Icarus

The game is set in the far future where our star, having exhausted all of it's hydrogen reserves, begins to turn into a red giant and engulf the inner planets. Harvest moons for metal and fuel, evacuate as many planets as you can and try to help humanity escape their dying sun.

Objectives

The aim of the game is to evacuate the colonised inner planets to the safer outer planets, with the ultimate aim to build an interstellar colony ship. You can build Deuterium and Metal Mines on moons in order to gain the resources required to build ships and buildings on the planets.

Buildings / Ships

• Deuterium / Metal Mine - Mines for Deuterium / Metal

• Small / Large Colony Ship - Used for transporting people to other planets

• Terraforming - Used to Make the colder outer planets more habitable - Increases population growth rate.

• Solar Mirrors - Slows population loss from the effects of solar radiation.

• Fusion Inhibitor - Temporarily stops the sun from expanding

• Lunar Colonisation - Colonised the closest moon to the planet, allowing mines to be built on Moons.

• Solar Collectors - Increases mining rate on moons. Mining rate increases as the solar intensity increases.

• Interstellar Colony Ship - Allows you to transport the human populace to a new star system.

Controls

• WASD / Mouse - to scroll

• Mouse Wheel - Zoom in and out

• Left Mouse Button - Select moons, planets and ships.

• Right Mouse Button - Move selected ship to another planet and cancel construction.

• H - Recenter view

• F1 - Show Help

• F2 - Change anti-aliasing settings

Made in 7 days for Ludum Dare, 7DRTS.

Music

• All This by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

• Dark Dance by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

• Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

• Clean Soul by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

• Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

Thanks to Куликов Дмитрий for the Russian translation.

System Requirements

• Windows Vista, 7 or 8

• 512MB RAM

• 128MB graphics

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