Escape from Exodus Prime by zollmaniac

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made by zollmaniac for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Escape from Exodus Prime is about saving the remaining people alive on a now toxic world. The environment is progressively getting worse and lowering the food production of Exodus Prime. Your mission is to colonize the other planets in the system, so the population from Exodus Prime can escape and live. Good luck!

Update:

  1. Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash after the tutorial/instructions section.
  2. Fixed a bug that caused a crash due to a missing variable in the Food/Death section of Exodus Prime.
  3. Added .zip version of the file.

Ratings

Overall 2344th 2.846⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 2233th 2.72⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 2258th 2.66⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 2242th 2.98⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 2168th 2.646⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 2217th 2.646⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

Arttu Halonen
21. Apr 2020 · 17:41 UTC
I liked the concept, and the core mechanics seemed to work nicely! The game did feel a bit too slow and long, though. Maybe you could condense the experience a bit? Also if you want to take things further, some sounds or music would improve the overall feel.
synoxgames
22. Apr 2020 · 04:18 UTC
I thought this game was pretty good! I really liked the mechanics and the aesthetic, it fit well! The sprites were all well drawn and the gameplay, while slow, was fun!
Arcus
22. Apr 2020 · 19:46 UTC
Great mechanics / gameplay. Prety graphics, with a good fit for the theme :smiley:
Kszaku
22. Apr 2020 · 21:12 UTC
I am kinda lost on what I am supposed to do, but hey, its your first game! :D Congrats, hope you keep working on it.
Yoshify
23. Apr 2020 · 08:35 UTC
Congratulations on your first jam game! I enjoyed it, the art is well made. Good job :)
Shubh
23. Apr 2020 · 08:38 UTC
Nice game but can be improved
krakadushka
23. Apr 2020 · 12:10 UTC
Very difficult. I don't like when the tutorial is laid out before the game and all the mechanics fall out on the player at once
ggrusha
24. Apr 2020 · 08:56 UTC
Good art, thank you for your work!
Gorypixels
24. Apr 2020 · 20:02 UTC
I wasn't able to figure out anything with this quarantined brain of mine, but I was surprised with the amount of content you've made for this! :D
🎤 zollmaniac
27. Apr 2020 · 20:13 UTC
@arttu-halonen @synoxgames @arcus @kszaku @yoshify @shubh @krakadushka @ggrusha @gorypixels

Thanks everyone for the feedback and ratings! This was my first game from start to finish... I've dabbled a little bit this past year, but not actually completed anything. The scope for 3 days was probably too large, and what made it in the game was actually toned down significantly from what I originally wanted!

I'm hoping to take the ideas behind the game and make something out of it. Either way, I'm happy to have done enough co complete it. Wish I'd had time to add in tooltips or a better tutorial. :)
krakadushka
27. Apr 2020 · 21:13 UTC
@zollmaniac Now you are free to implement the original plan :) It will be cool, I think!
melomel
09. May 2020 · 21:08 UTC
I love it, it reminds me of Anno 2070 which is a favorite game of mine.
The speed was a bit slow for me, too, but I have it running in the background and then I click things occasionally. I was hoping I could win, but it seems like there is not enough space on the two planets. I need a lot more planets for all these people. More to do would make it seem less slow, being able to destroy buildings would help, and maybe greying out buildings when they can't be built on the tile selected? If you are gonna work on this further I'll be interested to see the results.