Colony by Arscene
Colony is a realtime colony builder card game.


Your goal is to maintain and expand a colony of tiny creatures using cards.
Controls:
Drag: Move the camera
Mouse wheel: Zoom in/out
Drag cards: Move cards around
Space: Pause / unpause
F: Fast forward / normal speed
How to play:
Each card can be either an Egg, Creature, Food, Location or Effect
Drag cards in Verb slots of corresponding type
Once a verb is full, it will take action after an indicated amount of time
Don't forget that you can pause the time using space
Buy new verbs using eggs
Tips:
If you want to understand how the game works by yourself stop your reading there
Creatures will be exhausted after 3 verbs
The pause button is really helpful, use it !
LAYing eggs is exhausting
EAT removes the starving status, it does not do anything else
Creatures can eat FOOD and EGGs
The pause button is really helpful, use it !
Creatures who are exhausted need to LAY
Creatures who are exhausted will die after 3 verbs
The pause button is really helpful, use it !
Creatures with a status take more time to scavenge and explore
If you want to take a card out of a verb use the green X button at the top right of the verb
Tools used:
Game: Unity 2022.3.49f1
Code: JetBrains Rider 2024.1.2
"Art": Figma
Font used: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto
You can find everything I made in the links below, even a log of my work.
Bug found: - Stacking cards in a slot will break the game (the card becomes stuck inside the slot) :(
Ratings
| Overall | 128th | 3.63⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 157th | 3.391⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 71th | 3.804⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 267th | 3.043⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 193th | 3.413⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 23🗨️ |

Anyway a very cool entry!

Amazing game, I spent literally the whole evening playing it! It is like any base-building game stripped to the barebone mechanic, totally love the concept and visuals.
Overall, a great game concept and executed very well, I think I'm just bad at it :joy: