Chief operating engineer Ivan is looking smart and humbled, wearing a suit and a smile. And yet, he cannot hide his inner shining of pride. At last, his professional love child, the mighty KOTOVOD, is re-opening its doors! It has been closed for decades, with cats all over the world left idle and misunderstood by their human companions. Well, this era of frustration is coming to an end! The KOTOVOD was conceived and constructed back in the socialist era. The scientists of that time have had a theory that cats were actually sentient beings, which brought them to creating an ambitious project: a scientific factory which would help humans understand what their cats really want and what they have to say. After the Union collapsed, the factory fell into oblivion. But thanks to cutting edge technology, humanity was given a second chance to finally find a common tongue with their furry friends! Old machines are empowered by modern science: cats needs and desires are analysed by a complicated machine learning algorithm that helps build a better factory for a brighter feline future. Chief scientific officer, Dr. Katz, was not available for an interview, being heads down busy with his scientific endeavours in his office. He did send a short note to commemorate the glorious day: Iz going az planned. Iz going good. Sorry kant haz interviewz, very bizi doing reserch wit my hooman fingerz (not cat paws haha). Kalculating very stronk. Oh, iz that a mouze?..

Learning Factory: Alpha Is Live!

Gameplay

• Players can now build multiple cat shops at their factories
• Refined shops' mechanics: 4 goods can be sold simultaneously in each shop, with an option to assign individual price for each goods type
• Introducing the Research Tree
• Certain resource types (money, raw data, data features and articles) are now displayed in virtual format and no longer appear as objects on the game's map
• Introducing optical fibers that will help join certain production chains into clusters. NB: they don't actually work in this first version, but they still look neat
• New cat generating algorithm (NB: again, not very functional yet, but pretty)
• Each building now has a different demolishing time. That said, one won't be able to accidentally destroy a brand new show with one click anymore, and deleting useless transporter tiles is faster and easier than ever before
• Destroying element sources (such as piles of iron or apple trees) now gives a larger amount of respective elements

Interface & Graphics

• UI has been reworked in many ways. Still, there are a lot of placeholder items at this stage, so if something is not working, then maybe it's not supposed to, yet
• Crafting queue is now available in the inventory
• Quick saving the game with a 'Ctrl+S' keyboard shortcut is now available
• New and improved hot keys: press 'T' to open the Research Tree or use 'Esc' to close all windows
• The first animated piece of machinery: basic manipulator is now capable of visually manipulating objects:

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