We got rid of the steam power generation but there are huge areas of nukes all over. The air is black with robots, 100k of them at the moment. I mean we've built hell and the kid doesn't mind. One thing that's interesting is that the game is a bit, you know, dark.

He also understands how to find root causes now, based on looking at where there's a blockage in production and tracking back along the chain. That engineer keep-stuff-organized thing takes a bit of time to hone, but he's getting there. The kid loves it, but you can (luckily) tell the difference between what he makes and what I make. Maybe you make some blueprints and you're placing a whole set of nuke power plants in one go, or looking at trains. You then move up the abstractions to where you're not really placing inserters all the time. You fiddle with tiny little things like balancing a belt, and then move on to building belt balancers. It really reminds me of software in many ways. Good game to multi because I don't have to pay attention all the time.

Got into it over Christmas based on HN talking about it all the time. I'm literally playing Factorio right now, with my kid.

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