All pictures and information below have been updated on the 10th of April 2022. All in game art is presently temporary and target to changes.

Elevator pitch :

Animal Crossing on PC, where you play as a lonely robot in space, assembling robot friends while expanding,maintaining and customizing your own space station. With an emphasis on social player-to-player interactions.

General Information :

• Genre : Life Sim
• Age Restriction : Everyone
• Target Platform : PC

Core Pillars :

• Exploration and gathering
• Space station building and customization
• Social interactions with other players

Other :

• Developed on Godot Engine
• Using OpenGL 2
• Made entirely on a Raspberry Pi 4

Plot/Universe :

The game takes place in an alternate 1970s-ish. After landing on the moon, a space age started, sending countless rockets into space to explore what else there was. Eventually humans started to develop human-like robots to be sent on long flights in outer space to make more discoveries.

These robots were very human like and as part of their making process they were to spend time with their assigned human “parent”.

The player plays as one of those robot, sent to the edge of outer space. Now thousands of light years away, after completing it’s original mission, our player start missing their parental figure and being lonely, they then start an incredible journey to try to get back to earth, while assembling their own friends on the way.

Features :

• Customizable space station

  • Create rooms, reshape them, add doors
  • Place furniture down and recolour it
  • Change the floor and wall texture as well as their colours

• Land on celestial bodies (Planets,Asteroids,Moons,Gas Clouds,Comets,etc...)

  • Harvest different resources
  • Take pictures of mysterious life forms
  • Pseudo-Random terrain generation

• Find Cassette Tapes scattered trough space

  • Recordings from earth (Lore)
  • New recipes
  • New Soundtracks

• Build friends

  • Made of different items found during your journey
  • Talk to them and increase your bond
  • Have them make different simple tasks

• Mini-Games

  • Complete various small mini-games when performing different tasks

• Multiplayer - Using a relay server

  • One player can host a lobby
  • Any other player can join their lobby, thus visiting that player station
  • Ability to trade, visit planets together and do different mini-games

• Crafting System

  • Create different materials using elements (water out of hydrogen and oxygen,etc..)

• Based on real life time

  • Each day/week different celestial bodies will be around your station
  • Fuel system prevents from visiting every celestial body at one time
  • Resources/Plants grow and come back at certain intervals

• Community’s ability to submit models/sprites

  • Since the game is going to be online I’ve decided to not make it moddable but instead have an approach similar to rocket league and the like with community made assets.
  • Those would be submit able (via email or something, not sure yet) they would then have to get approved and then added as part of the game.

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Art Style :

The game mixes 3d and 2d. All characters ,some environment element and the ui is made using pixel art sprites. While most of the environment will be built using a lowpoly/voxel style.

One thing to note is that despite the game taking place in a space station, not all the art will be sci-fi inspired, the goal is to allow players to make the space station of their dream. This means we will have all sorts of decor elements, ranging from medieval to sci-fi to present day and even fantasy.

MoodBoard

Gameplay experience :

The gameplay of this game is meant to be relaxing and simple, to be played in small burst daily. Each day the nearby resources will change and players will want to at least open the game to see if something interesting is in range. It also behaves as a virtual aquarium. Something with low maintenance but fun to look at. Customize your station, like it’s a zen garden, look at what your robot friends are doing,take care of your plants,clean up the place,etc...

• Example - Click the arrow to expand.

Game Mechanics in depth :

Writing in progress