Pale White Dot
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Pale White Dot is an incremental game set in the solar system. You start as Earth's moon, A Small World, known as Luna. You can accumulate resources and build an army to take over the solar system! Try keeping it open while you play other games, and check in once in a while.
You get some resources every second for each planet / moon you control. On the left, you have the interactions bar. You can build things. Hover over each item to see what resources it takes. If you click the button to the top left of the graphic, just below the label, you will go up one level, to Earth. And again, to the Solar System. To go to a planet, click it. To go to a planet's moon, click the name of the moon in the list on the right(-ish).
If you want to attack a planet possessed by someone else, you have to first build a fleet. First, you must build ships on a planet of your choice (in the beginning, Luna). Then, click on them in the list of items. They'll be added to your fleet. Now you can go to a planet of your choice and
*Ok, so I didn't quite get to polish it as much as I wanted, but it's playable. Please forgive the lack of balance / many bugs / some missing art.*
* Source: https://github.com/CosineGaming/pale-white-dot
* Development timelapse: https://youtu.be/pSrm77Qc3Wo
* Post-compo version: https://cosinegaming.com/static/pwd-post/index.html
The post-compo version fixes a major bug where attacking can never end. It also adds the AI attacking, interface improvements suggested in the comments, and significant balance improvements.
Instructions:
It should be pretty self-explanatory *for the most part*, but it's a little complicated, and I didn't have time to make a tutorial. So if you want to read it:You get some resources every second for each planet / moon you control. On the left, you have the interactions bar. You can build things. Hover over each item to see what resources it takes. If you click the button to the top left of the graphic, just below the label, you will go up one level, to Earth. And again, to the Solar System. To go to a planet, click it. To go to a planet's moon, click the name of the moon in the list on the right(-ish).
If you want to attack a planet possessed by someone else, you have to first build a fleet. First, you must build ships on a planet of your choice (in the beginning, Luna). Then, click on them in the list of items. They'll be added to your fleet. Now you can go to a planet of your choice and
*Ok, so I didn't quite get to polish it as much as I wanted, but it's playable. Please forgive the lack of balance / many bugs / some missing art.*
Links
* WEB: https://cosinegaming.com/static/pale-white-dot/index.html* Source: https://github.com/CosineGaming/pale-white-dot
* Development timelapse: https://youtu.be/pSrm77Qc3Wo
* Post-compo version: https://cosinegaming.com/static/pwd-post/index.html
The post-compo version fixes a major bug where attacking can never end. It also adds the AI attacking, interface improvements suggested in the comments, and significant balance improvements.