Verutum Aether by Rother Games
Let's play the most distinguished game possible, the game of
Mankind vs. the Universe, a story of fail and success,
of victory and deprivation, of life and death.
More Information about Rother UE: facebook.com/rotherue
FAQ:
Please remember to unzip it before playing!
Please notice to press any key to remove the Startup Screen, and to press "H" to rush through the tutorial, which pops up automatically after starting the Game.
Have fun :-)
Mankind vs. the Universe, a story of fail and success,
of victory and deprivation, of life and death.
More Information about Rother UE: facebook.com/rotherue
FAQ:
Please remember to unzip it before playing!
Please notice to press any key to remove the Startup Screen, and to press "H" to rush through the tutorial, which pops up automatically after starting the Game.
Have fun :-)
| Windows | http://www.bit.ly/verutumaether |
| Windows Bugfixed v.1.02 | http://www.bit.ly/VerutumAetherBugfixed |
| Source | http://www.bit.ly/verutumaethersource |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=28953 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 82% | 2 |
| Overall | 2.57 | 1087 |
| Audio | 2.65 | 585 |
| Fun | 2.45 | 1034 |
| Graphics | 2.24 | 1059 |
| Humor | 2.34 | 669 |
| Innovation | 3.02 | 646 |
| Mood | 2.54 | 889 |
| Theme | 2.43 | 1169 |
Windows 8 x64
This is sad, because the game is very appealing. Graphics are great, music is catchy, UI is comfortable.
Oh, and you should add a white border to the mouse pointer, I can't see it on black background.
You need a very high level of each Technology to unlock a new rocket.
Hint:
At first do not spend much money on researching. It is better if you complete contracts first.
tried on Windows 64bit
The graphics were cute, but the text is sometimes hard to read in the tutorial because of the background. Maybe put a bubble behind the tutorial text?
I eventually had to stop playing because the mouse cursor was only moving about a pixel a second. Window 7 64 bit
Still buggy, but hey - that's the spirit of LD.
After this it got tricky. Without understanding, I accepted a contract to send a rocket to Venus. Then my rockets said "Rocket has not enough power." Then I noticed that they are LEO and the second rocket LEO/GEO. So that made sense.
However, I later accepted contracts for LEO and GEO launches that were within my load capacity. But still it said "rocket has not enough power."
I was never able to conduct another launch for the rest of the game. I spent all of my profits from the first launch and all of my capital and even went negative, and got my research up enough to have R3.
So I had LEO, GEO, and Moon missions. I had the rockets for those orbit types. I had enough carrying capacity. But still the game wouldn't let me launch, always saying "rocket has not enough power." I did not understand and eventually gave up (after running my business into the ground).
Very cool concept but something went wrong, either I didn't understand, or there was a bug that having a Venus contract in my list prevented me from executing any other contracts.
Very interesting concept, though. I liked the approach and it was too bad I couldn't get deeper into this and reach out to the solar system.
(I did play the bugfix version)
Thank you for reporting this bug.
I am going to fix it today.
Did you write the song (wow)? What tools did you use?
Tools:
music:
http://www.fakemusicgenerator.com/
(I generated about 200 songs and listen to it)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=en
art:
http://www.getpaint.net/