaykut2391

27 күн бұрын

You are absolutely right man

@joshthompson8478

20 күн бұрын

It's the same tactic as those mobile game ads. Doesn't earn my sub, but it earns my desire to buy the game. So it works I guess

@purringraven3648

19 күн бұрын

ikr Like how he absolutely wasted all those 3s instead of adding them together with a 1 to create 10s

@DarkSpirit64

14 күн бұрын

like the way he did the 10 as 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2, when you might as easily do 2 + 2 + 4 2, or the 20 as 3 + 3 + 6 + 4 + 4 instead of 4 + 4 + 8 + 4, and so on

@bieuw5304

6 күн бұрын

This was itching me big time, but i don’t think it was intentional

the factorio/shapez player in me is screaming "the ratios are all wrong!" will give this game a try

Got about 3 minutes into the video and decided to instantly buy the game. I don't want anything spoiled but man this looks amazing. I tried shapes but it didn't click in my brain but numbers??? That makes perfect sense to me. Thank you for posting the video

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

You’re very welcome indeed, glad I could share a great game with you!

@RobertShane

8 күн бұрын

Same, got to level 20 by the end of the day

You would be amazing at mobile game ads with how unsatisfying your design for 16 was by 18:37, all the strain on one 3 generator, while the conveyors for adding 12s and 4s doesn’t even connect to one bridger, yes this was only written because it was absolutely frustrating and I would’ve played the game because of it if I could, 10/10 great advertisement for the game. I’m sure you’ll get past level pink!

@syberfang7890

6 күн бұрын

My thoughts as well, lol. Like I yelled "Stop being so dumb please!"

you need to read more of the details, the extractor upgrade you researched hinted at the fact it can output 2 full belts when it was upgraded, which when combined with the belt speed upgrade hints at the extractors can end up being super powerful.

@milanstevic8424

Ай бұрын

And you basically want to maximize output to at least one full belt (which is at max belt speed / sec), not only you're gathering numbers faster, but also many locations become reusable, so when smaller numbers become obsolete, you can redirect them for more complex production. It's a neat game, I just wish there was more hindrance/power/cost/friction of some sort.

my god. I love making CPU's. Also lol, "it's sequential." - me: oh, 1, 2, 3, 5. What happened to making 4?

@matt65535

Ай бұрын

Sequential -> Monotonically increasing, it seems!

@fredtwo8347

Ай бұрын

Sequential doesn't mean consectuive

@XellaOmai

29 күн бұрын

Looks like Fibonacci numbers to me.

This video was an OCD nightmare :)

@fun_guy235y.t.

27 күн бұрын

It was

@nightowlorder2750

22 күн бұрын

Bro fr be leaving random pieces of road and that one tiny part with an 18 stuck in it that triggered my OCD sooo damn bad

@antman7673

13 күн бұрын

I don‘t even know if I have OCD, but yeah. One can just think, I have no power over that mess.

The other day I watched a video about "integer complexity" in which a guy in the video talk about how many 1s would it need to create a number with addition, multiplication, then later on subtraction and division, the concept would be really useful for this game as you could have a general sense in how to figure out an optimal set up for making a certain number with the least amount of required input.

@ValentineC137

Ай бұрын

All hail the algorithm

@12345NOU54321

10 күн бұрын

Hail forest clock professor

@wind7459

8 күн бұрын

yoo pfp

There is nothing minimalist about Potatograd's OP-144 factory. It's such a large factory that the test flights are done inside its massive walls and high ceiling.

Same developer made Beltex a few years ago. Same game but instead of being on a square grid, you are on hexagons.

I wonder if my child could use this to find the fun in math...will have to test those waters when she gets to mult and div. I'm a factory game enthusiast so this looks great for developing basic math skills and problem solving.

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

I hope so!

16 is a power of 2, meaning you can get a *much* simpler design (=easy copy+paste) with just doubling up 2s (like in a pyramid-shape). Using 3s isn't any faster, you just made your design way more complicated than it needs to be.

@fredtwo8347

Ай бұрын

But that does require 2 more belts of extraction input (8 vs 6)

@DarkSpirit64

14 күн бұрын

the limit was adder speed anyway

man.. i sure hope there is no one who will make a computer in that game..

I recommend reading up on the tooltips that show up whenever you unlock something new. If you simply drag one belt across another, the game automatically places a bridge for you. And with the extractor upgrades you can pull multiple belts from each source.

