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The 13th Colony by kristinamay

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made by kristinamay for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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Don't wanna read our cool intro? Skip it and play the game here!

Intro

Question: How many space colonists does it take to keep the human race from becoming extinct?

Answer: ...well, probably more than we have.

The 13th Colony is a game about the last vestiges of humanity. Earth is toast, and you're the Exploration Lieutenant for the very last Mission to Planet Kepler-22b.

Can you find the resources you need to keep the base from breaking down? Or at least... delay it?

Can you discover what happened to colonies 1-12?

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Features

Gather Resources to Keep Your Base Alive!

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Traverse the Alien Planet in Your Car!!

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Explore 3 Different Biomes!

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Discover All 12 (Other) Colonies!

Avoid Alien Monsters!

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Read Tons of Story!

Hang With a Big Cast of Characters!

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Randomly Generated Worlds - Non-Zero Replayability Value!

Meta

Although this is a jam game, all code, assets, and music were created from scratch (compo rules):

Code: bkelly

Art: kristinamay (in Pixaki)

Music: kristinamay (in Medley)

Writing: kristinamay + Fletcher (thanks for the help!)

Thanks a bundle for giving our game a try - we worked so hard on it and are excited to see what you all discover on Kepple-B!

Whoops!

There might be a few things we didn't get a chance to finish or polish as much as we'd like. If you get a message on-screen that doesn't totally make sense, that's why. It's definitely playable to the end (there are several different endings!), but any "TODO"s you see (hopefully you won't!) are an artifact of our being quite ambitious with this game.

Source Code https://github.com/b-kelly/ludum-dare-50
Web Version https://b-kelly.github.io/ludum-dare-50/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-13th-colony

Ratings

Overall 346th 3.795⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Fun 613th 3.449⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 306th 3.679⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Theme 744th 3.615⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 632th 3.718⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Audio 448th 3.526⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 820th 2.73⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Mood 468th 3.692⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Given 40🗳️ 65🗨️

Feedback

reneantunes
05. Apr 2022 · 14:52 UTC
Really well done. Great style.
MichaelL
05. Apr 2022 · 14:54 UTC
Incredibly polished for a jam entry!! I saw 2 people were listed, did you create all the art and music yourselves as well??
darkboulevard
05. Apr 2022 · 14:59 UTC
Amazing graphics! Congrats!
James Beninger
05. Apr 2022 · 15:07 UTC
Wow. So much content here for a jam game. You basically built two separate games and put them together. Incredible.
ruruie
05. Apr 2022 · 15:14 UTC
This is a very complete game for a jam. I do feel the main loop of gathering stuff on the map maybe outstays its welcome because it takes a while but it seems like it wants you to do it a lot and the mobs aren't really a threat (actually they can be used to glitch into the walls for 1hp).
GreenPig
05. Apr 2022 · 15:14 UTC
Incredibly good game i really enjoyed playing it, but i wanna point out a few things that kind of annoyed me while playing, i dont know if they're intended or not but if you make a game in the future (i would gladly play it because this is awesome too) you could pay attention to these details.

First off - i dont know if i'm blind or didnt pay enough attention but i never where can i find some type of resource and always died on the first night at the start because i started with like -2 water.
Then - I sometimes spawned in to an exploration with really nowwhere to go, i was surrounded by walls and had no resources to take with me and that was kind of annoying and other times i only had like the half of the map because of the map generation

Other than these awesome game and i really liked it
--0
05. Apr 2022 · 15:21 UTC
This seems like a super fun game, unfortunately I'm frequently encountering a bug where when I try to move on the overworld map, I don't stop at the tile I'm moving to and instead go zooming off the map. I'm playing the game on Firefox if that is relevant (update it also happens on Chromium).
🎤 kristinamay
05. Apr 2022 · 15:55 UTC
@michaell Yep - I made all the art and music and writing and bkelly made the code.

@--0 That's so weird - I haven't been able to repro that bug. Could you outline specific steps that you take to repro the bug? Does it happen reliably?

@greenpig I'm sorry to hear that! Do you mean you can't find any water resources? Or do you mean that your starting water is really low?
mwcz
05. Apr 2022 · 15:55 UTC
It's nice to see another Phaser game! I'm sincerely impressed at how many mechanics you fit into the game, and the polish on top of that is really excellent.

The only problem I had was not being able to reach some resources because they spawned in an inaccessible area of the map. I'll try out the wall clip @ruruie mentioned. :)
🎤 kristinamay
05. Apr 2022 · 16:06 UTC
@mwcz @rurie I feel like we've made it when people start figuring out ways to cheese the game. :grin:
GreenPig
05. Apr 2022 · 16:07 UTC
@kristinamay both tbh but the starting level wouldn't be a big problem if I'd know where to search for water.
🎤 kristinamay
05. Apr 2022 · 16:30 UTC
@greenpig When you get to a tile, you can (usually) hit "explore" on it to find resources (and dodge bad guys). Desert tiles have much lower rate of water spawning, though.
GreenPig
05. Apr 2022 · 16:49 UTC
Yes thank you i've figured it out @kristinamay i was just saying that when i first opened the game it posed a problem but thank you:))
Nick Saulnier
05. Apr 2022 · 17:07 UTC
Awesome entry, great visuals. Gameplay loop was interesting and unique, but it took me a couple failed attempts to really understand what I was doing. After adjustment, was fun!
digitaldude555
05. Apr 2022 · 17:08 UTC
Very nice, the sound design fits an alien world, I like the different creatures and biomes in place, impressive what you guys have done in 3 days, only critique is the gameplay started to feel like a chore after a while. Otherwise a great game and good take on the theme.
Guy Girmonsky
05. Apr 2022 · 17:48 UTC
This is a really nice game, I wouldn't assume its for a jam and the fact that it was made with compo rules is even more impressive.
I like these type of games, and the randomly generated worlds has a warm place in my heart. That's a great entry, well done!
HCS_Hades
05. Apr 2022 · 18:49 UTC
Works really well - nice flow and transitions. Art is great and gets the point across - love the little lizards. A lot of depth for a weekend jam game! You should be stoked on the final product :)
Morricore
05. Apr 2022 · 18:54 UTC
Interesting take on theme. Ambitios mechanic. But learning curve make things complicated. Great work!
Btw some spacing problem. Game is higher than my default size tab.
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TheGameOverGuy
05. Apr 2022 · 19:02 UTC
Wow, really well done. This has some serious potential. Keep it up!
Cresceda
05. Apr 2022 · 19:19 UTC
I can't really add on top of others here, nicely done for the time that was available! Weirdly enough quite a lot of immersion and a lot of effort went into this. It has a lot of potential, you may want to continue on this after the jam ^^

