Icarus
A downloadable game for Windows
The game is set in the far future where our star, having exhausted all of it's hydrogen reserves, begins to turn into a red giant and engulf the inner planets. Harvest moons for metal and fuel, evacuate as many planets as you can and try to help humanity escape their dying sun.
This is an expanded version of the original game made in 7 days for 7DRTS.
Objectives
The aim of the game is to evacuate the colonised inner planets to the safer outer planets, with the ultimate aim to build an interstellar colony ship. You can build Deuterium and Metal Mines on moons in order to gain the resources required to build ships and buildings on the planets.
Buildings / Ships
- Deuterium / Metal Mine - Mines for Deuterium / Metal
- Small / Large Colony Ship - Used for transporting people to other planets
- Terraforming - Used to Make the colder outer planets more habitable.
- Solar Mirrors - Slows population loss from the effects of solar radiation.
- Fusion Inhibitor - Temporarily stops the sun from expanding
- Interstellar Colony Ship - Allows you to transport the human populace to a new star system.
Music
- All This by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)
- Dark Dance by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)
- Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)
- Clean Soul by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)
- Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)
Thanks to Куликов Дмитрий for the Russian translation.
New version in development - http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=35290.0.
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I love this! To be consumed with great purpose... I'm sure that's what the poor people on Icarus were thinking as I sent off a single small ship to start off the game.
I ended up saving almost everyone (ended with 7.29B) with a ton of fusion inhibitors (thanks @Gnorshk).
I was able to evacuate everyone from Kelvin and kept Earth alive by rushing lunar colonization/solar reflector/1 large colony ship, then spamming inhibitors until my second colony was established. very much a hidden gem.
Saved 873m civilians I am very grateful
is there a way to stop the escape key from ending the game? I keep subconsciously trying to pause and i end up erasing thirty minutes of progress i want death lol
Диман, машина!
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*cant screenshot in pc*
managed to spam the sun with fusion inhibitors so hard that it shrank and nearly froze earth while i evacuated it. 8.5 billion people survived (it was a long game).
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I tried to do the same but couldn't save earth but I think I did something equally awesome lol (can't upload multiple images apparently? guess I'll do it over multiple comments)
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This game is so amazing! The only thing that I could suggest is making it so that we could actually save most of Earth's populace instead of having over 6 billion people die each game
But I'd give this a supernova/5 stars!
This is one intense game. Only 102 million survived...
WOW! You are just Amazing coming up with a game like this in 7 days! There are AAA game companies that don't make a good suspensful game like you made and you also did it in 7 days!!!! I wish you could of expanded on this game if you got a game company to go in with you make this game with better graphics and when you view the planet you zero in to the surface to see all the people working to get off the planets, you can have different beings on different planets If you slowed the sun progress you could add like multiplayer where you can build a weapon to sabatoge your neighbor and if they dont work together they are both doomed. So much you can do with this I wish you the best of luck! Thank you for such a great little game! I hope one day you decide to come back to this and expand on it people would buy it!!! Take care!
This was beautiful makes we wish I could play some more :)
I only managed to save 350 million people out of the billions I start off with. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten :'(
Part of me wants to download the code and see if I can make it so you can keep playing in that new solar system and have the sun start to expand after a few minutes
Amassing game, could extend and start something that could be a lot more in depth
I can't move the ships.
Right click on the planets. Don't right click on the moons, I made that mistake.
what happens if you right click on a moon?
Wow, I guess I'm a couple years late to the party, but this is a very beautiful, compelling game that desperately yearns for an expanded version. Can I give someone money to do that? Here, take it.
Wish this was still in development.
Cool game.
THIS GAME IS PAV?
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :).
A great suspenseful game. Really enjoyed it :D