Deep in mars

by docsystem

co-authored: @deedose, @spatia

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.73

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.51

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Welcome to your new base!

Your goal is to survive on Mars.

You can use UP and DOWN arrows to go deeper underground.

You can open the menu at right to buy new habitations / storage rooms / factories.

Habitations give more place for people.

Storage rooms give more place for resources.

Factories allow people to work and make money.

You can call spaceships to get 5 ressources in quantity of your choice, between Workers and Gears. (Each call will cost you $500), click on it to take the ressources you just imported.

Asteroids spawn every ~50 seconds.

Habitations and Storage rooms give you 50 points.

Factories give you 100 points.

The goal is to build a base as big as possible. The bigger your base, the more points you will get.

The game ends when all your base is destroyed.

WARNING: Asteroids explodes when they touch the ground!

The deeper you build, the higher the cost, but the safer you are from asteorids!

Good luck and have fun!

29/04, 15h00

Changelog : Bug fixing

- The explosion when the asteorids touch the ground scale up to the asteorid's size

- The price of the starship lowers when we lower the number of ressources we import

- Error texts now show up the correct message

Genres: strategy

Tools: Unity

Comments49

Chyrion26 Apr 2021, 17:38

Fun idea! Love the artstyle and the core gameplay, and it definitely creates a scenario for constant improvement and competition. However, I noticed issues with the UI: the build costs just show "1" while occasionally updating to a random value, then back to "1". This unfortunately makes progressing a bit difficult :( Regardless, I love the concept, definitely something I'd love to see taken further!

Spatia26 Apr 2021, 17:52

@chyrion The "issue" of the 1 cost is not an issue! Actually the deeper you build, the higher the cost, to make the gameplay more complicated :)

Dannan226 Apr 2021, 20:42

Pretty addictive game! loved it!

JedeMac26 Apr 2021, 20:50

Love the concept!

It looks nice, it feels nice.
This is the kind of game where I would love to see more of it.

Steven C26 Apr 2021, 20:53

Cool concept and well made!
A reset button would be nice, as it took a little time for me to realise how it all worked, and I had screwed myself over by that point. :sweat_smile:
So I had to refresh the page.

How do the asteroids hit stuff that is far below exactly? It costs more to build lower, but asteroids still hit it somehow

Jungle26 Apr 2021, 20:57

Nice game! I wish a missile battery to avoid this meteors.

Kro26 Apr 2021, 21:22

Asteroid destroyed everyone in a first minute of the game :D
Cool game, but lack of concent. I would play full version of this.

Spatia26 Apr 2021, 23:14

@steven-c To make it simple, the more the game progresses, the bigger the meteorites are and the deeper they destroy the base

Massillon Magic27 Apr 2021, 08:27

Good game I had a lot of fun playing it! The asteroids make it only harder and I think it's fair! GG guys!

NeilM527 Apr 2021, 09:15

Good game, good graphics, wish it had more rooms because having only three different rooms to build is a bit too low.

The game overall is good and have a great potential to be expended

johnbanane27 Apr 2021, 11:46

cool il faudrait un bouclier ou qqc pour contrer les asteroides sinon c nickel

Deedose27 Apr 2021, 11:56

@johnbanane Le but du jeu est de construire une grosse base sous terre pour se protéger des météorites , si on pouvait juste construire un bouclier , on pourrait juste construire a la surface , et ce n'était pas l'objectif du jeu .

Gamer12327 Apr 2021, 12:03

I find this game very similar to Factorio (https://www.factorio.com/) but I'm not here to talk about that. I don't understand the objective of the game and the relation with the theme, moreover we are blocked when the number of engrennage is at 0, the music turns in loop, I am really disappointed. But don't subscribe it's your first game jam :sob:

Tris25027 Apr 2021, 12:30

The game is very fun and entertaining, the music is excellent, as are the graphics, well done.

