Exo Keeper
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Exoplanetary Ecosystem Care Game
After a long interstellar voyage, you arrive at the planet Kepler-7311b. The planet is an empty slate, waiting for you to take a hand in terraformation! The first step will be to introduce microbes.
But you have to be careful to "Keep it alive!" Not all microbes will survive - there is the harsh cold, lack of oxygen, and the hostile biotopes from lava lakes to sulfur plains.
Can you turn this alien hellscape into a lush paradise?
Once the game starts, you can select any of the species at the bottom. View their info with the 'Info button'. Choose one, and click somewhere in the map - now click 'Introduce species' and if the conditions are right, that species will start growing. The game has some hints that will pop up while you are playing.
The microbes growing on the surface will slowly darken the icy landscape and decrese the 'albedo', the reflectiveness. This leads to a warming of the planet. Your goal is to reach a lush temperature of 298 K (i.e. 25 C)
CREDITS:
Code: @Amarillion
Design: @Ehe
Music: @donall
Art: @kongroo
Music and art are all created originally during the competition. The game is web-based, based on JavaScript and Phaser 3. Source code is available on github.
KNOWN ISSUES:
1. We noticed that sometimes when the game is not completely loaded, some buttons are unresponsive. When this happens, it seems to help to give the game some extra time to download the required files.
2. There are layout problems on small screens (e.g. a laptop) with display scaling enabled. You can see annoying scroll bars appear on the main window, and the buttons in the species info dialog may be occluded. If this happens, you can work around this issue by changing the scaling in the browser (with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+minus)
If you get stuck, check out the explainer video (full disclosure, this was made AFTER the jam): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PgdhizHl0
After a long interstellar voyage, you arrive at the planet Kepler-7311b. The planet is an empty slate, waiting for you to take a hand in terraformation! The first step will be to introduce microbes.
But you have to be careful to "Keep it alive!" Not all microbes will survive - there is the harsh cold, lack of oxygen, and the hostile biotopes from lava lakes to sulfur plains.
Can you turn this alien hellscape into a lush paradise?
Once the game starts, you can select any of the species at the bottom. View their info with the 'Info button'. Choose one, and click somewhere in the map - now click 'Introduce species' and if the conditions are right, that species will start growing. The game has some hints that will pop up while you are playing.
The microbes growing on the surface will slowly darken the icy landscape and decrese the 'albedo', the reflectiveness. This leads to a warming of the planet. Your goal is to reach a lush temperature of 298 K (i.e. 25 C)
CREDITS:
Code: @Amarillion
Design: @Ehe
Music: @donall
Art: @kongroo
Music and art are all created originally during the competition. The game is web-based, based on JavaScript and Phaser 3. Source code is available on github.
KNOWN ISSUES:
1. We noticed that sometimes when the game is not completely loaded, some buttons are unresponsive. When this happens, it seems to help to give the game some extra time to download the required files.
2. There are layout problems on small screens (e.g. a laptop) with display scaling enabled. You can see annoying scroll bars appear on the main window, and the buttons in the species info dialog may be occluded. If this happens, you can work around this issue by changing the scaling in the browser (with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+minus)
If you get stuck, check out the explainer video (full disclosure, this was made AFTER the jam): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PgdhizHl0