SuperWEIRD COOP IS OUT!!!
Hi, machine learning specialists! Today we’re stepping a little outside while True: learn() to share the biggest news from the project our team is actively working on right now. It’s called SuperWEIRD. It has a different world, clumsy robots, production chains, and considerably m
Hi, machine learning specialists!
Today we’re stepping a little outside while True: learn() to share the biggest news from the project our team is actively working on right now. It’s called SuperWEIRD. It has a different world, clumsy robots, production chains, and considerably more suspicious goo, but the basic principle may feel familiar: you build a clever system, press the button, and immediately discover several outcomes that were definitely not in the training dataset. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818770/SuperWEIRD/ For anyone seeing it for the first time, SuperWEIRD is an automation roguelite about building production chains, commanding robots, rebuilding a broken planet with Tetris-like pieces, and trying to stop the Corruption known as Goofy Goo.
SuperWEIRD now has co-op
We’ve just launched our very first proper co-op build. Naturally, everything started falling apart almost immediately. Shortly before release, we discovered that a player could invite themselves into their own co-op session. Which is technically multiplayer, depending on how philosophical you feel about it. We fixed that, fixed quite a few other things, and probably generated several exciting new edge cases for future us to investigate. Now we need to see how co-op behaves outside the carefully controlled environment of our development machines. We’re especially interested in full video playthroughs. Written feedback tells us what went wrong, but recordings help us see where players hesitate, what feels unclear, what unexpectedly works, and which robot has decided to produce results with suspiciously low validation accuracy. You can sign up for the co-op playtest here:
Players who can record their playthrough will be invited first.
And one more very important thing
Our artist Anya has brought one of the game’s NPCs to life — a character who has already quietly become the project’s little mascot.
Please take a moment to admire this adorable creature and send some well-deserved compliments Anya’s way.
We’ve also uploaded the painting process to the SuperWEIRD YouTube channel, for anyone curious to see how it all came together.
while True: learn() taught us that even the smartest system behaves differently once real people start experimenting with it. That lesson is proving extremely useful again — now with co-op, robots, planetary reconstruction, and Goofy Goo added to the dataset.
Want even more automation?
- Sign up for the closed playtest of our new game
- Join our Discord
- Visit our website
- Play our free games
- Write a comment under your favorite gaming YouTuber’s video asking them to review the game
Want more automation?
- Sign up for the closed playtest of our new game
- Join our Discord
- Our website
- Our free games
- Write a comment under your favorite gaming YouTuber’s video asking them to review your game
You can get it with Steam Points at the 
Second, we’re deep into developing SuperWEIRD and actively playtesting it in the browser. And oh boy — you’ve sent us a lot of comments and feedback. We’re carefully digging through all of it now.
If you’d like the full story, check out our latest devlogs. We answer the most frequently asked questions there and explain how we work with feedback in general:
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Feedback has always been important to our studio. We’ve tried to stay close to players on Steam, Discord, and across social media. But with this project, we decided to go even further. It basically turned into full-on data-driven development — constant playtests, constant feedback loops, constant iteration.
It was our first time working like this, and honestly… what an experience! At one point, we stretched a single version to 9 weeks instead of the planned 2, just because we couldn’t hit the metrics we needed in playtests. Imagine that!
But thankfully, the era of large-scale quantitative playtests is behind us — and qualitative ones are kicking off in just a few days. On March 9th, we’re hosting a new closed playtest.
Want to join? Fill out the form here:
Quick question: can you tell what these things do just by looking at them? Let us know in the comments!
Want more machine learning for the Machine Learning God?
Then don’t forget — we’ve got this DLC right here waiting for you:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1026800/while_True_learn_Mega_Map_of_Machine_Learning/
That’s all the news for now. We hope to come back to you soon with more updates — so don’t disappear on us!
Hey friends!
The 256th day of the year is also known as Programmer's Day! That's today.
A huge kudos to all the knights of ones and zeroes, present-day, former, and wannabes alike! Without you, there would be no video games!
If coding at work is not enough for you (we get it) - did you know that there's a dedicated page on Steam's programming games? Check it out:
Happy coding, everyone!
Hey everyone!
We hope that you're having a great Summer Sale, and your Steam library is full of awesome new games (again).
As for us, we've got some exciting news of our own! For one, while True: learn() is expected to become a part of exposition in a hi-tech museum in Antwerpen (that's in Belgium).
Craftomation 101, in turn, is getting a lift-up in the UI/UX department: we've hired professional designer to make the game shine, and she's doing an awesome job:
The next update for that game is just around the corner!
As for Learning Factory, it now 
Last but not least: have you heard of our new games? One of them is called 
So many games, huh? Are we allowed to wear game publisher hats now? Just kidding, we're still keeping things simple, with all games being done by less than 20 people. So we're still your friendly neighborhood indie devs, who will do their best to bring you tons of fun!
We'll get back to it now. Until we meet again!
P.S. We're also doing tons of videos on our 
Hey there!
It's us, your friendly neighborhood experimental indie game devs. It's a fact that while True: learn() is a game that is done by now, We're still happy to see new feedback from you, the players, years after the game was released! It's an honor and joy, and we are endlessly grateful to all of you!
We have some thoughts about future updates for the game (no dates or promises yet, though), but for now, we are exploring some new ideas, which we'd like to share with you!
