Reactorcore's Personal Game Design Project

Astro Industry Freelancer

Engineering Sandbox Simulation

Experience the ultimate industrial engineering fantasy in a peaceful universe where you pilot powerful vehicles, shape terrain, and solve creative problems without pressure. Build factories, explore space, and help fellow beings across infinite star systems in this revolutionary sandbox that breaks free from traditional progression limitations.

đŸ› ī¸ Target Audience

Engineers, builders, and creative problem-solvers who enjoy relaxed, pressure-free gameplay. Perfect for players who want to experience the satisfaction of operating heavy machinery and solving logistics puzzles without combat, time limits, or failure states.

⚡ Game's Purpose

Fulfills the fundamental human need for creative expression and mastery. Provides the fantasy of piloting industrial vehicles and engineering solutions in a universe where your creativity and problem-solving skills are the only limits.

đŸ—ī¸ Core Concept

"Bob the Builder in Space" - Unlimited creativity with powerful tools in a procedurally generated universe. Every job is unique, every solution is yours to discover, and every success feels genuinely earned through ingenuity.

🌌 Lore & Story

đŸ›ī¸ The Galactic Commonwealth

Set in the distant future within the Milky Way Galaxy's golden age, where humanity and allied alien species have formed a peaceful galactic civilization. This post-scarcity society has achieved biological immortality, eliminated crime through education and empathy, and created a resource-based economy where automation handles all mundane labor.


Technology has advanced to include faster-than-light travel, sentient AI companions, and comprehensive terraforming capabilities, while maintaining grounded scientific principles. However, FTL becomes ineffective near large gravity wells, necessitating conventional propulsion for planetary operations - creating the perfect environment for industrial freelancing.


In this universe, matter is never created nor destroyed, only transformed. The cosmos itself operates on exchange-based principles, where cosmic recycling maintains universal balance through natural forces that redistribute material between stable galactic zones and the mysterious "wilderness" regions at the universe's curved edges.


🤖 Your Role as Digital Consciousness

You exist as a digitized human consciousness - a transferred mind that can inhabit various robotic bodies across the galaxy. This technological advancement allows for true immortality through backup systems, letting you take on dangerous or challenging engineering projects without fear of permanent death.


Your modular robot bodies can be customized for any task, from deep-space mining operations to delicate planetary construction projects. When your current chassis is damaged beyond repair, your consciousness simply transfers to a backup body, retaining all memories and experiences from your previous work.


This unique existence allows you to bridge the gap between human creativity and machine precision, making you invaluable as an independent contractor in a universe where most citizens prefer safer, more comfortable pursuits.


âš™ī¸ The Industrial Frontier

While galactic civilization has solved most social and economic problems, the physical universe still requires hands-on engineering. Planets need terraforming, space stations require construction, asteroid fields await mining, and natural disasters demand rapid response solutions.


Most citizens, content with their abundant leisure lives, prefer to delegate these challenging tasks to specialized freelance engineers like yourself. This creates endless opportunities for meaningful work that directly improves galactic infrastructure and quality of life.


The procedural nature of your contracts ensures that no two engineering challenges are identical. From underwater mining on oceanic worlds to orbital megastructure assembly, each job presents unique environmental conditions, resource constraints, and creative problem-solving opportunities.

đŸ•šī¸ Controls & Interface

Intuitive Vehicle Operation: Point-and-click interface for operating industrial vehicles, with context-sensitive controls that adapt to each machine's capabilities.


Character Control: Direct your modular robot engineer through various environments
Vehicle Piloting: Seamless entry/exit system for excavators, haulers, spacecraft, and specialized equipment
Tool Usage: Simple interaction system for crafting, building, and terrain manipulation
Universe Navigation: Streamlined travel between planets, systems, and job locations

As a digitized consciousness, you can instantly transfer between robot bodies, customize your equipment loadout, and approach each engineering challenge with complete freedom. The interface prioritizes clarity and accessibility - complex under the hood, simple to master.

"The satisfaction of moving mountains with big machines"

đŸ—ī¸ Game Structure

1 Moment-to-Moment Gameplay

Direct control of industrial vehicles and tools to manipulate the environment. Excavate terrain, transport materials, assemble structures, and solve immediate engineering challenges using physics-based interactions. Every action has satisfying visual and audio feedback that makes operating heavy machinery feel authentic and powerful.

2 Low Metagame

Individual job contracts create focused problem-solving scenarios across diverse environments. Each contract has unique parameters - from underwater mining operations to orbital construction projects - with loose success criteria that encourage creative solutions. Stories emerge naturally from the challenges you overcome and the methods you devise.

