You can also make and teach robots how to do anything you can do, which is aces. Well, you can when the game's further along for now you can only start a forestry and cereal farming, and provide shelter and food for the folk. But from these humble beginnings you can build and automate an entire civilisation. In this basic world you will find earth, sand, sea, fresh water, clay, rock, trees and cereal - and the resident folk, who are content to sit around in the buff, doing nothing.Īnd speaking of nothing, that's exactly what you start with. Use WASD to move around, Q/E to move up and down and Left Shift to move faster the Mouse Scroll Wheel zooms in/out Up/Down Arrow changes movement speed.
E brings up the Edit Menu, which is where you choose what to build note that some things can only be built on flooring.H brings up the 'Hot Bar' so you can quickly swap items between your hands and your Inventory./ or Q stows the held item (assuming there's space in your inventory) so you can use your empty hands for other tasks.
( ) cycle forwards and backwards through your inventory (to swap the item in your hands). Holding Left Shift and clicking an object will automatically swap between hands /inventory or player/bot.
If you like what you see, play and automate here, check out the full version on Steam! How to Play This pre-pre-pre-Alpha release is lacking refinement and presentation - and it can take some getting into - but under the rough edges there's a great example of what we're doing and where we're going. But their most important creations are workerbots, which can be made from the crudest of materials and taught to do anything an Autonaut can do so they can get on with helping species evolve. They harness whatever natural resources are available they learn fast and can eventually make pretty much anything from anything. The 'Automationauts' (to give them their fuller, granderer, longerwindederer title) travel the universe with the sole goal of setting worlds in motion through the power of automation. The Change Log for all versions to date can be viewed HERE. The latest stable Autonauts prototype is 21.2, with or without lighting depending on your video card :) This itch.io space is dedicated to the prototype only.
Please don't post about the Steam version here, not when there's such a lovely space to do that in the Autonauts Steam Community.
If you're interested in more, click the image below to be taken to the full release on Steam! PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Welcome to the Autonauts Prototype! We haven't updated it since the end of 2017 and have no plans to do anything else with it, but here it remains for posterity (or a crude introduction to what the game's about).