Well.. this is the first update of the project’s progress…

Name

To honor the first alien known to humanity, the game is called Can you hear me Major Tom?

Gameplay

The goal of the game is avoid aliens to know about human race. For that to happen you need to avoid the awareness stats from growing.

The awareness stats are:

• Existence (increases when aliens find emissions)
• Position (increases when radio emissions get a successful position analysis)
• Language (increases when radio emissions get a successful language analysis)
• Culture (increases when space missions are captured and analyzed successfully)
• Contact (increases when ships land in earth)

As you may see the gameplay is based in emissions going out from earth and aliens intercepting those emissions.

For now I have implemented the base spawner, radio, mission and garbage emissions:

I’ve also implemented the base alien stations with a functioning listener that captures emissions with a specified range, analyze them and update the awareness stats.

You can see Earth and some mocked emissions in the screenshot:

Now I should start working in the resources (matter and energy) and the tools you use to influence emissions and avoid them to be noticed/analyzed by aliens.

Let’s see how far I get!