3 High Metagame

Revolutionary procedural job generation system creates infinite meaningful campaigns without repetition. The universe evolves based on your completed projects, opening new regions, introducing advanced challenges, and generating interconnected storylines that span multiple contracts while maintaining complete player agency.

4 Practical Game Flow

Launch game → Browse available contracts → Select based on mood/interest → Travel to location → Analyze challenge → Gather resources and equipment → Apply creative engineering solution → Complete job and receive thanks → Seamlessly transition to next adventure. Perfect for both quick 30-minute sessions and extended exploration periods.

🎮 Game Modes

📋 Freelance Mode

Take on diverse engineering contracts across the universe. Each job provides clear objectives with multiple solution paths, letting you choose between efficiency, creativity, or spectacle. Build reputation through successful completions and unlock access to more ambitious projects.

🚀 Exploration Mode

Venture into uncharted regions to discover resources, anomalies, and opportunities at your own pace. Document findings, establish resource extraction operations, and uncover the mysteries of abandoned installations without any external pressure or deadlines.

🏭 Sandbox Mode

Unlimited resources for pure creative building and experimentation. Test engineering concepts, build massive projects, and push the physics simulation to its limits. Perfect for players who want to focus purely on the creative and technical aspects without resource gathering.

âš™ī¸ Features & Mechanics

đŸ”ī¸ Destructible Terrain System

Comprehensive environmental manipulation allowing you to excavate, reshape, and build upon any surface. The terrain system supports underground mining operations, tunnel construction, and large-scale landscape modification. Resource deposits are logically distributed in geological layers, making exploration and extraction feel authentic.

Surface Layer Rock Formation Deep Minerals Excavation Routes Resource Deposits

🚚 Modular Vehicle Assembly

Build and customize vehicles from standardized components to match specific job requirements. Mix and match chassis, engines, tools, and specialized equipment to create everything from massive mining operations to precise construction platforms. Each combination offers unique capabilities and handling characteristics.

Power Unit Tool Module Mobility System Modular Assembly

🎲 Procedural Job Generation

Revolutionary content generation system that creates infinite meaningful contracts without repetition. Each job is contextually generated based on universe state, available technology, and player history, ensuring that every challenge feels purposeful and organically integrated into the larger world narrative.

Job Gen Environment Player Skills Universe State Mining Contract Construction Job Rescue Mission Infinite Content Pipeline

🌌 Seamless Universe Traversal

Travel freely between planetary surfaces, orbital stations, asteroid fields, and deep space locations without loading screens or artificial barriers. Your equipment, resources, and vehicles move with you, creating a truly connected universe where every decision and investment carries forward.

Hub Planet A Planet B Asteroid Station Direct Routes Seamless Travel

🧩 Physics-Based Problem Solving

Every engineering challenge can be approached through multiple solution paths using realistic physics simulation. Whether you prefer brute force demolition, precise engineering, or creative improvisation, the physics system supports your approach and provides satisfying feedback for creative solutions.

Obstacle Goal Go Over Go Around Go Through Go Under Multiple Solutions Possible

🤖 Automation & Logistics Networks

Design and deploy automated systems to handle resource gathering, processing, and transportation. Create self-sustaining supply chains that support larger projects while you focus on the creative engineering challenges. The automation scales from simple conveyor systems to complex multi-step manufacturing processes.

Raw Material Extract Refine Craft Store Automated Feedback Loop Resource Flow Network

"Every job contract tells a new story in an infinite universe"

đŸŽ¯ Development Insights

📚 Creative DNA

15+ Game Inspirations: Drawing from classics like Astroneer, Factorio, Freelancer, and Subnautica to create something entirely new. No combat, no time pressure, no failure states - just pure engineering satisfaction.


Fisher Price Philosophy: Designed for "toddler-level simplicity" with surprising depth. Every system is intuitive enough for anyone to understand, yet sophisticated enough to support complex engineering solutions.


Revolutionary Metagame: Breaks the traditional "early-mid-endgame" progression trap by providing full content access from the start, with infinite procedural campaigns that maintain meaning and narrative coherence.

Astro Industry Freelancer

Step into the boots of an immortal robot engineer in a universe where every problem has a solution waiting to be discovered. Pilot massive industrial vehicles, reshape entire landscapes, and build automated systems that span star systems.


No combat. No pressure. Pure creativity.


Experience the satisfaction of heavy industry without the limitations of traditional progression systems. Every contract is unique, every solution is yours, and every success opens new possibilities in an infinite procedurally generated universe.


Enjoy safe, toyful engineering simulation that takes it easy.