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About this game
Shape Factory is a conveyor-belt automation puzzle inspired by factory builders. Mines emit four-quadrant shapes, and you route them through cutters, rotators, stackers and painters to match the contract shape exactly. Twenty handcrafted contracts teach one machine family at a time: plain delivery, cutting halves, rotating quadrants, stacking two flows into one, and dyeing every quadrant a new color. Later contracts chain four machine types into a single pipeline with two mines and a paint line feeding a shared stacker. Every machine you place counts against the contract PAR - beat it and the efficiency star is yours. A seeded endless mode generates legal contract chains from random machine transformations, so every goal is provably buildable, and same-seed challenge links put your factory up against a friend on identical contracts. Deterministic simulation, no timers, no fail states - just you, the grid, and the shape you promised to deliver.
How to play
Pick a machine from the toolbar and tap the grid to place it. Tap a placed machine to rotate it. Deliver the goal shape shown in the HUD to the amber hub. Finish with machines at or under PAR for the efficiency star.
Tips & Tricks
- Belt direction matters more than length - a wrong corner parks items forever.
- Cutters output two halves on two sides: plan where the waste half goes.
- A stacker fills only empty quadrants, so feed the fuller shape first.
- Paint after cutting, not before - dye does not survive a cut.
- Endless contracts are always solvable with the machines on the map - scout both mines first.
Frequently asked questions
What do the machines do?
Miners pull shapes from deposits, belts move them, cutters split them into halves, rotators turn quadrants clockwise, stackers combine two shapes quadrant by quadrant, painters dye them, and trash disposes of leftovers.
How do I get the efficiency star?
Finish the contract using machines at or under the PAR number shown in the HUD. The PAR equals the authored solution's machine count.
What are the quadrant codes in the goal preview?
Each quadrant is a shape and a color. Empty slots stay empty after stacking, so read the preview closely before building.
Is every endless contract actually buildable?
Yes. Contracts are generated by applying the same transformations your machines perform to shapes from the map's own deposits, so a solution always exists.
How do challenge links work?
Finishing an endless run creates a link with the seed and your score. Whoever opens it plays the identical contract sequence and can compare scores.
