Factorio Interview: Michal Kovařík (Kovarex) - Czech with English Subtitles
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An interview (Czech with English subtitles) with Kovarex, the founder of Wube software and the mind behind Factorio videogame. Factorio 2.0 free upgrade will...

For me, the most interesting point was the short mention of open sourcing Factorio (around 2:40). Kovarex seems to be very much open to the idea, he mentions that (as an approximation) maybe two years after the DLC after things calm down …

  • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Fun to see that a proto-inspiration was minecraft with industrial mods. That’s how I got into Factorio. I was talking to a coworker in 2015, and I mentioned that I loved the combined automation aspect of industrialcraft, buildcraft, and immersion engineering, but I found it annoying that it had gotten harder and harder to find a minecraft version that was compatible with newer versions of all three. So he suggested I give Factorio a try.