Edit: I looked at both of your other games, really like the look of them =)
Sam Minh
05. Apr 2022 · 19:23 UTC
A very nice entry. I got very immersed in exploring an alien world. Exploring around the planet and around the individual hexes was really nice.
I encountered a bug where if you die and restart in the same session you keep the resources from the previous game, meaning I started with negative water.
Christian Zommerfelds
05. Apr 2022 · 19:27 UTC
Congrats on your submission! Some thoughts:

* It wasn't clear to me why I was collecting those resources. Maybe add a warning saying "you will lose the game if you don't collect X". Ah or even better, make the resource counts drop down with an animation and sound and make them go blinking red. I guess it was written on the page below the game but I didn't read it until now :)
* Really cool hex based exploration. Loved that part of the game.
* Nice atmosphere with the music and story.
* I guess the monster part was a bit repetitive but I'm sure you would have added different movement patters and attacks with more time :)
Joconda
05. Apr 2022 · 19:34 UTC
Great result, much enjoyed playing it. Visuals are awesome as well as sound design and music.
Cover Club Media
05. Apr 2022 · 19:45 UTC
not enough time in the day to explore this vast universe. Well done!
Str8griz
05. Apr 2022 · 22:02 UTC
I like the multi-play style with the scanning and exploring options to break up the game play. Pretty crazy what can be accomplished in a weekend!
LDJam user 279610
05. Apr 2022 · 22:10 UTC
This game is great! I love the depth to it and the multiple play mechanics. You are right, our games were very similar in many ways!

Your game reminds me of the old Star Control 2 game, one where you kept driving around planets grabbing resources and avoiding aliens.

I really like your art, audio, and overall design. I would *love* to play a bigger version of this game and it's one of the LD50 games I plan to play many more times as-is. Good job.
Quartzite
06. Apr 2022 · 00:49 UTC
This is such a cool game, and feels super complete and fleshed out for a jam! The visuals and audio really sell the story, and the story and mechanics are very immersive. Only annoyance I ran into was not being able to get to certain open areas with resources during explorations, but maybe that was intentional. Super small detail, but I loved that the enemies had squares around them while the resources had circles. It made it much easier to tell what you should go after and what you should avoid at the beginning.
Fromage
06. Apr 2022 · 03:16 UTC
This is really good! Kinda give me Starflight vibes! I could see the exploring be a bit more dangerous
clemonades
06. Apr 2022 · 03:27 UTC
This was great! I didn't click explore the first few trips and then when I did, I discovered a whole new game! Then I obviously had to play again...and again...thanks, I think? Solid gameplay loop, nicely done :D
Firstborn Unicorn
06. Apr 2022 · 09:00 UTC
Absolutely crazy amount of work! Super cool design, thumbs up!
CaramelCode
06. Apr 2022 · 20:07 UTC
A Phaser game! Also in TypeScript! +1 stars from me just for that! I think this is my favorite game that I've played so far. Very appealing art, and the game seems very very well polished. My only feedback is to disable the tile tool-tips when the cursor is over a dialog window. It overlaps tile tooltip like "unknown region" overlaps the dialog text window. But that is the only thing I noticed. Amazing game! Great work to your whole team!
Emmatw
06. Apr 2022 · 20:14 UTC
Really nice game! Graphics and audio was great and it had a strong connection to the theme. Well done!
LDJam user 279754
07. Apr 2022 · 08:37 UTC
Nice graphics, looks like an interesting idea at first, but i didnt get the idea completely. What do we do. What is the main goal. but overall nice game with cool art
PashaLoban
07. Apr 2022 · 15:47 UTC
Cool game
doomshmuck
07. Apr 2022 · 22:57 UTC
The amount of content here is definitely impressive. I think it may have been too much for a jam game though. I really would have liked more HUD indicators for status, such as health, remaining energy, whether I've picked up everything while exploring, etc. I didn't play it for too long as I don't really have a lot of time to play these games (which is partly why I think this may have been too much for a jam game). What I did play was cool, and definitely impressed me on the amount of different mechanics the game has.
jasontherand
08. Apr 2022 · 02:02 UTC
So good! The fact that you did both a strategy and an action layer is very impressive. This game is huge! I loved the different biomes, and the fact they each had their own soundtrack was awesome. The exploration movement was fun, and it always felt doable to avoid the enemies, while still being a challenge. Fantastic job!