Tempest Voyager
Tempest Voyager
Pilot a small starship, traversing the galaxy to collect resources and knowledge necessary to protect your homeworld from energy storms.
Research technologies to enhance your spacecraft, construct laboratories and mines to produce resources, and investigate anomalies to unlock game-changing effects.
Movement: WASD or arrow keys/numpad
Skip turn: space or numpad 5
Buttons: 1-5 or mouse
Game Menu: M
Exit Menus: Esc
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Thanks a lot for your review and the colossal work you are doing for the RL community!
I enjoyed this game a lot, please keep working on it. I'd like to offer some suggestions to improve it:
1. Add a key/legend to explain the on-screen symbols. Please make it clearer how mines and research labs work.
2. Could research & build menus be permanently on screen?
3. Needs some explanation for each option on the research screen.
4. I got to a point where under the research menu I had: starline, Homeworld shield project and Energy Upgrade 3 were shown greyed out with numbers in square brackets beside them (what do they mean?). No matter which square I went to, none of the options were available - is this a bug? I then had to give up.
5. It needs a hover over / peek ahead type option, currently you just have to blindly enter a square without knowing anything about it.
6. Solar panels shown on the ship, but they don't generate energy ;-)
Fun, short little game.
I like the Windows 95 style on this. Makes me feel like I'm playing a really old game, in a good way. It could use a sound or two... like a "click" sound on the buttons.
I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but I really hate those pylons. Nothing good EVER came out of a pylon, at least not for me. Also, I wormholed to a spot that trapped me in one playthrough and was forced to rage-quit!
Thanks a lot for your feedback! I wish to add sounds some day, but I have no experience with it and haven't been able to do this in 7-day gamejam.
Pylons deal some heavy damage, but they lead to one of the possible endings if you have enough health to open them. Wormholes can be risky, but I believed that suits well the early 90's games theme =)