Moon Base 99 | Rover Repair, Asteroid, and Saves

Work Continues

I made the drill do something finally. You can buy it for 50 science points and it allows you to repair the rover. The rover can now be damaged by falling meteors. After testing it a whole bunch it doesn't always break the rover every meteor shower, just if your unlucky. Which is kind of how I want it. I had to rework the price of the other upgrades. I might still need to change it, cause there is a definite best way to play it. I would need a bunch of people testing it to know how to design the progression properly. So I just need to pick something and go with it.

I've added an  "asteroid" to the game. On the second meteor shower a big meteor crashes into the moon. You can then send an astronaut to investigate the rock. You can then research the asteroid for extra science points. I want it to have it unlock something or something. I added a blinking sprite to be like a green glow coming from the asteroid. Here is a spot where I could use a shader, or maybe a light2d node.

I've started making a save/load system. This is way harder then I anticipated. You need to save every characters position, stats, ect for everything in the game, then have code that rebuilds the state of the game. I thought it was going to be impossible, but I some how made it halfway work with help from GPT4. I think most people who are going to play it are going to be playing in a browser and probably only once, but I'm already this far.  I've never made a save system before so I might as well figure that one out. 

I'm really liking how the game is turning out. I think the music takes it to another level. It feels like a piece of art now. I have played the game for hours and still find it entertaining, and chill. The only problem is marketing the thing. I need to worry about that later and keep my head down and work to make it as good as possible and all that. The game is still not published, I need to add an ending before I do that, but you can try it here:

 https://jhyde.itch.io/moon-base-99 the password is: Kubrick

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