High Tech Survival - 7drl 2015 - Success?

[Xecutor]

On the last day of challenge motherboard of my PC was struck with a thought - "Damn, it's 3 weeks till the end of the warranty. And I wasn't repaired/replaced even once!"
In service they said that I can take it back on next day. On next day it was next day again. And again. And only today I've got it back.
I decided not to announce success/failure before I checked that hard drive is ok.

Download link 1: https://sites.google.com/site/tetrogue/downloads/7drl-2015---high-tech-survival


Why question mark in the subject? Well... I had to cut a lot of features. Why still 'success'? It was quite big list of features, and looking
back I'm quite happy with what was implemented.

So, the game.

In this game you play as space maitenance engineer who
managaed to screw coordinates for hyper jump and ended
up in the atmosphere on an unknown planet.
Automatics prevented destruction of the ship,
but titanium plating was badly damaged and most of the
fuel of reactor was burned during emergency landing.
Luckily computer managed to find a spot where materials
required for repairs and refuling are not too far.
With your advanced engineering space suite you can survive!

Idea:
The idea was to generate some randomized environment where you have to survive.
Temperature, oxygen, satiation and hydration are all tracked and must be maintained.
Depending on environment and conditions different strategies must be used.
Different types of temporary energy generation, food, water and oxygen sources...

What was implemented:

• virtually unlimited terrain with generation on demand
• day/night cycle
• global/local light with tinting, like colors are a little reddish on sunrise and purplish on sunset.
• tracking of temperature and oxygen in enclosed rooms
• power cables and pipes connections
• crafting with different machines
• you can die from many different things
• you can win

What went wrong:

• not enough time
• logical errors in original design document. I wasn't able to find workaround quickly
• I started with little things. When I reached complex things I had lots of half-assed solutions that weren't good enough for complex things...
• as a result of previous point there are some things that have no use in the game. Like manual pump and barrel. But no liquids to use them with.
• because of broken PC the game lacks some final polish and balancing. Well. it's completely unbalanced. On easier side though.

Result? Can't say it's very interesting... But there is quite complex simulation to look at.
For example all devices in the ship are connected to electric grid and consuming power.
Reactor fuel feed is connected with reactor core and fuel rods are 'fairly' transferred there.

p.s. Inspired by Factorio and techical mods for MC, and crashlanding modpack

p.p.s. Like my 7drl 2014, this game is mostly written in Zorro programming that I created and working on.
You can look into source code in game subfolder.
.exe file is just a scripting host that exposes pseudo-console api, 'Map' class and some other utilities.
This week gave me quite big backlog of bugs to fix

[Xecutor]

It was really bad idea to write the post above while falling asleep.
Quite a mess...

I realised, that the game do not advertise 'h' key, which is 'help', where all other keys are listed.
Also superuseful keys combination: shift-b is missing in help. shift-b is batch building.
Good for laying cables and pipes over long distances.

A little bit of instruction:
Dealing with automatic machines might be not so trivial.
You need item servo to pull or push items from or into machine.
Very basic construct for mining is like this: 'V$]'
where:
  V is mining drill
  $ is item servo
  ] is crate
Hm. In theory you can smelt it right away: 'V$S'! (S is smelter)
However, don't forget to 'c'onfigure and turn on servo.
If something is not working bumping into servo will tell you it's status.

So, craft mining drill, electric smelter, item servo, crate and a few power cables.
Pick water and food, one (or two?) battery and go search for iron. Don't forget to use suite's scanning power!
About item servo and item pipes. Servo is able to connect one source and one destination.
So this combination is possible:

Code: [Select]

V$=\
V$===[
V$=/
Pull items from 3 different machines and put them all into one crate
But this way won't work the same way:

Code: [Select]

V==\
V===$[
V==/
Only from one (closest) machine items will be pulled.

I'll release a little more balanced and fixed version a little later. There are so many exploits in this version
I added dismantling right before my sudden end of development and haven't tested it much.
But it looks like it is possible to dismantle and rebuild whole ship

p.s. A-ha... I remember now what I started doing, but haven't finished. Inventory limits... atm they are unlimited. Which, once again, breaks balance. Can you break something that is already broken?

[Avagart]

Can you tell me how and where I can download your game? After pushing 'download' button in your google  disc Error 415 (Not Found)!!1 appears. ("The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.").

[Xecutor]

Can you tell me how and where I can download your game? After pushing 'download' button in your google  disc Error 415 (Not Found)!!1 appears. ("The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.").

That's very strange. I updated original post with link, but it is the same as in 7drl page. I tried to open it in the browser where I'm not logged into google and it opens up ok.
Probably some kind of problem with lot's of dashes in the url...

[Samildanach]

Can you tell me how and where I can download your game? After pushing 'download' button in your google  disc Error 415 (Not Found)!!1 appears. ("The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.").

Same here.

[Xecutor]

I added alternative download link. Sorry about that. Had no problems with google before.

[Avagart]

Mirror works, I'll test HTS later Thanks.

[akeley]

This is truly awesome. It`d be criminal to abandon such a grand project...so please don`t ;)

CTD when I tried to pick up the freezer.

[Xecutor]

I uploaded a little bugfix/reballance version.
 - fixed crash on freezer pickup (actually freezer is not working )
 - increased body cooling when it's cold
 - fixed inability to build when fatigue >50
 - mines are mining slower

Google should work now. It wasn't page. It was download that wasn't working. I reuploaded and now it seems to work.

[Samildanach]

So, craft mining drill, electric smelter, item servo, crate and a few power cables.
Pick water and food, one (or two?) battery and go search for iron. Don't forget to use suite's scanning power!

Questions:

1) You seem to be saying that I craft that stuff first, before going outside? I don't have any stuff to craft with.

2) What scanning power? I've scoured everything I can see but can't find anything with scanning power.

EDIT: Ok, I've found the scan function. No idea where to find food or water though. I've tried everything I can think of. This game is really impenetrable.

[AquaTsar17]

Yeah, some more instructions would help but the note above about the machines is pretty important too. You also need to connect a power source to the drill (a battery worked for me).

There is food in the fridges (the = in the north-east room) and there are ores in the room with all the construction devices (the = are storage closets in that room). You need to take those first and then use them to make all the other stuff.

I'm not sure how you get more food and water though, or if that's possible yet.

[Xecutor]

So, craft mining drill, electric smelter, item servo, crate and a few power cables.
Pick water and food, one (or two?) battery and go search for iron. Don't forget to use suite's scanning power!

Questions:

1) You seem to be saying that I craft that stuff first, before going outside? I don't have any stuff to craft with.

2) What scanning power? I've scoured everything I can see but can't find anything with scanning power.

EDIT: Ok, I've found the scan function. No idea where to find food or water though. I've tried everything I can think of. This game is really impenetrable.

I'm sorry, but I somehow missed your post
It's a roguelike! Peek and poke around
AquaTsar17 answered your questions.

I'm not sure how you get more food and water though, or if that's possible yet.

In current version it is impossible to get more food or water.