Go Man's Sky

by rawktron

A dad-joke pun taken too far, "Go Man's Sky" is a retro BBS-Door style ANSi art space exploration game set in a procedural universe written in Go. Search for the ancient artifact across dozens of procedurally generated planets. Collect fuel to keep your ship running as you jump from sector to sector in search of the ancient artifact.

Apologies to Hello Games, any similarity to proper games of the same genre is done purely in good humour.

This game is a bare-bones prototype primarily as a learning exercise, however if there's interest I may continue to develop and expand on this as time goes on. There are bugs, it's desperately unfinished, but still a bit of fun.
Enjoy!

Download here: https://rawktron.itch.io/go-mans-sky

Known Issues:
- Palette is messed up on Windows, many colours are mismatched - investigating now.
- Audio had to be disabled at the last minute due to DLL dependencies! Sorry, will try to get it re-enabled ASAP.

Tags: #ansi, #ascii, #exploration, #procedural generation, #space

Genres: adventure

Comments9

GhostAndShell25 Apr 2017, 10:59

is it also on indiexpo?

rawktronauthor25 Apr 2017, 11:33

unfortunately not, I can try to post it there though.

mitus25 Apr 2017, 12:10

I play on Window and my spaceShip is stuck on space and can't come back if i dash a little to far to the space. Also im quite confuse with control system.

mitus25 Apr 2017, 12:10

I play on Window and my spaceShip is stuck on space and can't come back if i dash a little to far to the space. Also im quite confuse with control system.

rawktronauthor25 Apr 2017, 12:29

Hey, sorry! There's no bounds so if you go too far you can become lost in space. In the ship, press a direction to START thrusting, press that same direction again to stop. Hope that helps!

RobotSoulsGames1 May 2017, 21:14

Honestly, I'm not finding this game very fun. There's no explanation of controls, and no noticeable game progression. I understand this is a parody, but it doesn't feel like much of a game . . .

WhatsAGaym4 May 2017, 11:39

I really like the visuals of this one. Also, I think the game could be a lot of fun if there were more things to do. I really hope you continue working on this post compo.

One thing I noticed: The "tutorial" screen on windows isn't readable (see picture)

blaster3918 May 2017, 19:16

I want to play this (my game also is a No Mans Sky pun), but I am also having the same bug as @whatsagaym a readme with controls would be appreciated. I'll check back on this later :D

rawktronauthor17 May 2017, 01:35

Hey folks! So I totally feel your pain with the palette issues on Windows. I've been chipping away at it but haven't had a decent chunk of time to dedicate to fixing this. I have fixed the audio issues, but the palette has been more involved than I expected. I'm hoping to have it addressed soon though, and since there has actually been interest in this, am considering porting it to a different engine that will be more cross-platform friendly and expanding the gameplay. Thanks for playing!

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