Entroper - Planet devouring prototype

[Walter Druck]

Here's a little something I've been working on, only got to a first playable prototype so far, but I wanted to show this off a bit:



You play as an energy-based lifeform – the Entroper – that leeches various forms of energy from entire planets. Goal is to gather enough bio energy to be able to leave the current star cluster, the levels of this game. You may also choose to convert planetary energy into weapons. These you will need to defeat the other hostile lifeforms with which you compete for the planetary resources.

The base types of energy that every planet provides in variing amounts are biotic energy (health), photonic energy (basic ammo) and kinetic energy (booster fuel). Your goal is to gather energy but combat and self defense require you to spend it strategicly for weapon production and protective measures.

Besides the black hole-type moloch in the video I also want hunters that chase the player through the star cluster and drive him forward. Also, as the game is ment to play in geological time scales, I’d like to include cosmolgical events, like sunstorms or supernovae, that might even be triggered by the player as a weapon.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, it's a fairly spontaneous design and more than anything I'm trying to do something new here, but I'm not sure how well pacing and gameflow are really going to work out.

[JensenR30]

Damn. This looks really inventive and cool! I wish you had something that I could play up on the net!
"Release Early, Release Often".
Also, your website looks nice

[Walter Druck]

hey thanks alot! that does indeed motivate me to publish a playable level

next weekend is ludum dare, but after that I hope to find some more time to spend with this and throw a level together

[JensenR30]

hey thanks alot! that does indeed motivate me to publish a playable level

next weekend is ludum dare, but after that I hope to find some more time to spend with this and throw a level together

I'm looking forward to it!