Year 2179. Earth is at an end. Humanity was forced to flee and seek shelter in the sky.

The Ark was created, carrying the last survivors. Humanity begun looking for a new home.

Low on supplies, they settled. Barren on the surface, but rich of resources underneath.

A new beginning awaits...

How to play:

  • The Ark (main building) needs oil. If the oil pressure goes down to zero - you lose
  • You can harvest oil by placing pumps on oil deposits (Press 2, then click on the deposit) and connecting them with pipes to the city (Press 3, then click on the pump, then on the city).
  • Two buildings could be connected with pipes if there is nothing between them (pipes can not intersect each other or other nodes). Oil will flow from node with more oil to the node with less. 
  • You can build oil tanks on the free space. They serve as conjunctions and can store small amount of oil in case of emergency.
  • Damaged buildings or buildings in the process of construction are not functional
  • You can upgrade buildings. Every upgrade gives your buildings more HP and also pumps will pump more oil. Main building also can be upgraded. Every upgrade of the main building  gives you opportunity to construct more buildings simultaneously, but it will also consume more oil per second.
  • Your goal is to upgrade The Ark up to the 9th level

Tips

  • You can build simultaneously only small amount of buildings (at start only 1). When you try to place multiple buildings at the same moment, the ones closer to the main building will be constructed first. Buildings are not functional when they are in the process of construction.
  • Buildings can be damaged by various disasters (UFO, asteroids, tornadoes). Damaged buildings are not functional, but they will be repaired automatically in the same order as described in the previous part. 
  • You might want to have multiple ways for oil to flow from every pump to the main building in case when one of the pipes get damage. Also you want to have more pumps, than your main building currently needs because they will eventually get damaged and stop working for some time.
  • Long pipes are easier to get damaged, so it is usually better not to connect far pumps directly to the main building, but to make intermediate oil tanks and connect through them.

Controls:

  • 1 - Selection mode
  • 2 - Node placement mode
  • 3 - Pipe placement mode
  • 4 - Deletion mode
  • 5 - Upgrade mode

Authors:

Game for the Brackeys 2023.1 Game jam

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Favourite game so far, not bad at all. I feel like you could expand on this in many ways, decent.