Le jeu est très fun et divertissant, la musique est excellente, tout comme les graphiques, bravo.

Deedose27 Apr 2021, 12:34

@gamer123 ... ... ...

jujuformatic27 Apr 2021, 12:49

Super jeu, j'avoue qu'à l'origine le jeu ne me paraissait pas forcément génial mais au final, il est vrmt très bien mais un peu répétitif

#MagicMakers ;)

Gamer12327 Apr 2021, 13:33

@deedose, you shouldn't speak like that, I just want to explain myself I didn't put a note but I think there is room for improvement. Notament the meteorite which crosses the ground, explain the goal, how to play .

Deedose27 Apr 2021, 13:36

@gamer123 Sorry i took your comment a bit too seriously ...

kypello27 Apr 2021, 16:39

I really like this. Great job on the tutorial at the start explaining everything. The only thing I was really confused about was the + and - buttons under the starship button (do they change how much stuff comes on the ship? Why would I lower it?) Otherwise it's a cool base-building game. I really like how building stuff deeper costs more money but protects you more from meteors, it fits with the theme well. I did wish there was an end goal to work towards, because I found it too easy to keep building stuff and didn't feel like I was in much danger from the meteors. Overall a nice game!

Edit: I see you explained the thing I was confused about in the description!

Deedose27 Apr 2021, 17:50

@kypello The + and - serve to choose how much of each ressources you want to import . For example if you want to import a lot of workers and no gears , you can lower the gears amount to 0 with the - , and increase the workers amount with the + . Sorry if it wasn't clear .

Eugenik27 Apr 2021, 19:22

I have now also rated your game

ancooper27 Apr 2021, 19:27

@deedose starship in my game too :slight_smile:

Fractal Flower Girl28 Apr 2021, 19:11

How do you put workers in the factory, and out of their homes?

Deedose28 Apr 2021, 20:31

@fractal-flower-girl They only need to be in a module for them to be considered as workers , and work in the factories . It would have been cool to implement that , but we were running out of time , and focusing on the core mechanics .

My Sweet Whomp28 Apr 2021, 20:52

Cool game! Making balanced management games in a small amount of time is tough tho. Kudos.

Edit from the future:
We played your game on stream, here's a link to the VOD if you want to have a look :smile:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1004121404?t=00h35m07s

Vimlark29 Apr 2021, 20:55

Neat idea. Took me a few minutes to figure out what I needed but when I did it was fun.

Ben Yazi29 Apr 2021, 21:11

Nice game. I felt myself like a Elon Musk))

Link27030 Apr 2021, 06:51

That was pretty cool. Nice idea. I'd like to see it expanded upon. I believe someone else mentioned doing some form of asteroid defense or something. Nice job!

Tanner Shelton30 Apr 2021, 06:53

Good job on the game. Lots of fun! I liked it after I started figuring out a good tactic to go down further. I think I would change possibly allowing for maybe an area that shows up red of what will be destroyed before an asteroid comes down, so you know what to prepare for. It was fun though.

kuviman30 Apr 2021, 11:06

Gets a bit too repetitive pretty soon, but a cool game anyway!

Nice Gear Games30 Apr 2021, 11:16

This was a cool idea for the theme! I like the pixel art and the click-to-place felt really satisfying, and building an array of nodes was cool. I also like the idea of having to race against the asteroids, building deep enough to avoid them while still managing your resources. I only wish that the asteroids would leave craters, so to say, so that I can see at what depth the next asteroid will hit. (For example, if an asteroid hit on the right side, there'd be a huge crater that strips away the top level or two of dirt. That way I'd know that if another asteroid hits on that side, probably the next couple of layers would also be destroyed.) Love the idea and feels like a promising project to build on!

vsi-30 Apr 2021, 12:01

liked the art, really nice, gj!

rhoff9530 Apr 2021, 12:11

Cool game! Music is excellent. I like the concept of digging deeper, but slowly and limited by resource. It is a good idea to build tension.

