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Mars Colony Alpha

By max-s, falzock and Rabenherz

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4793.7123
Fun5573.5923
Innovation5473.5023
Theme6163.6623
Graphics8663.4723
Audio8512.9222
Humor7522.9022
Mood5743.5723

Comments

d3w 2021-10-04 21:00

I love the concept and aesthetic!

0x-void-x0 2021-10-05 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 2021-10-05 19:16

Good entry, good graphics, and i really enjoy taking care of my little colony

fawnblue 2021-10-05 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 2021-10-05 19:23

Great game. Looks like a real industrial control panel. Nice touch with the dynamic the audio.

shaggy 2021-10-05 19:30

Really neat. I'm at day 10 now. Can it go on for forever?

thedude3600 2021-10-05 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 2021-10-05 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 2021-10-05 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 2021-10-07 13:19

Nice game, I really like the idea!

dreamerflow 2021-10-08 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 2021-10-09 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.

makimopl 2021-10-11 10:08

Good job! I have a lot of fun playing this game!

daspikeyboss 2021-10-16 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!

m2tias 2021-10-18 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 2021-10-20 04:15

Nice I can't Believe it this game is still under danger zone :(

potatolain 2021-10-20 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.

2021-10-20 01_19_15-Mars Colony Alpha by Max Schmoecker, Falzock.png

coolestdoggie 2021-10-20 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!