This is by the developer of Beltex, the same concept, just switched from hex to square grid.

This is basically Numberz

"off by 1" I see what you did there xD

try and trick me into doing math while gaming?!?!?! HOW VERY DARE YOU!!! :P

@isaosauzedde5513

Ай бұрын

This is as much math as your comment is an essay though

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

;)

@jasonhunter3429

Ай бұрын

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@isaosauzedde5513

Ай бұрын

@@jasonhunter3429 And as your joke both lacked originality and participate in perpetuating a preconceived idea which I believe to be harmful for society in general, I use sarcasm ("sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something"), indeed to mock you ;)

You are making compact adders but inefficient belts

@DarkSpirit64

14 күн бұрын

not even, it's not compact when you can do it with a layer less of adders

Huh, i like somehow that there are no splitters required to split belts... although it looks weird. :D

I enjoyed the video so much I went out and bought the game. I can already feel my brain getting sharper.

This is a great game, might have to get this for my kids. Maths and Game all in one!

@rsvmaker878

Ай бұрын

Two other great games are Human Resource Machine and its sequel 7 Billion Humans. Those two games got my nephew interested in computer science.

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

You should!

Just like Beltex (Beltex uses hexes)

@joshuaguenin9507

Ай бұрын

same developer

You should have taken the main converter-belt and used it as a random input. Meaning all numbers should in theory be obtainable through putting in a number close to that range plus the converter belt. This would mean that until you get multipliers which will do the higher numbers you don't do anything.

i LOVE this game! who needs graphics, when you would have 100% strategy

If you connect the output of the adder/multiplier to its input would it get infinitely large?

Mindustry 2: electric boogaloo

This feels like it would be better if you could only extract primes.

You need more buffer coming out of your addition modules. If your belt is full, the addition module will pause.

I've noticed, one resource can only fill 2 belts without skipping the line.

I clicked on this video cause the thumbnail and title was interesting. after about 2 minutes I bought the game myself. my adhd CRAVES numbers right now. so excited to get home and play this after work

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

It’s so good isn’t !

So basically slowed circuits and ALUs (Arithmetic Logic Units)

My eye is twitching watching you play lol

I always wanted to make or play an game about discovering numbers with bigget and bigger formulas/calculs And here is my dream, in front of my eyes

Hm, I like factory games, and I can also enjoy abstract and niche games, but somehow this misses the mark for me. Most factory games have you solve multiple puzzles, or on multiple "layers" (building designs, overall architecture, throughput on a micro level, and balancing progress and improving your infrastructure), but this one seems kind of one dimensional to me. It makes it accessible in a weird way, but for me it's kind of missing the "game" mark, and feels more like an educational experience.

@milanstevic8424

Ай бұрын

I get what you mean, but you'd be surprised, it scales pretty cleverly. Algebra sneaks up from behind! The game gets very interesting as it progresses, in my experience, and the gameplay shown in this video resembles something similar to Factorio spaghetti, i.e. it's not really representative of true play. For example as soon as you master the belt throughput optimization, you progress onto modular design and reusable circuitry. In the mid-game the designs get very streamlined, but you juggle between the factories in a vast play area. Suddenly you want to redirect that 36 factory because you can clone a place that can do x12 and a place that will subtract 5 for your current goal of 427. Yes it's abstract, but in a sense you build your own commodities and factory chains with this game and every solution is different.

Should have called it Mathomatic

nah am not gonna fall into that trap again

This game is just shapez... but with numbers

This game is literally just shapez with numbers.

Hmm this smells like "Macrodata Refinement" from Severance...

Jesus christ I started to sweat @ 30:16. My OCD can't handle this.

Big Shapez fan so will be giving this a go. Thanks for highlighting this game for me.

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

Agree!

@Anson_AKB

Ай бұрын

have a look at Beltex: same developers, same principle of using numbers, but the new twist of using a hexgrid ... and cheaper.

@roccov3614

Ай бұрын

@@Anson_AKB Thanks for the tip.

@Anson_AKB

Ай бұрын

@@roccov3614 and currently the "original" (shapez, including wires and programming) is even cheaper, with a -78% rebate for 3.24€ as a bundle of "game + puzzle DLC"

I think, I goota like this game very much ...

Definitely cool.