LDJam user 25196730 Apr 2021, 12:30

Nice little strategy game! Can be sort of relaxing to play after a while. The asteroid attacks are a little harsh though.

Hoichael30 Apr 2021, 12:46

Great work. Not my type of game but the presentation kept me interested for quite a bit, I especially like the animated interior of the factory room. Great audio and UI design too, the latter is something people tend to underrate when it comes to presenting a coherent experience but you absolutely nailed it!

ZeroKun30 Apr 2021, 13:21

I think that you should be able to store at least 1 gear without any storage room... 'cause if you lose all your storage rooms than you're stuck.. i think that beeing able to slowly regain all the buildings starting from 1 gear would be nice.. that aside, really nice game

P.S. it loked like those idle mobile games, but actually well made :)

koalaura30 Apr 2021, 14:55

Nice game! Took me a while to figure out what the factory and storage did (but that's probably my bad for reading too fast haha), but when I did it was enjoyable. I wish I had some indication of how far the next asteroid would go. Overall, very nice game, good job!

AR Borno1 May 2021, 13:33

This is actually a good game. Great Job

azagaya1 May 2021, 15:48

Nice resource management game! I hate asteroid btw (its a joke, I know asteroids are important part of the game)

Deedose1 May 2021, 16:19

@azagaya Without asteorids , there is no point in going deeper , and the theme isn't respected . That's why asteorids are in the game (well , I guess this comment is useless now that azagaya modified his message) .

azagaya1 May 2021, 16:23

@deedose i know, i understood the game! I was just trying to make a joke. Sorry if it was misinterpreted. The game is really cool.

dhim1 May 2021, 18:33

Beautiful game and UI.

I was overthinking it : thinking I had to link building or have a correct ratio of worker / storage room / barracks. But in the end having a lot of factories is the only growth factor right ?

Maybe implementing some sort of rules : Factory must touch at least one storage and one barracks, but no factory. Barack must touch at most X and Y. etc. etc. Would make the base a bit more interesting/challenging to build / rebuild when some units are destroyed.

Deedose1 May 2021, 19:12

@dhim Money = Workers x Factories x 4 , so the most efficient way to make money is to have one factory and a bunch of workers . We plan to continue working on the game , and we will probably complexify the game .

Caveman542 May 2021, 14:50

Nice mechanic! I really enjoyed the simple design and it played very well.

Ausstein3 May 2021, 20:40

Hi,

Here is my Playthrough of your game as you requested.

Enjoy!

Bajtix3 May 2021, 23:41

This was a fairly relaxing game to play, the music was very chill and nice. The graphics look good, I like the artstyle. I just think the game lacks some kind of visual indicator of how deep the asteroids will go.

Jimbly4 May 2021, 14:31

My first game "ended" when I ran out of people, despite plenty of deep-underground habitation for them, and only had 450 money left so couldn't ship in new ones :( - I noticed later, looking at your change notes, that I could probably have just shipped in 2 people for cheaper, but didn't realize that at the time. My second base started with building my own safe little home deep under ground, and did much better! Eventually had 10s of thousands of dollars and got bored before the asteroids destroyed my base ^_^. I liked the atmosphere and relatively chill gameplay, despite the impending doom . It would have been nice the residents moved to empty rooms if their homes were destroyed, would have prevented the unexpected termination of my first game.

Jonas Michael4 May 2021, 15:26

Very solid LD entry! I liked the pixel art and the idea behind the gameplay! As I mentioned on stream, I would have liked for a way of defending from meteors, maybe some more interactions with the rooms. Still, very good job!

blobo8 May 2021, 17:17

I really enjoyed setting up my own base. In my first run I wasn't entirely sure what to do and an asteroid blew up the only humans alive, which I found rather hilarious. I like the music, it made the game feel nice and calm, despite the asteroid threat. Great work!