Arc by machrom

made by machrom for LD 42 (COMPO)

Another one finished!!

Arc

Description

The planet of your species is dead. Now on board a ship -ARC-, you must bring your people and your ship to your destination through various perils on the journey.

Gameplay

At first you have to design your ship, along with placing various systems: * Engine * Life support * Shields * Sensors * Weapons Each play a role in your journey Once you launch your ship a turn represents how far your engines can take you. Also each turn you can do a limited amount of changes/repairs to your ship.

Theme

Since there's a limited amount of space on your ship, you have to manage it well.

Tools

Unity
Gimp
Bosca Ceoil

A few notes

If i had more time i could have added more events along the journey and a few improvements on the ship looks and mechanics, which were planned. I am satisfied with the result, though I could have invested a bit more time Also, it's damn easy to win the game since there are only a few events...

Links

Down below, source code and build.

Windows	https://drive.google.com/open?id=167Be1-kfjfQpu04sarizBEIdwyngyW8l
Source code	https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aW7oxPfQ3joinMDEPDQXmnfhVz6PmVv2
HTML5 (web)	https://machrom.itch.io/arc
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/arc

Ratings

Overall	523^th	3.119⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Fun	515^th	2.932⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	187^th	3.5⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	461^th	3.318⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	536^th	2.841⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Audio	296^th	3.048⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Humor	401^th	2.194⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Mood	221^th	3.238⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		23🗳️	15🗨️

Feedback

Bentekiller

13. Aug 2018 · 11:41 UTC

Looks a bit intimidating, but quite fun to play, tough I couldn't rebuild on top off a already use block, and had no idea when I was able to rebuild more or how many blocks I have to build with. I tried just pure speed on my second run, but ran into battle and lost, but on my last attempt I got to like 80% of the way. I do like these sort of games, I enjoyed it

Wekaj

13. Aug 2018 · 11:47 UTC

Interesting game! I liked the general mood, and the intro was cool, but the gameplay seemed pretty easy once I worked out which components were needed for each event.

Albin

13. Aug 2018 · 12:40 UTC

This was really unique compared to every other LD42 game I've seen so far. I love the strategic gameplay. The only thing I would change is to be able to replace parts instead of having to delete them and place in new ones. Other than that its a really fun game. Well done!

Dark Roast Studios

13. Aug 2018 · 12:41 UTC

Nice idea and I like the ambition of letting the player design their own ship, needs more events for sure, but a really good start!

Borys

13. Aug 2018 · 13:10 UTC

Very unique idea! I really like solution with ship design with many systems that useful for each events. Keep it up!

vivek.sharma20

13. Aug 2018 · 15:47 UTC

The game fits in pretty nicely together graphics wise. For 48 hrs pretty good job. Can use better audio and a bit challenging gameplay

ngUpsiLoN

13. Aug 2018 · 15:52 UTC

Very original idea!
I love your ship creation system, good job to being able to make this in 48h!

The only comment I would have would be to *warn* the player to what he needs to do in order to protect himself for the events (ex: the poison nebula, just write in the description something like "(...) let's home our Life systems will be able to endure this"). It's my humble personnal opinion of course :smile:

Big GG o/

Andrey Ugolnik

15. Aug 2018 · 03:41 UTC

I like your pixelart style but add the html5 build, please.

AwiX

15. Aug 2018 · 07:07 UTC

A good game idea, the music should be improved. The graphics are good.
Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)

🎤 machrom

15. Aug 2018 · 13:38 UTC

Thanks for the great feedback guys! :)

@andrey-ugolnik I've added the link to itch.io, where the web build is hosted. However there are some small UI problems, so I still recommend the Windows build. :eyes:

🎤 machrom

16. Aug 2018 · 14:50 UTC

For everyone that played the web build, the UI should be fixed now! :)

bloodyaugust

18. Aug 2018 · 02:06 UTC

Wow, this is a seriously impressive entry. Short of some UI bugs in the ship building mode (editing while en route seemed to break regularly, fixable by exiting the edit screen and executing a turn), everything here is _very_ solid. The gameplay was both unique and fun, the story short but interesting and at least engaging enough for a compo game, the music was really quite good (I'm totally using that tracker in the future), and the mechanics were solid and well implemented. Really, I just wanted more! :clap: :smile: