You are the captain of a futuristic interstellar ark that quite honestly, left space-dock months too early.
Will you patch up your ship and survive the long journey between worlds to finish the space gate you are tasked to build, or will your ship succumb to the perils of interstellar space?
Hope you enjoy my FTL and Oregon Trail hybrid! I myself enjoyed this LD a lot, hope to check out your entries soon!
MAIN TIP: USE THE BUTTONS IN THE BOTTOM TO EXPAND YOUR SHIP!
HINTS: - You will need to produce fuel and food! Expand your ship to survive! - Click 'engage' to warp to the next point. Crewmembers build sections, age and eat during each step! Warning: Your ship will not stop until a warp point has been reached, unless you are out of fuel. - Placed ship sections do not function until constructed by the crew. - Finished sections randomly generate food, fuel and other pickups. - Bigger crew means faster building! Bunks increase your chances of births! Watch your food though! - Plan ahead, if the distance between warp points on the route is long, your ship will not stop for a while. You can only build and scan at warp points, but your crew will build and your ark will produce and consume resources each step of the way! - Don't place too many sections at once, your crew might build the things you don't need first. - Crewmembers age. Additional drives will cause long warp paths to take less time! Did you know Biogel can revitalize the elderly? - Brainslugs have benefits! - Don't give up when you run out of fuel, scan around for a bit, you might get lucky!
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Andrew Shouldice25 Aug 2014, 02:52
It took me a little while to figure this one out, but I'm glad I took the time. (After giving up, I saw your screenshot of the giant ship and I loaded it back up to try again.) This is neat! I could see it turning into a larger project. Nice work.
Nice entry! Was a bit hard to understand exactly what was going on at first, but then I got the hang of it. Could have been fun to see a graphic representation of each crewmember walking around the ship.
2755 points & everyone's either dead or brainslug'd. Interesting little spin on Oregon Trail. Thank god I produced more crew :p Was down to like 1 non-slugged guy at the halfway point.
Added some hints to description, to get people started!
@DragonXVI Brainslugs are my favorite aspect of the game. :D @reidrac Thanks! Ran out of time for sounds, so had a 10 minute yell things into the mic session. ;)
Took me a while to figure out how to play it, but once I did I realised that this game is great. The only thing is that the "Scan" button seems to do far more harm than good, and as such I see no incentive to use it.
Wow this is a really good job. As you said a well good ftl and oregon trail mix. Awesome artwork, it's running fine... feels very polished too. Will play it for a while.
When I started to understand it, I loved it! It seems like a very complex game, but the controls are very simple. It involves strategy, a story and creative thinking, and you combined these things really well. And the sounds made me smile.
Wow, a very good implementation of the FTL type thingy, really liked it although it is quite difficult to get the right mixture for the ship. Fun to play but a bit frustrating after a while, but maybe thats just me not being able ;)
So far I've caught a Firefly reference and a Galaxy Quest reference. I'm sure there are more :) Nicely done! Though it feels like my crew has a strong propensity for dying. Very fun nonetheless.
This was very fun. I played a few times... the first time I didn't read the instructions so I just "built" a giant, unfinished ark and everybody died.
My second attempt was kept tense by the constant threat of brain-slugs and 6 accidental plasma-conduit deaths in a row (someone should put a sign on those things!) but I eventually made it. I am curious about the effects & benefits of brain slugs... maybe a faster build rate?
At the end I had so many crewmembers that I think I couldn't see the entire list. I thought I'd cured everyone but the next turn they all had brain slugs. (I guess they have benefits though! So maybe it is for the best :D)
You managed to pull off something quite big and beautiful, good job! It was hard to understand what I was supposed to be doing, as my crew kept dying of slugs, lack of food or age.
Awesome crossover! What bothered me was the lack of a soundtrack (can't blame ya. but it would make so much moody). Overall, you did a great job. I want to play this on mobile. Please fix this. :D
This is a lot of fun! Tip of my hat on an interesting game with dynamic ship building. Learning curve is a little sharp and a little unforgiving, but it makes it enjoyable... kinda like FTL - Faster Than Light.
My score: 3095. Out of my surviving crew of 4, 2 had brainslugs. :P The game is really good, but it needs patience at the beginning - I didn't know what is it I'm supposed to do with the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It's only when I realized how building ship works I was able to finish the game. Nevertheless, this is a great entry.
On my first try I lost because my crew of four was taken over by brainslugs. In the following games I never let any crew with a brainslug back on board.
Then I read the comments and finished my last game with 13 brainslugs on board. Cool game :)
I really like the parallax stars during the jump and overall pixelated art feel.
The overall mechanics are interesting even though I don't get it. I actually wish there was a limit to what you can build because it gets a little tedious to add stuff and I can't tell if the ramscoops even add fuel (the reason I usually die). I seemed to get a little further each time but I'm probably missing something. Ah as reading now "placed ship sections do not function until constructed by crew". I think that's it.
Hi there. Like the pixel graphics and the sounds. Reminds me of spacecraft building board games. Played with it a bit, and got captain smeared on walls, but ran out of things to do. Good job so far!
"Don't give up when you run out of fuel, scan around for a bit, you might get lucky!"
yeah right. The button only brings death... I managed to get to the end without clicking it. I had a very small ship, though. It feels like I was being lucky, not that I made the good decisions...
Great entry, a little difficult perhaps but still a really cool idea. I'm really impressed you got something like this working over a weekend. I played it for quite a while
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Did you do some sound effects with your mouth? :D
@DragonXVI Brainslugs are my favorite aspect of the game. :D
@reidrac Thanks! Ran out of time for sounds, so had a 10 minute yell things into the mic session. ;)
Fun to play but a bit frustrating after a while, but maybe thats just me not being able ;)
My second attempt was kept tense by the constant threat of brain-slugs and 6 accidental plasma-conduit deaths in a row (someone should put a sign on those things!) but I eventually made it.
I am curious about the effects & benefits of brain slugs... maybe a faster build rate?
At the end I had so many crewmembers that I think I couldn't see the entire list. I thought I'd cured everyone but the next turn they all had brain slugs. (I guess they have benefits though! So maybe it is for the best :D)
What bothered me was the lack of a soundtrack (can't blame ya. but it would make so much moody). Overall, you did a great job.
I want to play this on mobile. Please fix this. :D
Then I read the comments and finished my last game with 13 brainslugs on board. Cool game :)
The overall mechanics are interesting even though I don't get it. I actually wish there was a limit to what you can build because it gets a little tedious to add stuff and I can't tell if the ramscoops even add fuel (the reason I usually die). I seemed to get a little further each time but I'm probably missing something. Ah as reading now "placed ship sections do not function until constructed by crew". I think that's it.
Extremely polished overall.
yeah right. The button only brings death... I managed to get to the end without clicking it. I had a very small ship, though. It feels like I was being lucky, not that I made the good decisions...
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Hard, but that's the challenge. :)