Wait what... esc closes the game ???? Probably because I copied the main class from an old project...

Thanks for you feedback. Indeed, I spent more time making conveyors work properly (6 days) than balancing the game (1h...), and ~1 day making machine, consumer, generators, walls, (bad, mmmmh silicon) graphics. (the rest of the time, I tried making a runner game but I dropped this idea because I hate physics...). 

In my mind, the player should have pay a rent for every tile (so the player is forced to create a running factory to pay this rent) and every block should have a maintenance cost, as well an electricity cost or things like that. I had other ideas where the player should manage contracts with producers and consumers competing with other fictitious factories. In brief, many things to prevent the player to just produce one item and wait.

Hi, I've updated the description of the game, in the hope that it will help you understand it better. Thank you.

I didn't really like it. It was too horrifying for me (I hate horror) and the movement speed is too high: I can't pass the platforms to get the blue key. But art is nice! Plus, for some reason, it doesn't work on my windows (probably because it's 8.1) but it works on Linux with wine, and I love it when a windows program works on Linux eh eh!

It's cool that you made your own game engine! I also tried to use my (very basic) 2D engine for this jam. Unfortunately, it has a major bug, and I needed to switch to a library...

Also, your game works perfectly on linux (my windows doesn't support Vulkan lol).

Thanks for playing, the flower were inspired by plant vs zombies, but I think the Cuphead's Floral Fury boss works...

Thank for this comment, I really appreciate this detailed post!

For the rules, because the SBS rule always says if a cell needs to change his state, the next rule is ignored. In fact, the program was supposed to support pattern rule where you define for all cell with a state n a pattern. And if the neighborhood of this a cellmatch the pattern, his value is changed (or not). Then the algorithm process the next cell. If the pattern doesn't match, the programm try another rule. And that's while there is a plus button and an option for multiple rules. Unfortunately for technical (slow) and interface (bad ui) reasons, I had to remove this rules.

For the exception, that's because the program failed to load images which are in the jar.  But I doesn't know why. This is mysterious. I will investigate this weekend.

I mean open a console with win+R and write cmd. Press enter. Then go to the folder where automat.jar is. And finally type 'java -jar automata.jar'. 

when you launch a terminal and write 'java -jar automata.jar' what append?

Which platform? Did you install java 16?

Which platform? Did you install java 16?

No, because all "components" are hand made, I don't work too much on accessibility.

Thank you.

If the exception is an IOException, it's probably due to the save system. In fact, when the program start, I store in a Path object the following path: System.getenv("APPDATA") + "/Robo". But APPDATA is only for windows. Then, it crashes my program. I tought it works for all platform because I read quickly the answer in this stackoverflow question.

If this isn't an IOExceptio or if the exception don't append, when the program try to save, I do not know and in this case I would like to know it.

Thank you.