[WIP]Kaipabots - Testversion 2.0.1

🤖 Kaipa Bots

A Factorio-style automation game in deep space – powered by Love2D

⚠️ Work-in-Progress Build – Feedback Welcome!

This is an early test build of Kaipa Bots, a factory-building and logistics sim set in the distant Kuiper Belt. You control a small autonomous robot, sent to prepare a colossal asteroid for interstellar travel—but as you begin extracting resources, something ancient wakes up beneath the surface...

If you're into automation games, space exploration, optimization puzzles, and light mystery, I’d love for you to give it a spin and let me know what breaks (or shines ✨).

🛠️ Core Gameplay

• Explore a procedurally generated field of asteroids
• Build factories and production chains across multiple rocks
• Each asteroid runs on its own simulation thread
• Logistics between asteroids (think space trains… without rails)
• Manage power via batteries, solar panels, and fuel generators
• A mysterious black pyramid offers infinite energy—but also danger...
• 💡 Eventually, you'll turn a massive asteroid into a launch vessel to escape the solar system – not implemented yet, but core systems are being built toward it

💡 Key Features

• Save/load support, autosaves & quicksaves
• Unique early-game energy mechanics (batteries power your first machines)
• Targeted multithreading: each asteroid simulates independently
• Background threading handles save upgrades, autosave cleanup, etc.
• Modding & multiplayer-friendly engine (SP only for now)
• 20+ hours of content in its current form
• Built with Love2D from scratch

👾 Why It’s Here

This build is playable and packed with content—but still rough around the edges. UI needs refinement, balance is ongoing, and the polish pass hasn’t happened yet.

I’m looking for:

• General feedback (fun? confusing? buggy?)
• Bug reports or performance issues
• Ideas for improving usability or pacing
• Your impression of the story/mystery elements

📣 Join the Community

💬 Join the Discord to report bugs, share feedback, and help shape the game.

💻 System Info

• Windows EXE (no install, standalone folder)
• Save/Options/Error folders stay local (no AppData mess)
• Mouse + keyboard controls (customizable soon)
• Controller support planned as accessibility feature

Thanks for checking this out! Whether you’re a fellow dev, a factory sim fan, or just someone who loves building stuff in space—I’d really value your input.

— MechnicusKai