Unsustainable

by sarajs
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.97
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.47
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Update: Post-jam version fixes major bug where game does not end properly when all humans have reached the portal.

A game about guiding the last living people out of a dying world.

How many people can you escape with?
How *quickly* can you escape?

Use the mouse to select and control the humans. Right click to issue context sensitive commands. Build homes and farms when you can to bolster your numbers while staying on the move to get away from this doomed world. Tiles will fall over time. Trees are a valuable resource but also prevent tiles from falling.

- Middle-click or use arrow keys to move camera around.
- Space bar to snap between goal and nearby humans.
- Alt+enter to toggle fullscreen
- Alt+f4 to quit (lol sorry)
- R at any point to restart the game (be careful!)

Dev Notes:
Oops I tried to make an RTS for a game jam. I knew from the get go I was making a Mistake but sometimes you can't shake that one idea. I'm honestly surprised how much I *did* get done and while it's not my strongest entry by a while it might be the one I've learned the most from in recent memory.

Comments23

Dannyk19944 Oct 2021, 22:38
Game really shafted me on the first couple of play throughs hah Game was really fun to play and had me restarting over and over. Love the overall look and feel of the game. The game loop is simple yet satisfying. The map is just big enough to keep you occupied without being overwhelming. Really solid entry and lot's of fun :v:
SuperGamersGames
SuperGamersGames4 Oct 2021, 22:42
It's pretty good, but I just needed to farm a bunch people into existence and build bridges. :P
Naymsayk
Naymsayk4 Oct 2021, 23:01
Hello Shaun. It's kinda odd writing a rating for your game while you are on stream. The the game is pretty easy but I did enjoy the heck out of building bridges into the nowhere and hoping my dudes would follow along into the purple portal.
Lawrence
Lawrence4 Oct 2021, 23:08
I like how you can play it in different styles, at first I went headfirst towards portal and completed it in about 5 minutes, bet then second time made multiple villages and reached end with 30 seconds to spare :smile:
There was a problem at the very end though, I clicked space and error showed up:
MoistMug4 Oct 2021, 23:48
Was surprised to see that shift clicking lets you select multiple villagers, because drag select didn't work for some reason.
Still innocently fun doing crazy lines between landscapes in time before my deforestation destroys the island behind, and had a healthy laugh seeing everyone plummet after I had forgotten about the time limit.
curleyrach4 Oct 2021, 23:57
Was a pretty enjoyable experience to run through. Graphics are cute and its a cool take on the theme. Nice one!
Daniel Giorlando5 Oct 2021, 02:07
I liked it! The controls were really tight. I tried one run where I rushed the portal and got 31 people out, and on my next run I tried to build up as I went and made it out with 71.
LDJam user 178331
LDJam user 1783315 Oct 2021, 05:59
Really cool! RTS games usually aren't my thing but this one kept me interested and engaged. Love the art and overall aesthetic, and while the controls confused me at first the game felt very easy and satisfying to play after getting used to it. The lack of any sound is kind of a bummer, though... it could really add a lot! Overall, really good entry :)
ProfessorFunk5 Oct 2021, 10:09
Watched on stream. Enjoyed the process. Graphics and visual design were really nice and the controls were smooth and well communicated. Audio feedback would have made a big difference and I encountered the bug where the level doesn't end when all the population are in the portal. Otherwise a really nice take on the theme.
Boneshot Studios
Boneshot Studios5 Oct 2021, 19:53
Great game, didn't really understood at first but pretty fun afterwards
LDJam user 235694
LDJam user 2356945 Oct 2021, 21:53
Very cool game, it's a pity that there is no sound here, it seems to me that the sounds of the wind would be very good. But in general, I liked the game.
Pixelydian
Pixelydian5 Oct 2021, 23:58
As a patreon supporter, I'm probably a little bias but I really did enjoy playing your game! I had a moment where I said out loud "would be nice if I could select everyone in an area" and when I tried it and it worked I thought, of course Shaun thought of that :-P. Great visual presentation, overall really fun, and I would love to see you continue working on it and expanding it!
Astropower
Astropower6 Oct 2021, 03:53
Interesting idea, good graphics and enjoyable experience
Hare Software
Hare Software6 Oct 2021, 11:59
The game feels really polished and I could play it pretty much right away without any tutorials. The gameplay also nicely incorporates the theme and is quite fun. The drag select does not seem to work when not dragging from left top to right bottom. From my experience with making RTS games in GameMaker that is probably due to using point_in_rectangle(), which does not work if the coordinates of the rectangle are inverted. After all that you thought me, I hope this helps you ;). Great work!
LDJam user 269161
LDJam user 2691616 Oct 2021, 12:57
Nice Game which is about a important topic of todays life!
José Bonilla
José Bonilla6 Oct 2021, 13:56
Beautiful game. Amazing job for a compo game. I managed to get 19 survivors. One of the best games played so far. Congrats!
Wuppos
Wuppos6 Oct 2021, 18:41
Really cool game and really cool to finally be able to play it :D Watching your stream while I was working on my own game, and seeing you take on this massively overscoped idea made me feel better about my own overscoped ideas :P

The game was really nice and very intuitive to understand. As Hare Software also mentioned, sometimes the drag select would not work. I also had a few bugs where I could not multitask my people. I wanted to have one team on gathering wood, and another on making bridges towards the portal, but whenever there were two bridges being made at once, one of the two bridges would stop progressing halfway.

Bugs aside I think it was a really enjoyable experience, and very rewarding to get people to the portal. I think the kind of choices you had to make were interesting. For example, do I go straight to the portal, or do I take spend some time and wood to get to this patch of trees of to the side. I liked that it was not immediately obvious which is the better strategy. (At least not to me) In the end I got 15 people out, but seeing other peoples scores this was apparently not that great. I blame it on the spawn I got XD

Really great job! I enjoyed playing a lot :D
ROBOWARRIOR1982
ROBOWARRIOR19826 Oct 2021, 19:16
Really fun and addictive, it lacks of sound. But the gameplay is perfect !
Pierre Morreel9 Oct 2021, 09:28
Nice little experience and good take on this theme ! Nice replayability for all type of challenges, reach as fast as possible the end of grind and gather a maximum people (or two at once). Simple but effective gameplay loop !
o_sim9 Oct 2021, 16:56
Really fun! I liked how there are many viable strategies, it was entertaining to play through multiple times. It is little weird that the 'secondary' goal of raising as much people as possible is where the fun is for me, but I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing. There are some bugs here and there, but that is what to be expected. Overall very strong and unique entry, my best is 122 people saved.
ShaunJS12 Oct 2021, 12:22
wow @o-sim that is the best score I've seen!
PenguinMunch20 Oct 2021, 23:14
It was super fun to watch all my little people run around and build infinite amounts of bridges until they safely make it through the portal! The art is fantastic as well!

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