FORM — Factory Operations & Resource Management

FORM

**Factory Operations & Resource Management**

## Make a little. Build a lot.

One miner. A spark of power. Your first piece of iron rolling down a conveyor.

FORM is a minimalist 2D factory-building game about turning small connections into a working industrial world. Mine resources, shape conveyor routes, wire up machines, and grow from a simple outpost into an orbital supply operation—all in your browser.

Every new product gives you another problem to solve. Where should the coal go? Which line needs a bridge? Is production waiting for materials, or have you outgrown your power supply?

Build it. Watch it run. Make it better.

## From raw ore to orbit

- **Start with the essentials.** Extract iron, copper, coal, sand, and sulfur from unlimited deposits.

- **Make the connections.** Drag conveyors through corners. Organize your factory with splitters, routers, junctions, storage, tunnels, linked bridges, and configurable smart sorters.

- **Power every production line.** Feed coal plants, add solar arrays, and connect machines through cables and power poles. An overloaded network slows production.

- **Research what comes next.** Unlock smelting, assembly, kilns, silicon, glass, graphite, steel, processors, and aerospace components.

- **Build toward a real objective.** Complete nine contracts for credits and research data, then load and launch a supply rocket to the orbital station. Keep the factory running for rewarding repeat missions.

- **Find your bottlenecks.** Check production rates, blocked outputs, and machines without power in the production report.

## Your factory, your pace

Choose **New expedition** for guided progression and a step-by-step tutorial, or **Creative sandbox** for all research unlocked and a generous starting budget.

Pause to plan, speed up the simulation, copy a machine's setup, or drag a demolition rectangle to dismantle a section with gradual refunds. Adjustable music, sound effects, and reduced-motion options let you settle into your own rhythm.

## Play in your browser

**Desktop browser · Single-player · Keyboard and mouse**

No installation or account is required to play. Your factory saves in your current browser. Use save export/import to keep a backup or move to another device or browser. Progress does not continue while the game is closed.

### Quick controls

| Action | Control |

| --- | --- |

| Build / draw conveyors | Left click / drag |

| Select an area to dismantle | Right click and drag |

| Rotate / rotate backward | R / Shift+R |

| Copy the building under your cursor | Q |

| Connect power cables | E |

| Research / production report | T / P |

| Power-grid overlay | G |

| Move the camera | WASD, arrow keys, or middle drag |

| Zoom | Mouse wheel |

| Pause / resume | Space |

| Inspect / cancel pending demolition | Escape |

## Development build

This is **version 0.4**, a playable game still in development. Expect balancing and presentation to evolve. Feedback about conveyor behavior, progression, and confusing controls is especially welcome.

**What will your first factory become?