Ludum Dare #54compo

Ticket to Mars 🎫🚀

by thejookerful

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Send your settlers to your new Martian colony, but be careful to respect social and ethnic diversity as well as gender parity, otherwise your colony will not be able to thrive.

Play on itch.io

Instructions

Select a person and decide if you need them for your colony. You can seat 3 people in each ship, but you can only choose from 5 people at a time, so make the right choices to keep the right balance within your colony.

#### Select a person
Click on one of 5 shadows in background.

#### Accept a person
Click on green button.

#### Launch ship
Once you have filled the 3 seats click on "Launch" button

Screenshots

Tools


Game engine	Unity
C# Scripts	JetBrains Rider
Drawing	Aseprite
Music	GarageBand
Sound effects	Sfxr

Tags: #2d, #pixel art, #space, #space sim

Genres: puzzle, strategy

Tools: Aseprite, GarageBand, Unity, sfxr

Comments12

TheJookerfulauthor2 Oct 2023, 18:32

I made a comment on my game by mistake and now I can't delete it... ^^`

Flancon2 Oct 2023, 18:43

It's an innovative interpretation of the theme. The game is very cool!

LDJam user 2778763 Oct 2023, 00:45

I am so happy to see this idea come to fruition! For a bit on my brainstorming doc I had "solar system realtor," for it has some pleasant double entendre in regards to the phrase 'Limited Space'. Needless too say I enjoy the interpretation of the theme, but I also adore the visuals at the end of a run with all of your peeps as well as the space age soundtrack. Great work!

Subsage3 Oct 2023, 01:59

A very interesting take on the theme, I like it.

kasmilus3 Oct 2023, 08:37

Cool idea, I enjoyed it in the beginning (first 10 ships or so), then I realised it's a bit too easy, it took me about 5/6 ships of picking people completely at random to lose. So the difficulty curve probably needs some work to keep it engaging but I had fun with it :)

TheJookerfulauthor3 Oct 2023, 17:35

@kasmilus Yes, actually, by design, the game becomes easier as the proportion of people we send becomes less and less significant. I think I approached the problem the wrong way, I should have limited the number of ships and established a score at the end based on the diversity of the colony.

Thank you for your feedback! :)

LDJam user 3133263 Oct 2023, 23:03

Nice idea, interesting mechanics! art was pretty good too

TrebleColby4 Oct 2023, 00:28

Definitely one of the more unique game ideas I've seen. I liked the diagetic UI being on a screen, made it very simple to make decisions. If you ever update it, I think adding a clear end-goal or maybe events that affect the population might help keep it interesting.

DSFAN5 Oct 2023, 17:07

Interesting concept with limited seats and balancing the metrics, liked the music it's very thematic. Loved the arts of broke people, without teeth lol

TTKayttis5 Oct 2023, 17:54

I had same kind of ideas for selecting colony people, nice to see other people make it differently since my ideas in the end went to other directions.

Simple mechanic but balancing gauges is still fun with good theme tied to them. I missed at start that i had to take their wealth to account too. I think it was really good choice to hide non people behind shadow so its a small memory game at the same time.