Shapez...with Numberz

@Anson_AKB

Ай бұрын

almost two years ago, the same developers already made such a "shapezio with numbers" game *_Beltex,_* but added the twist of a hexagonal playing field, and that one is even a little cheaper than this one. is this game worth it to buy yet another variant with a normal grid and probably less features than shapezio?

that's really cool, I hope there are android games like that

Looks like Shapes, but with numbers instead of shapes

I can see a main bus here.

The unique part is that you work with numbers . the rest is just shapez

is the music from the game? I love retro music

12:26 You could have got 2(2 + 2) and then added then 1(4+4) and then 1(8+2) that would be faster cause you got 3 adding steps but in your combo you got 4 18:11 You didnt connect the 4th add to 12 input 18:47 1 3extractor is connected to 2 add 2 3extractors are connected to 6 add 20:17 Realisation 22:12 Clearly your lack of organasing

why do you use each separate extractor for 1 with sumaa if it doesn't absorb quite a few units in a long time

its only 7 bucks, instant buy for me, thanks for showing. I used the link in the description, is that an affiliate link?

That's Beltex, but with a grid instead of "hexagrid"

@joshuaguenin9507

Ай бұрын

same developer

ahh yes. subtraction, also know as negative multiplier

This is literally Beltex, but squares instead of hexagons.

3:57 see it. Bought it. Played it thill 16 bc needed to go to bed. Watching this to 4 minutes in and finds out there are “UPGRADES” for “SPEED”?!?! Shit!!

Nice game, but as a part time ocd enjoyer, I have my trouble watching you build this 😅

nice, I purchased

Very nice :)

Is this from the same dev as Beltex? It looks very similar.

@Intrebute

Ай бұрын

I checked their steam page and it seems it is in fact developed by the same people that did Beltex. The reviews mention that it improves on the previous game. It seems the hex grid didn't end up panning out as a fun mechanic in the end.

@TitoRigatoni

Ай бұрын

@@Intrebute I have 18 hours in Beltex: can confirm, the hex grid was the worst part about the game

@milanstevic8424

Ай бұрын

@@TitoRigatoni Why?

Looks like square version of *Beltex* PS. ohh I see, both are from *Notional Games*

It's Shapez with numbers

I think Google was listening to me because today I mentioned I wanted another game like shapz and then this video was recommended to me like 20 minutes later…

Factory belt number 4 😮

Huh this is like a square version of beltex which uses hex grid

Name for the game: "Factorial" ;)

Wasn't this game initially using hexagons and on the diagonal?? 🤔

@gavin.d.m

Ай бұрын

That game is Beltex. This seems a direct copy other than is on squares.

@turkeylegs23

Ай бұрын

It’s the same developer

Factorio but for math majors :)

Try Industry Idle

Beltex !

At this point, just get a job at the factory.

Shapez Io but about numbers?)

As a Mindustry player some of the belt layouts pains me at how horrible they are

Mr. I new I like your vide so far but at 3:10 is it three 3

Why does this remind me of shapez

i want a mod that uses kaktovik numbers

sooo, shapez, but math

Shapez but with math

Is this what a calculator feels like?

But is it turing complete?

@taskfailedsuccesfully738

7 күн бұрын

More importantly, can you make a fully automatic factory? (Like a MaM in shapez)

6×7=42

I was right

Math factorio

Anybody know a game like this on mobile?

Could of just done (3x10)+1

22:30 was so painful to watch, you obviously don't understand how the bridges work. You make a lot of mistakes actually, kinda frustrating for someone whose literal job is to be good at these kinda games :/

@milanstevic8424

Ай бұрын

what is your job man?

@milanstevic8424

Ай бұрын

haha sry that was a genuine question, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. for some reason I thought you were the one whose job is to be good at these games, and I got curious... now that I've reread your post, I get what you meant...

@orbitalpotato

Ай бұрын

Not my job at all!

@Syvtek

26 күн бұрын

Do you know what sells games? Watching gameplay and saying to yourself "I can do better". Just about every mobile game ad does this.

this game looks like Mathletics tried to rip off ShapeZ

ngl you pissed me off so much because of how ineffective you are (sorry if you get offended)

12h

This looks like work, and for that reason, I'm out.

Fun game But man it could sure use a blueprint option!!

@csibesz07

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, like not having to redo each game your blueprints.