August 27th, 2024 Livestream
Q&A: What inspires Satisfactory?
This question may have been asked previously at least 3 other times, as recently as September 2023 and as early as May 2021.
- September 29th, 2023 Video Q&A: What inspired you to make this game? https://youtube.com/embed/lK-kN8QOrJw?autoplay=1&start=1204&end=1238
- March 14th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: How did you folks come up with the idea of Satisfactory, is it inspired by Factorio? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep2uHEAC-DQ
- May 4th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: Is Satisfactory inspired by Factorio? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgSK2Le_eQ
This question has 3 related videos
- July 6th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: Are you & your colleagues looking up to some other indie games? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5BV2FL0T0
- June 8th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: What games have you played that inspired Satisfactory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDo5O-Jr-Y
- January 26th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: How did you come up with the idea of making Satisfactory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-xhTN4-0Q
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bits wants to know what inspires Factory three drunk devs and a box full of Lego, it's it's like a couple of things it's like factorio was a big inspiration, and, I wasn't there at the time I don't fully I'm like telling you the story that's been told to me but it's it's like a combination of like factorio in 3D would be cool but like what would be the limitations of that, and, the you know the general like Factory building with like sub subnotica Vibes sort of, first person, and I and I think like we we initially wanted to make it first person but we were always like Curious like would it work as a third person play playable game and like could we do both and we had like a there was one period in time where we were testing like three three third person and we were like nope let's commit to first person because we thought it was more interesting, and it was too much work to have like both so, yeah easy