Planetbase on Steam Greenlight

[tucho]

Hi there, our game Planetbase is on Steam Greenlight. The game is being made by just 5 people; I'm the responsible of all the visuals (except for the UI), from the art direction to the asset creation.

I hope you like it, any vote or help to spread the project is more than welcome

I paste below the content of our Steam Greenlight page. Later on I'll post more stuff on this same thread, as soon as I have a bit of time to set up some pictures of the models, etc.

In the meantime you can find more pictures from this project on our website








Planetbase is a strategy game where you guide a group of space settlers trying to establish an outpost in a remote planet.



In the game you play the role of the base architect and manager, telling your colonists where to build the structures they will need to survive. You will have to ensure that they have an constant supply of oxygen, food and water to stay alive.



You will get them to collect energy, extract water, mine metal, grow food, manufacture bots, and build a fully self-sufficient base.
Even if the game is not intended to be a simulator, all the mechanics are plausible, and based on what the expected challenges of establishing a colony in an new planet would be.

 

• Three different planets with different conditions and increasing difficulty.

 

• Harness solar and wind energy (if available) in order to power the base's structures.
     
• Grow hydroponic Vegetables and synthesize Vitromeat to feed your population.
     
• Mine and produce raw resources, process them, manufacture goods, and establish a production chain.
     
• Carefully manage the colonist immigration flow to ensure you have the people with the right skills.

 

• Survive disasters like meteors, sandstorms or solar flares and defend your base from intruders.
     
• Mechanize your base by manufacturing your own bots that will help with the more arduous tasks.

 

• Grow your colony from a few initial pioneers to a vibrant planetbase with hundreds of colonists.

 

Madruga Works is a studio founded by Martiño Figueroa and Tucho Fernandez, two ex-EA and ex-Ubisoft veterans of the games industry, you can find more info about us at our website

The expected release date for the game is September 2015.

[KorruptkSwades]

Is there any early access version? I would very much like to do a let's play first impression video on youtube. This game interests me ! It picked my curiosity when the video said make a bot army survive disasters. 

[tucho]

Thank you KorruptkSwades, we maybe release the game as early access to get some feedback which allow us to make some bug fixing and polishing in general before the release of the final version; in the meantime you can contact us at contact ‘at’ madrugaworks ‘dot’ com to be added to the betatesting program if you're interested on it.

[Necromatic_Corgi]

Wow this game looks really cool

[tucho]

Thank you xXSly_WolfyXx

Here are some pictures of the models.

One of the character models: the astronaut


 




A W.I.P picture of the biodome components, the models which I'm working on right now.




And one of the ships; this is the smallest one which transports new colonists and visitors to the colony

 


 

[tucho]

Planetbase has been greenlit in just one week

Thank you everyone for your support!!! We are now working flat out to finish the game and release it as soon as possible.

If you want to get updates on the progress you can follow us on Twitter or Facebook or on the new forum in our website.

                  

[tucho]

We will be showing a live demo of the game at the Media Indie Exchange at the SIGGRAPH next week in LA, come around and have a look if you are there!

[BattleByte]

Looks neat I always liked city building games.

[tucho]

Thank you BattleByte

 

I've just finished all the art for the character variations for the game: we have various ethnic and hairstyle versions of every character, which will make colonists more unique and relatable.

This is the last major piece of art left in the game, we are now in the process of finishing some minor things and we will be launching a closed beta very soon.

Anyway I'll post here some more pictures of the existing art, as soon as I have some time to prepare the images.

[tucho]

We are finally ready to start the closed beta for Planetbase later this week. The plan is to stay in beta for about a month and then launch the game (so the estimated launch date is now mid October).

We will be giving away keys for the first 100 mails received, We expect some feedback and bug report if it is the case, and you will receive a copy of the final game when released.

If you are interested in participating please mail us to beta@madrugaworks.com, please include your system specs and also specify if you are fluent in any of: English, Spanish, French or German.

[tucho]

Thank you for so many mails!!! , We've now given out all of the 100 keys for the beta of Planetbase. We might do another round in a couple of weeks.

[VikiDikiRUS]

I think characters looks a little bit fat... No?

Anyway, game looks realy cool.

And what about Russian translate?

[blindcoder]

That looks very interesting indeed. I'll be following it

 

Are there any adversaries in the game next to lack of ressources? Like hostile fauna, other factions, meteor strike (just saw that this is on the greenlight page)?

[Marinus]

This looks interesting, I'll keep an eye on it for sure!

[tucho]

Thanks for your comments guys

 

@VikidiKiRUS: yep the overall proportions are really exagerated and cartoonized, this is because most of the time the player use a top down camera pretty far from the characters, and we found that this proportions work much better with this camera than a realistic ones. 

 

@blindcoder: there are also bandits which will try to rob your base and more natural disasters like sand storms and solar storms

 

We've published the final trailer of Planetbase



Steam page for this game is also done, you can follow the game there; the countdown for the release (Oct 16th) has started

[tucho]

A video showing food production mechanics in the game

[tucho]

After a year of development, Planetbase, the off-world colony builder, is finally out on Steam!!!

[tucho]

We've just released a major update of our game Planetbase, including a new planet, new structures, techs disasters and a lot more, adding more hours of gameplay and taking the game to a whole new level.

Here you can see some pictures of the new planet added, it is the class S planet, the most difficult one in the game, it requires 12 milestones to unlock and in it you will have to deal with constant thunderstorms, erratic energy generation and limited space, offering a proper challenge for the more experienced players.

And also a video of this planet: