My entry is a little strategy game featured a tech tree (like in civ) with ultimate technology to save the universe.
When I was submitting, I realized that the game is too complicated to understand… (One drawback for solos) .
So I decided to write a story to explain the background.
Please note that currently the game is only roughly completed, there is too much to improve. And I hadn’t the time to actually put the big tech tree (designed for two days) into the game.
There will be a updated version.
LINK TO MY ENTRY.
God’s Gift
4000 BC
The player stands in the desert, waiting.
Before him, the giant structure casts a shadow that covers a thousand men. There were the people that lived along the river. Now for the first time, they gathered around this giant structure.
Their king ordered the men to open this structure that had been there for thousands of years.
The men, thousands of them, pulled the ropes that ties up to a heavy stone. Then, someone shouted a commend, and they all let go. The heavy stone crashed on a larger brick of the pyramid. The latter hold still, but they repeated, until the wall of the pyramid gave in. The first slave run inside and returned, carrying a piece of flat and transparent stone.
“Optics.” The player mustered to himself.
As a player, he can see all and know all, in a trade, no one else can see or know him.
Another slave carried a jar. He stutted and fell, and everybody around was frightened by the black viscous liquid that spurred out.
The last findings was just a handful of seeds. The kings hold the seeds in both his hands, with the rest of people on their knees, claimed that these were God’s Gift.
The player left before the ritual ended.
AC 1134
The spacesuit was designed in a different fashion to the memory of the player.
The first rocket had failed and killed its first female astronaut. But human never gave up.
The radio was not very stable, so the latter part of the landing mission was under the command of the captain.
The space craft looked very tiny against the pyramid on the moon.
But the reversal thrusting was calculated without the account of such a structure…
The player worry a bit when the craft crashed.
But after a while, the captain, in his space suit, get off and found himself standing before the entrance of a ancient pyramid structure.
The man start talking on the radio, forgetting the fact that no one but only the Player could hear him.
Yet, the player cannot understand Arabic.
AC 1798
Cain-788901 vonlunteered on this sun-landing mission.
The plan was to shoot their capusule into the sun and then the capusule will operate like a submarine and dock into the pyramid.
Unmanned missions had yield success several times and located the pyramid floating about 300k miles from the core.
The artifacts found on the moon has speed up the technology development for hundreds of years.
And also the pyramid is the ultimate mystery for human.
So the signal from within the sun is distinguished, they immidiantly started the sun project.
The player float above the ocean of eternal flames. Waiting for the capsule to shoot from a giant spaceship.
The capasule is built with vacum materail to keep off the heat conduction and coated with invisible shield against radiation.
Even the player can not see the invisible capasule. Instead, he was facing the sun and then, he saw the disturbance pattern the capasule left on the surface when it passed.
It is beautiful.
AC 2016
6000 years were not very long for the player, yet still, he felt very tired, from frustration.
Before him, the last science committee conference was being hold, as the ending time is soon.
The player sit in a chair that belongs to the god. In this universe, there had been a ritual to spare one more chair for the ultimate observer in any scientific meeting.
“The condensing speed is faster than we had expected.” The chairman spoke directly to mind of everyone seated.
He then “talked” some complex data models though this brainwave communication.
“Among the seven planets, earth will be the second to be destroyed. The last planet will have extra 0.13 seconds of time.”
Another mind talked, “The research on the pyramid draws one conclusion that could be helpful. ”
“The foamton field could protect the pyramid and things within.”
“We had talked about it before. What good will some objects do when all observer has diminished?”
“There is one possibility that they could be opened by another human civilization in another but same universe.”
“Go on.”
“If we put some items that could be helpful to them on the technology….”
“Then maybe they have a chance to accumulate enough technology to find the Ultimate theory?”
“Now, suggestions for the items? PhotonStick? A book?”
“We must plan this on a technology tree or sth.”
The player watched as they shield the gate again. There wasn’t any time left before the condensing.
The human and earth, the stars, everything swallowed by the instant whiteness.
Only the pyramid and the player stands, in the middle of nothing.
One singularity exploded, then another, then all of them.
The time came into being. The foam gradually formed.
The sun was born and then earth.
And finally, the sand filled under the feet of the player until there were desert again.
Not far way from him, a stream is growing to a river.
Patiently, he waits.
It was my first Ludum Dare and overall great experience!
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