Kardashev

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Kardashev is a 3D factory automation game, set amongst a voxel asteroid belt.

Mechanically, players test their automation skills as they build out their factory and unlock new knowledge and upgrades through the tech tree. With omni-directional movement and a voxel generated game space, Kardashev functions with complete player freedom to build and optimize their factories.

Explore the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory! 

• Awaken in an endless procedurally generated asteroid belt. 

• Harvest ores and extract fuel scattered throughout the belt.

• Transform your resources into components and machinery.

• Shape your base the way you want, with fully destructible blocks.

• Challenge yourself to survive in the void of space, with fuel being a life-saving resource.

• Monitor your depleting fuel as you explore and refuel with unknown gas clouds.

• Protect yourself from the unforgiving nature of open space by crafting and placing heaters within your build.

• Automate your factory through infrastructure including transporter belts, pipes, inserters, splitters, and chests. 

• Upgrade your infrastructure for increased speed and size.

• Expand your reach with blueprints, capturing builds you want to take with you. 

• Save time with construction and logistic bots, deploying your vision.

• Upgrade from fuel to electricity, for faster and more powerful builds.

• Balance your resources and energy consumption with unique recipe requirements.

• Choose your tech-tree path and unlock new blocks and player advancements.

• Manage and track your factories output through dashboards, for perfect optimization.

• Build your factory how you want, with omni-directional movement meaning you can build up, down, left, right, forward and back. 

• Enjoy the benefits of space by placing blocks anywhere.

• Personalize your base with multiple cosmetic block shapes and textures.

• Enjoy access to everything in sandbox mode, and test late-game builds as soon as you like.

• Further story development and integration to raise the stakes!

• Enemies and combat, with player weapons, block weapons and player upgrades.

• New logistical infrastructure, with higher throughput, including a currently unnamed "Cargo Ship" and item teleporters.

• Advanced energy production systems, including Fusion technology and improved solar technology.

• Huge expansion of the tech tree, with more tech at every tier, and more late game interactions.

• Super-late-game interaction style to facilitate scaling up the higher reaches of the Kardashev Scale.

• A catalogue of unique cosmetic block textures so you can personalize your builds the way you want. 

• Adding in original music and sound designs transporting you into the belts of Kardashev.

• And much, much more! 

Vinyl Studios is a Australian based indie games studio. We’re a small team of four people and this is our first project as a team. Our goal is to make the best factory game for both casual and hardcore players.
We have a strict no AI art policy, all our art is digitally drawn by our team.
We would love for you to try our game, and appreciate any feedback (positive or negative) that you may have. Thank you, and good luck with ascending the Kardashev Scale!