Deeper Space

Entry for the Ludum Dare 48.

You have been sent on a mission: to go as deep in space as possible.

Unfortunately, your ship is rusty, old, and not really fit for the mission. You’ll have to do your best to get as far as possible without the ship exploding, running out of oxygen, or just running out of energy.

Interact with the ship and its many systems until both of you are able to just go deeper and deeper!

Game concept

The idea of Deeper Space is to provide you a big ship, with lots of hidden systems, triggers and secrets. You don’t really have any knowledge or tips about your ship, so you will have to find out how to sort out all the multiple problems you will find on your mission.

We designed the ship and the concept to reward replayability and optimization, given that there are multiple events that will make it harder to survive the longer you go on. There is also a random component, giving every game a different set of challenges by throwing different events at different times. This also makes a “Challenge of the Day” mode possible, sharing a same timeline of events and allowing you to repeat the same level over and over to find the best strategy.

You will also eventually find lots of secrets, like shortcuts, helpers and lore.

The current build

This has been our first Game Jam together! None of us do really have any background in game development, as we are mostly 3 enterprise software developers, a frontend designer and a graphic designer.

This means, unfortunately, that the current build is just a navigable ship, with access to one minigame, and no way to actually start the game.

We’re actually really proud that we have a decent prototype, where we could test minigames, the scoring system, menus and GUI!

Controls:
WASD to move
E to interact and do actions