Dream Harvest by Allan Urique

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made by Allan Urique for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

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WEB BUILD ADDED POST JAM (NO UPDATES MADE TO THE GAME)

READ BEFORE PLAYING! I unfortunately won't have time to add instructions in the game lol

Instructions:

Click in the dreams bubble before they disappear to collect them.

Once you have enough dreams you unlock the railgun.

WASD rotates camera.

R changes to shoot mode (Gets disabled when you aim at the planet or the sun, press R again to enable it).

B changes to build mode (Can only be enabled in the Sun)!

Aim and click on the sun to move to it.

Backstory

You are from a species called Murak, human like creatures that have long evolved into a type 4 civilization. You've been sent to this Solar System to harvest some resources as one of your a daily tasks. Apparently, the Ancient Dynasty needs more resources to build a new Galaxy Super Cluster, you've been told that dreams work super well as a celestial fuel when mixed with some elements you can get from the smoldering surface of the sun.

WARNINGS and notes!

The game has a few quirky things going on that I won't be able to solve before the end of the jam as I'll be away from my computer for some time:

Progression: - The amount of resources to reach each milestone is shown in the right panel. Once you have enough resources and unlock the next part of the Dyson Sphere, the objective will update automatically.

Get Dreams to unlock the Railgun Press "R" and shoot meteors to get Iron and Ubaru to eventually have enough to build the Dyson Sphere Foundation The Foundation will collect Milithium for you, so get more dreams, iron and ubaru until you have enought to build the Dyson Sphere Energy Poles The Poles will get Gramanthium for you, so go back to dreams and meteors until you get the Dyson Sphere Disks.

*The Sun is where you gets Milithium and Gramanthium, however these are harvested automatically by the Dyson Sphere Foundation and Dyson Sphere Energy Poles respectively, so just shoot meteors (gives Iron and Ubaru) and collect dreams from the planet, the Dyson Sphere parts will do the dirty job in the Sun for you.

  • Shooting meteors can be a bit frustrating, I don't know what I did (possibly the perspective needs some tweeks) but sometimes it looks like you are hitting the meteor, but in fact, you aren't lol. I noticed that rotating the camera around can give better angles and the shots will hit eventually, if you're not being able to hit one specific annoying little comet, just look for another one that's closeby.

  • When you aim at the planet, sun or the moon, the Railgun get's disabled. A voice line was supposed to be played when you did this mocking you for trying commit mass extinction... Unfortunately I wasn't able to record the voice line and implement it, so instead of a bit funny, it's a bit annoying lol.. Just hit R again and you should be fine.

  • There is an obvious lack of feedback in the game, there are no sounds apart from the music and almost no effects when you actually perform something so I've opted out of the "Audio" category.

  • The humor aspect was going to come from the voice lines, too bad lol, opted out too.

Thank you so much for playing, I hoped to give you a much better experience, unfortunately but welp, the feature cutting is real lol.

LudumDare 52 was great!!

Ratings

Given 11🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

TolMera
09. Jan 2023 · 10:57 UTC
If you can post a web version more people can try.
🎤 Allan Urique
10. Jan 2023 · 13:40 UTC
@tolmera, thanks for the suggestion, I've just added a Web build! :)
Merin Car Trunk Key
10. Jan 2023 · 14:31 UTC
I like the graphics and the idea. Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to shoot at anything. It would be cool to see more planets and see what resources they would have on them
TheOtherSamP
10. Jan 2023 · 14:32 UTC
~~I don't know whether the game is broken or whether I'm being a doofus, but I can't work out how to shoot. I assume I'm meant to aim with the mouse and click? Nothing appears to happen when I do that - although after a few minutes of fiddling about I did notice that I apparently had 3 dreams, so maybe something did happen.~~

I didn't read the description properly, sorry. It works!

The dreams are the white things that appear over the planet, and they have to be clicked to be collected. The gun unlocks after the first objective, which is 10 dreams.
LookLeftStudio
10. Jan 2023 · 14:38 UTC
I'm not sure if it is the new web version or what, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to shoot. I've pressed R to enable the shooting mode, but then nothing seems to happen. Pressing left click, right click, space, enter... nothing seems to work. @allan-urique if you have any advice let me know, because this game looks like a ton of fun and I'm excited to play it :)
TheOtherSamP
10. Jan 2023 · 14:46 UTC
This is fun, and I like the Dyson Sphere theme. Unfortunately, I'm finding the dreams quite tedious to collect compared to the shooting. Perhaps I'm still slow after Ludum Dare's lack of sleep, but I'm often getting to them a split second too late. That's probably just my poor twitch/shooter gaming skills!

I think I've encountered a bug. I've achieved the numbers for the second objective, but it hasn't acknowledged that I've competed it.

Visuals are very pretty!
TheOtherSamP
10. Jan 2023 · 14:47 UTC
@lookleftstudio I had that problem. You have to complete the first dreams objective, then the gun unlocks. It does say that in the description, but it's a bit hidden. The dreams objective is clicking on 10 dreams - the white things that appear briefly over the planet.
🎤 Allan Urique
10. Jan 2023 · 14:53 UTC
@merin-car-trunk-key, thanks for playing and for the feedback! To shoot you need to complete the first objective and them press "R" to enable the Railgun. I've updated the description to make this more clear!
Lerg
10. Jan 2023 · 14:56 UTC
Too bad the controls are so tight, unfortunately couldn't play. But looks really nice and I always like the space theme.
LookLeftStudio
10. Jan 2023 · 15:00 UTC
@theothersamp That makes sense! I saw the dreams popping up over the planet, but I assumed it was an energy shield to block the asteroids from hitting the planet. I'll give it another spin.

After playing the game I think it would be a bit more clear if the dreams only appeared on the dark side of the earth, since that is where most people would be sleeping. Another thing that would be really useful is to have a little icon next to each resource that shows what it looks like in the game.
🎤 Allan Urique
10. Jan 2023 · 15:08 UTC
@theothersamp, thanks for plaaaaying! Hahaha they are very quick indeed, you have to be fast..

I wasn't able to reproduce the bug you mentioned unfortunately, but I'll look into what might've caused it, thanks!
Bowen
10. Jan 2023 · 16:18 UTC
Look cool, play boring.
grizeldi
10. Jan 2023 · 19:52 UTC
Seems to bugged sadly, I've fulfilled the conditions for the first upgrade stage, but it's not updating them :(
LDJam user 318832
17. Jan 2023 · 13:26 UTC
Graphics and music is very nice, but I don't understand how to play, I tried to read the description and tutorial, but it doesn't help me. Game is good-looking, but gameplay is very confusing.