A downloadable game for Windows

I am in the very early prototyping stages, but the basic idea is to make an incremental (clicker) game based around the idea of surviving, settling, colonizing the red planet Mars.

I'm building this using the Cortex Engine, which I am also building, which is a TypeScript game engine I'm creating mostly from scratch.

To try this out, just download the zip, extract it, and run mars.exe. Should work on any modern Windows system, let me know if you have any issues.

Your game is saved automatically all the time, so you can just close the game whenever, and when you launch it again later it should seamlessly start back where you left off.

Note that right now the game will create a .cortex-data directory wherever the mars.exe lives. You can look in there and there is a mars.json which is the save file. So if you edit that, you can cheat at the game ;)

All feedback welcome, I hope to add many engaging features to this, beyond the basic "want to see number go up" core of incremental gaming loop.

Updated 1 day ago
Published 18 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows
Authornucleonic
GenreSimulation
Tags2D, Incremental, Space
AI DisclosureAI Assisted, Code

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mars-v0.0.1.zip 5.3 MB

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The code execution cannot proceed because libwinpthread-1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

Sorry about that! I've uploaded a new version that should solve this for you (mars-v0.0.1.zip).