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Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books

https://underhillgame.com/
28•ariaalam•2h ago

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ariaalam•2h ago
I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into factions: Greens who want to terraform and Reds who want to preserve Mars.

There’s Chill Mode for players that just want to build & hang, and Conflict Mode that introduces the Red v. Green factions. Reds sabotage, the terrain slowly turns green as the world gets more terraformed.

Feedback welcome, especially on performance and gameplay!

pmontra•51m ago
I visited the site on my Android phone with Firefox. It loads and the UI fits the screen, however it seems slow. Words appear at 3 or 4 characters at a time, then there is a pause, then another 3 or 4 characters. Some music when characters appear, then it stops, then it starts again. I muted it soon.

It looks nice, so I hope to give it a try from my laptop. The Mars trilogy was a great read. When I saw the title of this Show HN I said, oh wow!

By the way, dust storms could be a plot device but are they really that bad with so low air pressure?

ariaalam•9m ago
Thanks for giving it a click! Let me know how it goes on desktop. Actively trying to improve the phone experience now...
captn3m0•5m ago
Got power water and o2 but can’t seem to scroll the list of items to build for food on Firefox/iOS (should also be Safari/iOS) since it selects on tap before the scroll.
ariaalam•2m ago
Another person just mentioned this to me, looking into it.
magicmicah85•23m ago
Played for a bit, liked the aesthetics so I bookmarked it to come back to it later and discovered a bug. On mac/chrome, I hit CMD + D to bookmark. By doing so, I setup some kind of autowalk bug where I kept walking to the right. I couldn't stop myself from walking, even pressing WAS temporarily stopped me but as soon as I let go, I kept walking right.
ariaalam•8m ago
Thanks for this, I'll address it now.
deafpolygon•21m ago
It’s not really clear how it’s played.
ariaalam•8m ago
Thanks for trying it out. Can you say more? Was it the controls or more about what you're supposed to build/do first?
number6•8m ago
Great, how did you build it? Also I have to read the books
xcf_seetan•3m ago
I am on Firefox and it does nothing, no movement, just flashing resource monitors with zero values...

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