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Gameplay

Synopsis

The Planetologist is a pixel art local multiplayer coop top-down shooter game. You take on the role of a daring scientist equipped with a portable scanner and laboratory. Your mission is to travel through diverse and perilous planets in your trusty spaceship, gathering invaluable data from the far reaches of the galaxy.

Story

As a Planetologist or planetary ecologist, your mission involves traveling to various planets, studying their diverse ecosystems and documenting your discoveries. Upon reaching your current destination, you encounter what seems to be some kind of pathogen that can infect all forms of life and somehow spread to other planets light-years away.

You realize that, by scanning this planet with one of your devices, you can trace the planet that infected this one. After some calculations, you estimate that the main source of the infection should be ten planets away. The universe's only hope now is to locate and eradicate this infection at its source.

Main Features

• 3 different game modes (Story, Survival and Extraction)... but maybe more!
  
• 10 unlockable worlds with stunning backgrounds and immersive environments.
  
• Level design based on each world's unique size, gravity, biome and atmosphere.
• Procedurally generated world layouts, ensuring a fresh experience on each visit.
• 12 unlockable characters, each with unique playstyles and abilities.
• Character leveling system with 17 different skills. 
• 12 unlockable robot companions to add utility, support or raw firepower to your party.
• 3 unlockable ships for you to buy, upgrade and equip with special power-ups and weapons.
• Local coop multiplayer up to 12 players... if you find a way to hook up that many controllers!
  
• Steam achievements.
• Based on pixel art by Penusbmic and other awesome artists.

Game Modes

Story mode

Find the origin of the cosmic infection that's consuming civilizations and worlds. Scan infected planets to locate hives, abandoned equipment, bosses and other survivors to join your party. Buy ships and equipment to trace the infection to its very core and eradicate it from the universe.

Estimated play time: 14 hours to complete all 4 scan missions in all 10 worlds and a lot more to satisfy your greed for experience and equipment.

Survival Endless

Your ship failed on you and your only alternative is to get beamed down to the closest planet and survive as long as possible while battling infected critters... just for fun. I mean, you know you're doomed anyway, right?

Estimated play time: Depends a lot on your thirst for experience and brutal carnage.

Survival Extraction

Same as Survival Endless, except someone might actually bother to rescue you. The only caveat is you need to be at the right place at the right time or else your galactic-uber might rather "take another trip".

Estimated play time: 5 hours to complete all worlds with a single character. 60 hours to complete all worlds with all characters.

Art Samples

Characters

Companions

Ships

Worlds

EnemiesStatus

Feature	Demo	Early Access	Full Release
Max Players	1	1	12
Story Mode	No	No	Yes
Endless Survival Mode	Yes	Yes	Yes
Extraction Survival Mode	No	No	Yes
Characters	1	1	12
Companions	0	0	12
Ships	0	0	3
Ship Specials	0	0	TBD
Worlds	1	1	10
Enemies	6	6	65 (aprox)
Bosses	0	0	4

We don't want to promise anything because we've been working on this project for over a year now, and if there's one thing experience has taught us, it's that things in game development don't always happen within the estimated timeframe. However, we do want to share our ambitious aspirations regarding the progress of the game's development and the number of features we plan to release monthly. 

Let us dream =)

Credits

Game by

• James Chapp Fillmore
  
• Guillermo Ares
  

Engineering by

• Guillermo Ares
  

Art by

• Penusbmic 
• Ansimuz 
• Deep-Fold 
• CraftPix.net
• James Chapp Fillmore

Music by

• Fernando Núñez Izu 

Made with GameMaker

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