Interns From Mars!
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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STORY: (I'd put this in the game proper but I wanted to minimize text there)
You are an intrepid young student majoring in xenobiology at the Martian Institute of Technology. Your job search has been going quite well- you've just been hired as a summer intern by the largest biomedical corporation in the Greater Olympus Mons area! It's a very exciting opportunity. Of course, since you're just an intern, you end up having to do most of the dirty work. Today, you're tasked with heading out to a sleepy Terran suburb and collecting some live humans for testing. You'd like to do more of the actual biomedical research, but hey, it's a foot in the door, right? Maybe if you impress them, they'll take you on as a full-time employee, and you'll get do to some real probing. For now, one can only dream.
FEATURE WISHLIST: (stuff I'd do if I had more time - I might put these in a post-compo version)
- music/sound volume buttons
- illustrated instructions
- alter the AI so humans cannot stay underneath buildings too long
- keep track of the player's high score (per session; not any fancy server stuff)
- end the round early if the player has abducted all humans on the stage
- GOATS! (i.e. stuff that penalizes you if you abduct them instead of humans)
- buildings with different heights
- visual effect for the humans being "beamed up" by the mothership
- pendulum physics for the chain of humans connected to the ship
- not allowing humans to "walk in the air" when dropped
- special graphics for when humans are being abducted (that depict them hanging on or something)
- more art (e.g. "cover" art, background stuff like hills and clouds, custom preloader)
- non-default fonts/button graphics
- more music
- other things to hit (e.g. trees, birds)
- non-flat ground
Feel free to provide any constructive criticism or suggest anything else you'd like to see in a post-compo version!
You are an intrepid young student majoring in xenobiology at the Martian Institute of Technology. Your job search has been going quite well- you've just been hired as a summer intern by the largest biomedical corporation in the Greater Olympus Mons area! It's a very exciting opportunity. Of course, since you're just an intern, you end up having to do most of the dirty work. Today, you're tasked with heading out to a sleepy Terran suburb and collecting some live humans for testing. You'd like to do more of the actual biomedical research, but hey, it's a foot in the door, right? Maybe if you impress them, they'll take you on as a full-time employee, and you'll get do to some real probing. For now, one can only dream.
FEATURE WISHLIST: (stuff I'd do if I had more time - I might put these in a post-compo version)
- music/sound volume buttons
- illustrated instructions
- alter the AI so humans cannot stay underneath buildings too long
- keep track of the player's high score (per session; not any fancy server stuff)
- end the round early if the player has abducted all humans on the stage
- GOATS! (i.e. stuff that penalizes you if you abduct them instead of humans)
- buildings with different heights
- visual effect for the humans being "beamed up" by the mothership
- pendulum physics for the chain of humans connected to the ship
- not allowing humans to "walk in the air" when dropped
- special graphics for when humans are being abducted (that depict them hanging on or something)
- more art (e.g. "cover" art, background stuff like hills and clouds, custom preloader)
- non-default fonts/button graphics
- more music
- other things to hit (e.g. trees, birds)
- non-flat ground
Feel free to provide any constructive criticism or suggest anything else you'd like to see in a post-compo version!