KAELOS

KAELOS (Project KA) is a light realtime 3x strategy in space (6 months dev time, 2018).

The mission you have is simple: "Colonize" planets.

Example of Winning Conditions:

exploration victory, explore 75% of the planet's surface

exobiology victory, find 3 alien lifeforms

and many more to discover!

Current Features

• all buildings and their functionality
• all units and their extended functionality (both primary and secondary abilities)
• full upgrade system (30 upgrades)
• full mouse and keyboard support (keyboard shortcuts: Enter for Fullscreen, A (fill analyzer), H (build headquarters) etc.)
• cursor interrogation (hover over points of interest and/or middle mouse click on squares/areas) and cursor helpers (e.g. cursor will turn red at an invalid action or green for a valid one plus an additional blueprint-like sprite)
• multiple points of feedback with both valid and invalid actions (e.g flashing triangle led, shaking text, red cursor etc.)
• 2 resources: MC (Metal-Crystal) and HF (Human Factor, which decays as people get old, the in-real-life speed of the game would be very fast)
• once per game, Request Supplies from back home, if you are running out of resources
• violent-free gameplay, no fighting/war/combat
• multiple ways of gathering resources (e.g from unit actions, from buildings, from upgrades)
• one single screen where all the action takes place
• one map with all area types and functionality
• statistics screen at victory
• high replayability via multiple ways to win (and to fail) the map (hint: finish the game once and you will see on the stats screen, other ways you can win the map)
• light realtime 3X gameplay experience (a game would take from 15 minutes up to 45 minutes from start to end)
• consequences of real(Earth) life issues
• wrap-exploring the edges of the map
• basic menu layout (main,pause,retry)
• basic anomaly functionality (when in contact with buildings, resources are being depleted)
• basic back-end analytics (you might get a firewall/network notification from KA)
• easter-eggs/secrets
• bugs...

WIP Graphics

WIP Gameplay

Enjoy and feel free to leave feedback/comments down below.