Ronan Gaillard
A game about building factories and designing production processes on the Nintendo DS.
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WHAT IT DOES
What does it do?
Factory DS is a factory building game for the Nintendo DS that runs on a flashcart in a physical DS or in the melonDS emulator. Players mine resources and place drills, furnaces, conveyor belts, and inserters. The game also includes power facilities, oil processing, research technologies, and trains.
KEY FEATURES
Key features
- Mine resources and place drills, furnaces, belts, and inserters
- Build a power grid with generators, solar panels, batteries, and other equipment
- Process oil using pumps, pipes, and refineries
- Research 16 technologies with research packs and laboratories
- Move with the directional pad and play without a stylus
EDITOR'S NOTE
Why did it stand out?
To fit a large factory building world into the Nintendo DS's limited memory, it calculates terrain from coordinates and stores only the parts players change. The device's constraints shaped how the game represents its world.