(Scroll down for team's cat pictures)
And yes, there's a demo for Craftomation 101, if you want to give it a spin:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724140/Craftomation_101_Programming__Craft/
Our lips are sealed for now, but stay tuned for more updates. To make sure you don't miss anything, do 
Once again, we're deep in the pre-production stage right now; more gameplay types and art styles will be tested before - and if - we decide to move on.
But we will pick a direction eventually, so which one do you like more, 1, 2, or 3? Drop your thoughts in the comments or talk to us directly on our 
Until we meet again!
Hey folks, we've released another update to make while True: learn() shinier!
Until we meet again!
Hey friends!
It appears that a few months have passed without any news from us, so we decided to write this post and share some updates.
First, while True: learn() has reached a formidable number of 6000 reviews on Steam! We're infinitely grateful to you, the players, for your love and attention: could we ever dream that a niche puzzle game like ours could get this big? Well, we certainly did dream about that, but we did not really expect it to happen, and yet here we are. Thank you!
Although the active part of development is now over, we are still supporting the game: the plan for the next update is to improve localizations to all the available languages. Stay tuned for the news!
Second, as you may remember, we launched the spiritual successor of while True: learn() named Craftomation 101. It uses similar node-based gameplay, but this time the programming part is very real: you'll get to write programs for a gang of goofy robots that will be helping you terraform a frozen planet:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724140/Craftomation_101/
If you like while True: learn(), we suggest you add Craftomation 101 to your wishlist as well, because, you know, a certain Steam Sale is coming in a couple of weeks, wink-wink, nudge-nudge! And in the meantime, you can check out the demo and decide whether this game is your cup of tea! Last but not least: the game was 
On a related matter, Craftomation 101 is made using Defold Engine, which we love very much, because it allows us to create a web-based versions of games in a very easy way - we'd like our games to be playable at schools, which are mostly equipped with Chromebooks these days.
And Defold engine runs on Lua programming language - which turned out to be a very peculiar experience for us! In fact, we wrote a whole article about writing a game on Lua, which made a splash on Reddit and The Hacker News. Check it out if you're into programming (lots of juicy details on coding with Lua inside):
Hey everyone!
We come with a game recommendation today. Our good friends at Ánimo Games Studio made this cute puzzle/automation adventure, in which you're reparing a star factory with some help from a bunch of robots! It's called Star Stuff, and it's out today:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1955110?utm_source=impress&utm_medium=presskit
Here, check out the trailer, while you're at it, too:
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Buy yourself a copy or at least add it to wishlist!
Hey friends!
while True: learn() is a game about programming, but honestly, there's no actual programming in it.
Most of our players were quite ok with it, but we keep receiving feedback from people who would like to go deeper!
Enter Craftomation 101: in this game you get to use visual programming to instruct a gang of goofy robots to help you terraform a frozen planet:
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Craftomation 101 is now available in Early Access, with a handsome release discount to help you make a decision:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724140/Craftomation_101_Programming__Craft/
There's also a free demo that allows you to check out the base mechanics!
In any case, please share your impressions about the game in the comments, or come by our 
Hey everyone, here's a nice little update for y'all!
Hey everyone, here's a little early Holiday present: an unexpected update!
Hey there, machine learning enthusiasts, puzzle master and cat caterers!
Since we released while True: learn() back in 2019, machine learning made a huge leap forward. So it only made sense to make the game accessible for more people around the world by adding machine learning translations for certain languages. Because it's the future!
You know how it happens: first, you want to fix a thing or two in an old game. Next, you find yourself adding a bunch of features that you always wanted to add, because reasons. That's exactly what happened two us: 2 major updates in a row within a month, is that too much? Dr. Katz says 'NO!'
So, here goes:
Other changes this update brings you include:
We don't update the game as often these days, but when we do we're trying to make sure it's a significant one! This version brings you:
Hey there! We've got great news!
Hey everyone,
Hope you're doing fine! There's been a lot going on around while True: learn() recently, so we've decided that it calls for an update. It might not seem much content-wise, but it brings important technical changes!
And now for something completely different! This week we've decided to showcase our lovely while True: learn() a little bit!
We know it's been almost 3 years since release. But this only makes us more eager to show it to you: we haven't been live streaming this game, like, at all, and it's totally worth streaming, and it's better late than never! In any case:
Hey everyone!
We've been receiving many questions from our most progressive Mac users on whether while True: learn() supports those top notch Silicon processors?
Well, now we've made all necessary preparations, and the answer is: yes, definitely yes, while True: learn() runs fine on any Mac computer with Silicon on board!
It concerns both Steam version and the one you can get from Apple AppStore.
One more reason to go and solve some machine learning-related puzzles! Please enjoy :)
Oh hi there!
It's that frightfully pleasant time of the year again, when we dress up, give out candy and inflict massacre upon pumpkins (sorry, pumpkins!).
Luckily, no pumpkins are harmed during Halloween in our games, because it's purely virtual. As you can see, our game page is already chock full of holiday spirit, and the game decorations will follow next week.
However, you want some Halloween mood, like, right now, we advise you to get to our next game, Learning Factory, which already has its spooky event happening:
If you have your own story to share, you're very welcome to join us on our