The Terraformer
You are a Lone Automated Terraforming Unit, (LATU), deployed to a barren exoplanet in a faraway solar system. Your mission: Terraform the wasteland.
To function, ensure to maintain a Signal with your crew. Signal is supplied by already deployed Signal Towers on the exoplanet's surface. Place further Signal Towers, expand, and terraform the barren world into a green environment.
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* Signal: Signal (/ dBm) is your currency. Charge it close to Signal Towers, spend it to expand.
* Expansion: Use your signal to build more signal towers to expand your range across the planet.
* Terraforming: Your goal is to plant and sustain 25 trees to complete a successful terraform.
* Care: To ensure the wellbeing of each tree, they must be watered. A lack of water is indicated through shrinking and yellow leaves.
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To function, ensure to maintain a Signal with your crew. Signal is supplied by already deployed Signal Towers on the exoplanet's surface. Place further Signal Towers, expand, and terraform the barren world into a green environment.
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Mechanics
* Signal: Signal (/ dBm) is your currency. Charge it close to Signal Towers, spend it to expand.
* Expansion: Use your signal to build more signal towers to expand your range across the planet.
* Terraforming: Your goal is to plant and sustain 25 trees to complete a successful terraform.
* Care: To ensure the wellbeing of each tree, they must be watered. A lack of water is indicated through shrinking and yellow leaves.
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Economy
| Item | Cost |
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| Signal Tower | 50 dBm |
| Tree | 25 dBm |
| Water | 15 dBm |
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Controls
| Action | Input |
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| Pan Camera | Middle Mouse Button and Drag |
| Zoom | Scrollwheel |
| Move | Left Click and Drag |
| Plant Tree | '1' |
| Place Tower | '2' |
| Water | 'Q' |
Comments28
Also I should mention you have wrong controls in the description, it plants the tree on '1' and places the tower on '2'
I struggled a lot at first with the camera and character controls, but I know that spherical movement is not easy to pull off. I wish there was buttons on screen to do the different actions, as I had to scroll down the page to check the controls, which is a bummer. Other than that, I enjoyed planting things around the planet, and I like the mood of the game. The voice can be repetitive after some time, mostly because voice lines can overlap.
Congratulations for the entry!
Thanks for the feedback. When placing the signal towers there is a certain minimum distance they need to be from each other, I was planning to still indicate that but we ran out of time. The idea with the biomes also sounds really fun, and I will actually look into that. I tried to sort of emulate the controls of a blender with the mouse wheel drag, but I fully agree they are a bit cryptic
I really liked the music, though. It reminded me of Stranger Things.
The lack of feedback for "unsufficient funds" was really frustrating in the beginning, and froced to re-read the instructions several times to get a grasp of how the game works and what is the goal.
Player control feeled very tricky and "worked" against the players will several time, maybe there is a sphere related bug?