The Maker Way

Arizona, 2039. The government locked the desert down to store confiscated tech data and human knowledge. Your job is to take it back.

The Maker Way is a building game first. You design machines from mechanical parts, wheels, engines, weapons, and electronics. Then you use resources to 3D-print them and drive them, or operate them remotely. In this desert you’ll find out quickly which designs work and which don’t.

The desert is an open map with roads, points of interest, resources to mine, new parts to find, and vicious enemies. The terrain matters. Road and sand have different traction, and each wheel handles both differently, so what you build decides where you can go. Oh… and you can use jets, propellers, and helium balloons to build flying machines instead.

Your goal is to bring back confiscated data from government facilities. The data is stored on hackable terminals, data drives, and data cores you crane out of secure cradles. Robots, drones, checkpoints, and turrets guard them so you’ll have to find a way to get in.

To store the data, you will build bases with servers that need cooling, because a hot server can’t store anything. Bases also provide resource storage, and can be used to charge and refuel your machines. As you collect more data you will increase your Maker Score to unlock more part specifications and researchable modules.

Fight for liberty. Fight for progress.