Why not dig some mysteries, fight some monsters and make your way to the top of the career ladder?Īll reactor possibilities already explored? Here, have some different atoms on the same input. So does the storyline, you know, nothing can be ideal in a huge corporation and you hardly planned to just sit in the backyard as a Trainee. The view of a perfect working solution with molecules being constructed by waldos rushing around is no less then spellbinding!Īs you beat the tutorial and master all the given instructions, the gameplay evolves by adding new elements, modifying rules and giving new game modes. Later on you'll master asynchrony, loops, conditions and other things well known by programmers, but all these will only be magnificent routes with waldos doing some magic with atoms on the screen. It's hard not to see some educational profit but it also makes you feel like a genius chemist renowned while creating some radioactive materials from water and launching a nuclear missile.Īnother part of the game, "programming", is just about placing directions and instructions. The best part of having the chemistry as a decoration is that you often oversee real atoms and real, existing molecules that are properly named like Methane, Polyethylene, Chromite and others. There is a built-in periodic table in game with only the necessary numbers. You can create molecules that do not exist and you don't have to worry about the real possibility of these actions. Helium can not be bonded) and fuse or split atoms by their atomic numbers, but that's generally it. Yes, you can bond and unbond atoms with reference to their real bond numbers (e.g. Though the game uses real periodic table, the chemistry in it is substantially just a decoration. Most of this will be familiar in some way to those of you who have played "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering", a flash game by the developer of SpaceChem, Zachary Barth. The upper screenshot (or the tutorial video) provides this general picture in a more friendly view. And a stop button will just reset the level leaving everything you've built intact. Speaking of speed control: you can also pause the level manually or place the Pause instruction for a waldo - it will be executed as a waldo travels over it, this provides a big help in debugging complicated routes. The first speed is handy for the creation or debugging routes while the fourth is usefull to finish a well working level in seconds. There are few limitations on the rules of the game - each square can contain one instruction and direction changer of each color, atoms must not collide or be torn apart (by two waldos holding it and moving in different directions) or leave the game field and output must be supplied correctly.Īs you are required to create few decades of target elements, there are four steps in speed control.
You create a route that waldos will follow and drop some instructions on it - each waldo moves on matching color route and executes matching color instruction as it drives over it.
All manipulations are made with two "waldos" (red and blue) - game pointers that execute given instructions. You aquire atoms or molecules on the input and need to pass them in correct form to the output, for example there are oxygen and hydrogen atoms on inputs and one of the outputs must be supplied with water, so you must bond together two hydrogen and one oxygen and pass it to the output area. The reactor is divided into two main areas - inputs (alpha and beta) on the left and outputs (psi and omega) on the right. In the game you operate a reactor field (10*8 squares). Here is a short summary for some of you who do not know what the gameplay is really about: Surely there is a point in making your solution flawless, but we'll talk about it a bit later. BUT - there is a thing about it - "every solution is a right one"! You can always return to previous levels to try out new skills you've mastered.
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how do major commands work and you'll need to figure out how to make them work efficiently, how to reach their limits and how to optimize the solution. It should be noted that the tutorial covers only the basics, i.e. The first "level" of the tutorial just demonstrates basic game mechanics on youtube and the whole first campaign (6 levels) explains it to you step by step. SpaceChem, a former fishcake supplier - is the leading one and the player starts to work for the needs of humanity as a Trainee Reaction Engineer. In average distant future (about 2800) humanity is in need of quality chemicals and few corporations hold the front line of reactor engineering.
In this setting the player will find himself from the very beginning of the storyline. SpaceChem is a game about fake chemistry, programming, nuclear reactors and fishcakes.
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