Lone Settler by Poupi
You are a lone robot on a lifeless planet. Do your best to terraform this distant world before a spaceship full of human settlers fly near your planet to establish the new home for mankind.


How to play :

| Youtube | https://poupi.itch.io/lone-settler |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/lone-settler |
Ratings
| Overall | 90th | 4.161⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 166th | 3.964⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 188th | 3.929⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 349th | 4.089⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 206th | 4.375⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 53th | 4.25⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 178th | 4.107⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 47🗳️ | 33🗨️ |
I had fun, I like the lonely ambiance and the meteors are really cool. Very nice graphics and discreet but efficient sound design. My only complaint would be the choice of controls which feel weird, like the way you switch to use/build actions is mapped to vertical axis of the stick ?
@diinki @sylvainpv @sadzanenyama Can you tell me what disturbed you with the controls ? I tested it with a PS4 controller and it looked fine to me, is it something related to false inputs when moving / selection the action (bad deadzone on the controller), or you just thing the layout is unintuitive.
@shugor Hum the cooler is supposed to not lower the temperature below a specific value, but I probably forgot to double check this value after setting the win/loose conditions ... . The trees caught fire when the planet becomes too hot (or you can set them on fire as a desperate move to keep the temperature ok before the end of the game)
@sadzanenyama There's probably an offset between the color of the gauges and the win/loose values, I'll check that.
the graphics were beautiful and the game was fun, it was a bit complicated to figure out first, but I know how nobody has enough time with gamejams hehe, if you continue to work on it which I would encourage you to do I would start slowly and let the player get accustomed to a certain task before continuing, accompanied with texts explaining what to do etc :)
all in all a solid entry, you can be proud of yourself, especially because you did it on your own! :O
Pleased to report that this little robot finished it's mission successfully!

Great job! :smile:
If it's the kind of project you were thinking of building on, have my blessing :P It would be neat to play an expanded version!
Overall though a very fun and different game.
The sound design is also reality good.
The only downside is the difficulty of the task, but not impossible. Amazing job !