Today, my class and I played the new(ish) game, Planetbase. In this game, you rule a colony on another planet, and you try to control as much as possible to keep everyone alive, yet also keep your resources in check.
I will be guiding you through the tutorial of which I took myself (or at least the essentials of said tutorial) as efficiently as possible, as well as explaining my current thoughts on the game.
The first thing that happens is I land on the planet.
I then go into this menu, labelled "interior structures", found in the top left corner:
And then I click this in order to build an Oxygen Generator:
I place it down, as shown below:
I then go into the exterior structures menu, found directly next to the menu I opened before, and I build this a solar panel, as shown below:
While the above don't look like much, this is what they look like finished:
So once they're all finished, I click on both of my structures.
I then click the link option, causing the two to join together.
Once that's done, I build myself a Water Extractor, found in the exterior structures menu.
I then place it next to the solar panel, and join the two together.
I build myself an airlock, found again in the interior structures menu,
and I proceed to link it to my oxygen generator.
Now that I have a source of oxygen and power, I need food. So, I go into the interior structures menu, and I make myself a canteen.
I then place it next to my oxygen generator, as it is my only other interior structure (other than my airlock, which I believe can only have one thing indoor linking to it), and I link the two together.
However, at the moment, my canteen is worthless. I click on this option, which allows me to edit my structures. I can use this to put down a table, a water fountain (powered by my water extractor), and a television for entertainment.
I then build a dorm, once again, found in interior structures.
It's not really important where it links, although I choose the canteen for efficiency (wake up, go next door, have breakfast, go to work, have lunch, do more work, have dinner, go to bed).
I find this game to be quite enjoyable, and I am looking forward to taking a much deeper look into it tomorrow. However, while the gameplay seems quite addictive (actually similar to SimCity), the graphics could use a little more effort. It's 2015, and I've seen games from 2010 looking better than this.
You are one of these colonists (who really knows which one, probably the fat guy in the boss chair). From what I can gather, you build buildings to provide your crew with oxygen, food, and energy in order to keep them alive.
Your crew consists of (in order in the image below) workers, biologists, engineers, medics, guards, carrier bots, constructor bots, and driller bots.
