The Lone Terraformer by hyperturtle

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made by hyperturtle for LD22 (COMPO)
After leaving Earth X years ago, the humans detected water forming again on earth. They send back a robot(you) back to earth to make it more habitable. It's a puzzle game where you terraform earth!



Yeah.. I'm sorry guys, it sorta wasn't intiutive enough on what to do. (something I'lll have to keep in mind for the next one I make) if you're impatient here's a few hints: click on drill and then drill the trash. it'll give you lasers to laser the ice to make water. laser'ing water gives clouds that give you more water. If you end up with more too many trees, you can drill the trees. if you end up with too much water you can use plants to absorb them, or laser the water.

Ratings

Coolness 51% 3
Overall 2.19 556
Audio 1.08 582
Community 2.40 370
Fun 1.94 518
Graphics 2.63 338
Humor 1.50 473
Innovation 2.69 247
Mood 1.82 518
Theme 1.81 619

Feedback

Zutty
19. Dec 2011 · 13:55 UTC
Pretty, but very hard to figure out what to do.
Wompus
19. Dec 2011 · 14:52 UTC
Fun game! Would be way more playable with hotkeys though.
revilossor
19. Dec 2011 · 16:56 UTC
I didnt understand this, could've done with a tutorial.
spiral
20. Dec 2011 · 09:44 UTC
didn't understand
kato9
20. Dec 2011 · 18:17 UTC
Well I think I was able to figure out what to do through intuition...sort of. I'm guessing I couldn't beat 'easy' mode because I made way more trees than water. It's an interesting concept but the game gets repetitive quickly.
🎤 hyperturtle
20. Dec 2011 · 18:53 UTC
Yeah.. I'm sorry guys, it sorta wasn't intiutive enough on what to do. (something I'lll have to keep in mind for the next one I make) if you're impatient here's a few hints: click on drill and then drill the trash. it'll give you lasers to laser the ice to make water. laser'ing water gives clouds that give you more water. If you end up with more too many trees, you can drill the trees. if you end up with too much water you can use plants to absorb them, or laser the water.
EvilDemonCreature
21. Dec 2011 · 00:10 UTC
Why does the item always switch back to grass every time I click?

It makes using any item (except for grass obviously) very annoying. I think it's something you should have been aware of enough to try to fix. I can only imagine how annoying it was test your own game when it behaves like that.

Also, don't feel bad about your game being hard to understand. I thought I had submitted the simplest, most-intuitive game ever to this LD, and the first comment I got on it was "I have no idea what you are supposed to do or how to do it"
rawbits
21. Dec 2011 · 02:22 UTC
I like what you have made, but just can't figure out what can be done with things. 87 is my best on easy...
Kitch
22. Dec 2011 · 22:54 UTC
I like the concept. Took a while to figure everything out, as mentioned. But could be turned into something great, I believe.
Randomasta
23. Dec 2011 · 12:47 UTC
Need hotkeys badly, and I can't figure out how the plants grow
Kelly Thomas
09. Jan 2012 · 01:19 UTC
Its fun, and I want to try harder levels but I don't know what the win condition is !?!