Colony Command

If you'd like to see how this plays with some sound and a few improvements/tweaks, feel free to check out the post-jam version on itch.io. I'd like to make some more updates on it, we'll see how it goes!

If you've played the classic arcade game Missile Command, you've got the basic idea of how to play - watch out for incoming threats and take them out with your Defense Installations. Your Habitat Domes will grow as shuttles make deliveries, so do the best you can to protect them!

There is one resource - Energy - which is produced by the domes and used by the defense installations, firing missiles, building, and repairing. If you run out of energy or all your buildings are destroyed, your colony is lost.

Build new domes to expand production faster and more installations to have more firepower. Raise your colony's status from an Ordinary Outpost to a Sparkling Spacetropolis, defeat THE BOSS, and you win!

Unfortunately, the game lacks a tutorial, and as it is a sort of strategy game, I expect it to be pretty overwhelming for players dropped right into it. That video probably does a better job of explaining than any of this text, but here it is as well:

• LEFT CLICK the lovely buttons in the lower right to switch between building Habitats, Installations, or Repair/Build mode. You may also use the keyboard shortcuts 1-3. (Waaaay faster, would recommend)

• Toggle between whichever building mode you're in and shooting by Right Clicking

• Shooting is pretty self explanatory. Click and your missile will go to where you clicked.

• F to toggle full screen. BUG - the game does not scale to less than 1080p or to other aspect ratios than 16 x 9 My apologies, old monitor users!

• ESC to quit.

• R to restart the game entirely.

• D if you feel adventurous and want to see what my crazy, messy debug mode is like.

Actually I hope there aren't too many huge gameplay problems. If there's anything game-breaking, please let me know! There are some balancing issues, but hopefully it errs on the side of too easy rather than too hard. An "ideal" play-through (i.e., no buildings damaged or destroyed) takes around 4-5 minutes to play.

Otherwise, once you get to the halfway point you will see how I ran out of time to do art. (Would you believe that everything that isn't 100% atrocious art was done in the last 2 hours? Because it was!) The lack of interface is a problem too but hopefully nothing important is missing...

And, the big one, no sound at all. That really annoys me this time because I had plans for a lot of cool audio/presentation stuff. But, since I spent all my time flailing about trying to get the gameplay functional...that all got left out.

I had fun as usual doing this, but it does get frustrating how my ability does not expand to meet my visions, haha. SCOPE, I need to learn it. Instead I spend all my time trying to fix the type of mistakes that were made on the last project. E.g. my last GM48 had kind of iffy gameplay and extremely poor (as in, none) background art...so I made sure to try and prioritize that this time. It's still not great, but..

Anyway, I hope people that try it are able to have fun with it!