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[Levi]

Its out!  But its early access, so I guess its not done.     The page says it'll be 3 to 6 months until its out of Early Access.

[Drakale]

Well, it seem pretty good, but I'm just at the tutorial levels :p I liked the intro.

Seem like the spacechem score sharing thing is not active yet, but will be implemented later. One of the best features of spacechem imo, glad it will be back in.

[Calech]

Well, first impression is that it's what you might get if Portal, Spacechem, and Minecraft had a baby.

The puzzles are interesting thus far, however one thing that has been conspicuously absent so far is

Spoiler: Spoiler for both Infinifactory and Spacechem (click to show/hide)

factory-based dealings with eldritch horrors. Although maybe it's just the tutorial and first area that are missing them... still haven't gotten too far in

The story is told through audio logs this time, although one thing I would like to see in the finished version is subtitles (or, at the least, audio transcripts once the logs have been found). Not really a big deal for me, and the logs so far have been thematically appropriate (at least the ones I can understand - my language abilities don't extend that far).

Working with timings and setups in three dimensions is even more awkward sometimes than in two; my Spacechem solutions (especially late-game) tended to look like red and blue spaghetti as I made use of as much space as I needed (what's 'efficiency'?), and when you have to worry about putting physical obstructions in the path of your components... it gets a little tangled.

Oh! Also if you're a Minecraft player you may need to get used to the controls as they're basically the reverse of them (left click places, right click removes). On the plus side when you accidentally remove a block you can just hit Z to undo - good luck trying that in MC when you accidentally flood your redstone contraptions.

[h3lblad3]

Zachtronics is great, he made the Codex of Alchemical Engineering and some other really intense programming games in flash.  Didn't he make Infiniminer too?  He did make Infiniminer, as the linked page says.  I didn't play it much but it was a freeware 2-team, class-based competitive minecraft (not a mod, in fact it might have predated minecraft slightly?)  This is probably related.

AFAIK Infiniminer was in inspiration for minecraft.

People used to refer to Minecraft as an Infiniminer knockoff.

Some of us still do if the two come up in a conversation...

Memories are fickle.

[Warmist]

Just posting to say that i really liked it and wish that it was weekend to play the shit out of it....

Also first 100 completionists (100% done) will get an iron patch from the creator Zach.

[alway]

Well, just did a 100% of it; it's pretty great, and I look forward to the rest of it. Not too hard, nor patronizingly easy like most "puzzle" games. I found the most entertaining part was building assembly stations with lots of moving parts. Pistons on pistons and so on, with welders flying around into place and giving the whole thing a robotic factory vibe. Difficulty and complexity curves are about right; though there's a couple in the last set which are a bit too easy. There's a few simple tricks for assembly of a bunch of same-block parts, so I'm kind of hoping future puzzles have both much larger objects and more heterogeneous parts.

Edit: And while I posted this, it seems it updated, and how has a 'test zone' inserted in there, for free-build testing of ideas. Also modified the level introducing rotators (makes sense, that one was a bit of a difficulty spike out of the blue early on), so you need to redo that to unlock them again. They also made the sensors silent instead of the constant PLING PLING PLING PLING PLING.

[varsovie]

Well, first impression is that it's what you might get if Portal, Spacechem, and Minecraft had a baby.

Loved spacechem, even if it made me nosebleeding trying to optimize everything. :p

[McDonald]

So, what have you guys made in the Test Zone? I saw that Notch managed to create a Rule 110 generation algorithm. In response, I just finished up a Turing Machine that can perform the Busy Beaver function with 4 states. Might make it 5, but not sure if the game would crash at that scale (4098 1's and 8191 0's over 47,176,870 steps versus the 13 1's and 1 0 over 107 steps for 4 states). Will nab pictures when it stops slowly killing my computer.

EDIT: Can't do it at 5. Game deletes blocks after 500 are off of the edge of the screen (invisible wall), so no way to get nearly the size of tape that I need for this to work.

Ah, I know some of these words!

[alway]

Well, I confirmed that you can build a 6-axis inchworm-drive. Further, there's a lot you can do with the fact that factory parts you place will themselves behave exactly like blocks you're processing if not attached to the ground.

[alway]

Hehehe, just got a footprint score of 141 on the Terrestrial Drone level. As in the really tricky level.

[McDonald]

I'm at the level where you have to replace a ship's engines. A built a gigantic clusterfuck which destroys the engines and then gets new engines, places them at ship level, puts them one after another in place, welds them, redirects new blocks to the other side, again arranges them and welds, then pistons down welders from above which weld the engines to the ship. All while shredding 3/4s of input.

This turned out to be so slow that the next ship comes in and is welded to the first one. Delaying tactics managed to allow me to construct 7-8 ships before this happens. I LOVE this game.

By the way, is it running slower and slower over time for you? It eats up more resources than most games I play.

[Drakale]

It does eat a lot of ressource on my pc, but it only get slower as I add parts, like that one map where I did a really over complicated system, with a footprint of around 600.

[MagmaMcFry]

PTW. Got the game yesterday, played it through already. So awesome.

[Meta]

Oh my... the first major update is out!
http://zachtronics.com/infiniupdate-1/

Spoiler: Full patch notes (click to show/hide)

FULL PATCH NOTES

Not everything we added in this update was cool enough to warrant a screenshot. Here's a list of everything in this update!
NEW CONTENT

    A new mini-campaign, The Heist, has been added to the game. It adds seven puzzles to the game and introduces a new mechanic, teleportation, and a new block type, the upside-down conveyor.

NEW FEATURES

    A simple area selection tool has been added, which allows you to quickly select a group of blocks and move or delete it with a single click. It is available in the block menu and can be added to the hotbar.
    Voice-over captions are now available, and can be turned on in the options menu.
    You can now crouch by holding the jetpack descend key when on the ground. Now you can see the underside of blocks you could previously only imagine!
    You can now rate user-created puzzles in the score window that shows immediately after solving them.
    You can now scroll through custom and user-created puzzles.
    Your save file is now automatically backed up, in case a power outage, computer crash, or 12 year-old hacker corrupts your save file.
    An option to disable anti-aliasing has been added to the options menu. It is still on by default.
    A volume slider to turn down the ambient background sounds has been added to the options menu. There were so many requests for this!

BALANCE FIXES

    A handful of puzzles from the second, third, and fifth planets have been tweaked to be easier to solve. As a result, you may have to re-solve some of them.
    Platform blocks can no longer be eviscerated. Our deepest condolences go out to the scuzz block enthusiast community.

BUG FIXES

    Changes to input rate are now included as undo/redo events.
    A bug that caused animated GIFs to record as solid gray images on OS X has been fixed.
    Many bugs involving the block simulation and audio have been fixed.