Planetary Construction

The Story

_Space is really, unimaginably big, and Earth is surprisingly tiny._

Unfortunately, __all__ the habitable planets in the galaxy have a massive over-population problem too!

More space is on the way, thanks to the mind-boggling intellect of the people at __Planetary Construction__ (a subsidiary of Magrathea Corporation). If only they didn't have such a big order backlog!

Help them out with a bit of terraforming. Can you balance all the variables to find the recipe to support life?

Make enough space for all the citizens of the galaxy before the world population reaches 11 billion.

Game Play

Play by adjusting the planetary properties to match the requirements. If a planet is too small, or lacking resources, you can replenish them by smashing asteroids or other planets into the planet. Some changes take a long time - geological timescales. You can place a planet in an accelerated timewarp to speed things up.

The Jam game has only one gameplay mode - three quick planet designs in five minutes of gameplay. The post-Jam game will have more challenging objectives as an alternative game mode.

Procedural Generation

Except for the NASA Blue Marble imagery, everything is procedurally generated (even the music). Create a water world, an ice planet, or anything in between. I worked completely alone, and I really pushed myself with the code.

Performance Update

My post-Jam efforts focused on rendering performance. A few bugfixes aside, it's exactly the same game, but better. The texture rendering is done with a custom shader. The texture backend is done with a custom render texture (not a CustomRenderTexture, because that doesn't work properly with WebGL - I made my own). Result? Beautifully smooth animation.

Performance Update Downloads

* HTML5 (web) http://www.goodmorningfrom.com/ld42v2/index.html
* Windows http://www.goodmorningfrom.com/ld42v2/planetary_construction_win.zip
* Mac http://www.goodmorningfrom.com/ld42v2/planetary_construction_mac.zip
* Linux http://www.goodmorningfrom.com/ld42v2/planetary_construction_linux.zip

Original Jam Version