SCATTER by Dr. Argus

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made by Dr. Argus for LD 38 (JAM)

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Crushed under the weight of its own growing population, your "small world" is in dire need of relief.

By combining resources, the people of your planet have only recently mastered spaceflight and manufactured craft and technology that make it possible to move large numbers of inhabitants and cargo over great distances.

The leaders of your planet have decided that they're not going to wait for your people to suffer their own destruction due to the affects of over-population.

It's time to Scatter!

Scatter puts you in charge of the galactic distribution of your planet's inhabitants.

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Your task is simple: Scatter your people before the planet reaches peak population

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As simple as that sounds, the challenges you'll face will create hair-raising tension while you frantically try to manage the scattering.

Please give it a try.

Itch.io: https://doctorargus.itch.io/scatter

We are planning to continue work on it to add more gameplay, art, and polish.

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Flo M
11. May 2017 · 09:41 UTC
I like the idea but I'm having a bit of trouble being able to tell which planet the displayed population refers to (although your last image looks exactly like what I'd want!)
sgstair
15. May 2017 · 23:29 UTC
I got the general idea of this game pretty quickly, but the UI does a very poor job of communicating what's going on. I'd like to see a color/texture change based on the current population. I never would have guessed that the other planets would have tiny population limits. Background music is quite nice, but the transfer sound effect gets repetitive pretty quickly. If you want to make the gameplay more frantic, you may need to limit how quickly people can be moved around in the early game, where as long as you're willing to click a lot you can basically keep the home planet subdued almost indefinitely (it seems)

I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141469699 - time 2:22:15