⚠ Prototype Version ⚠

This game is still in development

About

Machine Mayhem is an idle factory game. You can build machines to process materials that increase in complexity. Your goal is to build a Quantum Circuit!

I made this game to learn how to make web-based applications without needing a game engine or framework. I wanted to experiment and improve my web development skills. In the future I will continue creating bigger games, this is just a smaller experimental game :)

Starter Guide

You start with 3 free machines. A boiler, to generate steam, a furnace, to smelt ore into plates, and a miner, to mine ore.

The first thing you should do is try to get renewable steam. You can do this by setting the machines to the following:

Boiler: coal -> steam

Miner: steam -> coal

This system outputs both more coal & steam than what you put into it, so use it as a base to grow your factory. To set a recipe on a machine, click it's "Recipe" button, and choose a recipe on the right hand side.

Next you will want copper plates, to buy more machines. To get these renew-ably you can make a new miner to mine copper, and set the furnace to make copper plates. 
You can see all the recipes in the game by scrolling down. Try and unlock as many as you can!

Updated 4 days ago
Published 10 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorUnobtainableMelon
GenrePuzzle
Tagsauto, Crafting, Idle, Incremental, Tycoon
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish

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Comments

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Bug report:

select a recipe while you don't have the required reasource. The progress bar would go beyond the limit.

Thanks for the report! Will fix in the next version :)

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Need to be able to select "no recipe"

yes, its way to easy to softlock yourself by being forced to pick a recipe.

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Will fix soon, thank you for the feedback. Out of curiosity how did you get the soft lock to happen?

By producing more advanced materials then I had copper to supply, might have been on me for not going trough and changing the production lines properly rough! Sidenote, did manage to brick my first run by making to many furnaces and boilers, so I didnt have enough coppar for a miner xD

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Ahhh I see, thank you for the detailed response. Yeah, the option to remove a recipe would help a lot here to get unstuck. I might also make it possible to mine for more than just coal manually. Good insight, thank you :)

Glad I was able to help! :)

ok! will push that out in the next update.

Added and is live now. Thanks for playing :)

a tutorial would ben ice

it seeems that tin dust or crushed tin i dont know the name, cant be made into tin plates even tough it uses the resource

Got it, thank you. Gonna try and push out an update today to fix all this stuff.

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The bouncing borders (moving buttons all over the place) is a VERY serious issue...

You need to set static areas for inventory to fix it. (Set X values, as opposed to likely % based ones)

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Edit: found it, will get it fixed today

Could you be more specific about what the issue is? I don't quite understand what you mean. Also, I'm only using % based values for the progress bars, everything else, like the inventory is already static. (It has a min-width value of 338px for example). Thanks for the feedback though, I appreciate it. Wasn't expecting this much attention so early 😅

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Reporting an Issue here: used one battery and the entire machine field went blank/game became unplayable. 

Thanks for reporting that, I'm going to be updating all the recipes over the next week, there's probably a broken recipe in there somewhere. Thanks for playing though!