Mars Colony Alpha

by falzock
co-authored: @max-s, @rabenherz
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.57
You were hired as a Chief Life-Support Manager (CLSM) to help the Mars Colony Alpha Cooperation.
Unfortunately you weren't a hundred percent honest in your resumee and now you are sitting in front of a lot of buttons, sliders and blinking lights and have no idea what they are doing.
Good luck - the rocket with the first inhabitants is arriving soon!

Controls:
- Mouse


Have fun playing!

Comments18

d3w
d3w4 Oct 2021, 21:00
I love the concept and aesthetic!
LDJam user 202408
LDJam user 2024085 Oct 2021, 19:12
really smart idea, I love the whole design of it, the idea of a console displaying info is much better in my opinion than lot of UI elements everywhere for different infos. good job!
Nebrazif
Nebrazif5 Oct 2021, 19:16
Good entry, good graphics, and i really enjoy taking care of my little colony
fawnblue5 Oct 2021, 19:21
classic concept and good execution! i do wish it was a bit easier to visualize status of each of the different nodes as well as health of the humans. sometimes i was caught off-guard (but maybe that's part of the difficulty :) ) - anyway great job!
foxxy
foxxy5 Oct 2021, 19:23
Great game. Looks like a real industrial control panel. Nice touch with the dynamic the audio.
Shaggy
Shaggy5 Oct 2021, 19:30
Really neat. I'm at day 10 now. Can it go on for forever?
thedude36005 Oct 2021, 19:44
This kind of game is dangerous for me, I could easily myself losing some serious time playing this. That is, if I dont kill everyone in the colony ;-). I think a little bit of a hint on what to do at the start would be helpful. I sat there for about 5 minutes before I realized no one was actually in the colony yet. and another few minutes fiddling with the dials until I realized they were all turned off and I needed to turn on the water first before the others would turn on. But overall, its a good game!
Bastienre4
Bastienre45 Oct 2021, 20:03
One of my favorite entry so far. Overwhelming at first glance but it really "clicks" after few seconds/minutes.
It's a simple yet effective gameplay.

Good job!
Falzock
Falzockauthor5 Oct 2021, 21:39
@shaggy At day 12 the last new human is added. In testing day 13 was the maximum. But you can try to be better then that. :D
TheGamerASD
TheGamerASD7 Oct 2021, 13:19
Nice game, I really like the idea!
LDJam user 263763
LDJam user 2637638 Oct 2021, 10:13
I like it! love space environment games, only i little hard to control lol, the theme match perfectly, i think more stable will be great and more development, i love the idea, great work!
LTyrosine
LTyrosine9 Oct 2021, 15:14
It takes some time to understand it but after that is a really cool game. I was asking my self "hmmm but where is them usage here?" then the dials start to go like cray and I "yeah there it is :smile:". Got 4 humans and then they are dead by a lack of energy. I'm playing it again.
MakimoPL11 Oct 2021, 10:08
Good job! I have a lot of fun playing this game!
DaSpikeyBoss
DaSpikeyBoss16 Oct 2021, 04:58
Nice! This is a very interesting game. It took me a bit to work out what to do but I guess that is part of the "weren't a hundred percent honest in your resumee". I think it should have gotten harder faster because I barely had any trouble as long as I made sure the reactor didn't go into red. I think you probably should do some balancing of the different options if you do a post jam version because the main thing to watch is just the reactor.

Regardless, this is still a really good game even without changing that. Good Job!
M2tias18 Oct 2021, 18:57
Haha, fun game :D
It was easy while keeping my attention very well. Good combo for a jam game! Graphics were mostly alright, but felt really rushed. The screen with the effect was cool though!
VarunDevs
VarunDevs20 Oct 2021, 04:15
Nice I can't Believe it this game is still under danger zone :(
cppchriscpp20 Oct 2021, 05:17
Dang, that was kinda stressful! I managed to get to day 15, though barely. I wasn't sure if there was an end at all. Definitely a cool idea, and I liked how the difficulty escalated. An endgame would have been kind of neat and rewarding, but otherwise you managed something really cool here. Thanks for a fun game.
coolestdoggie
coolestdoggie20 Oct 2021, 14:44
Great work! I love it! I think it's a good game for "Keep it alive" theme, but for "Unstable" is okay too. Congrats!

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