Power Outage

by xyrion

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.67

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Power Outage is a real time strategy game made with Pico-8 that is played with mouse.

Story:

You are an artificial intelligence which is in command of a factory complex.
And you have a problem. The generator blew up, and without it you only have limited power left.

So you need to gather fission batteries with the help of robots. But beware you have lost connection to the robots outside. They are now hostile.

Controls:

* pan screen with cursor keys or move the mouse to the sides of the screen
*you could also hold < x > and hold < leftclick > to drag the camera with the mouse, but that doesn't really work that well*

* build units with the buttons on the left side

* select units by pressing the select button or holding down *< z >* and then click or box select units with *< leftclick >*

* move units with *< leftclick >*

* home button will teleport camera back to base

* music button will mute or unmute music*(i am very sorry for this bad music but i did not have the time and skill to make something better)*

Tags: #mouse only, #real time strategy, #robots

Genres: strategy

Tools: PICO-8

Comments6

goncalomb31 Jul 2017, 23:28

I didn't knew about this Pico-8 "virtual console", thanks for introducing it to me. I like these minimalist games. Having WASD also move the screen would be good because all the keys would be near each other. Fun game overall, having the bots deliver the batteries back home is a good little feature.

automatonvx31 Jul 2017, 23:55

Well done on trying to make an RTS for LD, I think it turned out pretty well, it looks good, the robots are cute and after a little while I could recognise everything enough to figure out what was going on. Obviously the tiny pico 8 screen makes controlling units pretty tricky as you have to do so much scrolling. Played for a while but the only thing was it was a bit lacking in challenge or win condition that i could see, its a pretty massive map to try and pick up all the batteries, so I didn't get as far as collecting them all to see what would happening. I wouldn't feel too bad about the music its not that bad, having anything is still better than nothing.

caranha1 Aug 2017, 02:40

Nice idea and nice graphics, but the mouse controls are a bit too wonky, so I couldn't play the game to its fullest. I think PICO8 doesn't quite work with the mouse :-)

Rombus1 Aug 2017, 23:41

I like how it looks but I can't make the mouse work D:

FelixMcFelix2 Aug 2017, 01:16

Never thought I'd see an RTS on the PICO, I didn't know you could use mouse input like that!
Steamrolling the local machines with my robot army was oddly satisfying, though I think it'd have been nice if I had to defend the base from time to time.
The graphics in-game were pretty good, the title screen was well done too!

(The music was alright, don't worry about it!)

Good work, keep it up!

keckles9 Aug 2017, 16:02

you stole my games name...

on another note the game looked decent but i think it needs some more polish