Shiplex: Colony Reboot

As a Task robot you are tasked to rebuild is a small sim made in Pico8 for the Cre8-Jam

Story:

You have been put online by a rather old deployment system, named "Compy", to aid in the building of a new settlement. Gather resources, explore, build quality of life items for residents as they move in. Preform upgrades to self to aid in the completion of tasks. With ruins to explore you will wonder were they come from, are her true motives as cheery as her demeaner.

UPDATE: playable, fun,  but not feature complete. INV error on save start, is a bad save, delete when on start screen should work.

NOTE: NO auto-saving yet, save from menu, sorry.

Controls: 

• Arrow Keys for Movement (Controller preferred)
• X:  Action
• C: Open Inventory/ Cancel
• Menu gives option to save game,
  • Teleport to Factory - FYI, there are no borders :) you can get painfully far away
  • Save Game (no auto-saving yet)
  • Delete Game

Features:

• Mobile friendly - play in browser
• Open world Farming sim

Guide:

• There is the main starting tasks that unlock the tool you will use to rebuild
• Once those are complete its an open world,  free to explore. you may build sign posts to gain and complete tasks. If you build far from  factory.
• Crates are a good source of seeds
• Bushes can be planted  in tilled soil, once harvested can be chopped for wood.
• Caves are a good source of stone when surface is depleted, but dangerous.
• Using a seed maker consumes an item, Interact with it while having the seeds you want to make  selected (may improve later)

Sign Post	Seed Maker	Compy
	Crates Contain Seeds	Base

Development story:

It started  with a 'simple' noise function as my second project in pico8 for the pico-1k challenge. It was a nice challenge for myself since I had only worked with pico8 for the first and last time during that last jam.  Then on my not so continuous game journey in other  engines. (mainly Godot) I found myself back for another go.

With an idea of a open world type game involving robots, I thought of a terraforming game, with that I spent a few hours testing the idea. With that, a second jam turned into a third,  an open world map  which then required supporting functions for cameras, map edits,  smoothing player movement, etc... 

I spent some time a little bit here and there, trying for big pushes, hoping  I had something playable for cre8-jam, the 'thing' you found here.

Pico8 had some learning curves. There so many people out there that share there creations. One regret I have is not really looking in to them, as I kept my head down chipping away any bugs I came across. I'm sure there are WAY better ways to solve some of the hurdles, but from  the few I did find and was able to gain valuable knowledge from, you have my many thanks.

Pico8 is a great tool to gain a lot of important lessons from. really getting into the how-to of game development. I will bring forward this experience into other projects as I continue making strides in game development. To all the giants whos shoulders I got to stand on, I don't think I could have finished this with out the inspiration.

hope you enjoy.

:to the giants:

music by: snabisch -amazing work

load/save by: dw817 -thanks for amazing work

dialog based on type boxes by: profpatonildo -thanks for making it simple

overlays inspired by: dev quest -thanks for the concept

:special thanks to:

My wife Mae -for supporting this effort 

Paul nicholas (liquiddream) - for starting me on this journey

Nerdy teachers -for the knowledge base that help to understand pico-8 

and the cre8-jam team  -for providing the platform to start this game