Frustration Factory

Devlog

• Six new achievements added
  May 31, 2025 by frostedaxe

  Six new achievements added. Good luck finding them all... Continue reading
• Minor "Frustration Factory" update featuring in-game settings
  May 26, 2025 by frostedaxe

  New settings screen for volume control and whether or not to play level introductions Reordered week 3 levels based on feedback about difficulty misc bug fixes... Continue reading
• Bug fix release: level-over screen showed incorrect stars
  May 21, 2025 by frostedaxe

  The level completed window previously could occasionally show an incorrect star achievement count – now fixed... Continue reading
• New version of Frustration Factory: 0.5.03
  May 19, 2025 by frostedaxe#bugfix, #release

  New: New sounds! When pieces enter the truck or fall from a container. Bug fixes: the 3-star time displayed improperly displayed the seconds value the demo version won’t wipe out saved games from th... Continue reading
• Frustration Factory has a side benefit? Concentration improvements?
  May 13, 2025 by frostedaxe#benefit, #factory, #concentration

  An interesting side affect of play testing my own game: since I designed Frustration Factory to challenge your concentration and ability to focus, I think playing it actually has improved my own conce... Continue reading
• It's alive: Frustration Factor initial release
  May 09, 2025 by frostedaxe#release

  This game is a pure labor of love from many months of development. I’m proudly releasing version 0.5 today. There are 28 very playable levels to date and I have many more plans for future levels as... Continue reading

  
• Ensuring every level is possible to 3-star
  May 07, 2025 by frostedaxe#play, #testing

  I’m finally (almost) done with level design for the full release. Now… I just have to play my own game a ton to make sure I can 3-star every level. Because if I can’t, who can? It’s also a gre... Continue reading

  
• The hardest part of game development? tutorials. ugh.
  April 22, 2025 by frostedaxe#development, #tutorial, #play test

  Tutorials are hard One might think that it takes a long time to write the code, do graphic design, design the levels, create good game mechanics, find all the bugs in everything. And you wouldn’t be... Continue reading

  
• Frustration Factory version 0.3.5 demo now available
  April 21, 2025 by frostedaxe#release, #download, #bugfix, #improvement

  Version 0.3.5 fixes a number of bugs and has an improved fake visual mouse click for the introduction/tutorials. Also: the linux version should work on much older versions of linux (unlike the 0.3 rel... Continue reading

  
• Get addicted to your game
  April 18, 2025 by frostedaxe#psychology, #playing, #thinking, #success

  One thing I’ve found lately is that when I launch a level to test the mechanics, timing, piece under development, … is that I’m often having to force myself to stop playing the level once my deb... Continue reading

  
• The stars are not aligning
  April 15, 2025 by frostedaxe#development

  The title is what my best beta tester told me. And he wasn’t wrong. The stars weren’t aligned. You know the 90/10 rule that says 90% of your time will be spent on the last 10% of a project? Yeah... Continue reading

  
• Announcing "Frustration Factory"
  April 13, 2025 by frostedaxe#announcement

  Do you have the patience and concentration to manage chaos? Then this entry level conveyor belt operator job is for you. Hop into the factory, assemble the day’s products and ship them off to the cu... Continue reading