The Kepler Colony: Induction (November 30 update - Demo 30k words)

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In 2115, an asteroid collided with Earth killing 99% of life on the planet. The few remaining beings died out soon after. Humanity on Earth was gone.

Shortly before the event, many nations sent out huge spaceships to distant stars to prolong humanity and preserve life. All had the aim of starting fresh on a new planet. Many failed with the perils of space a temultuous place to be.

Your nation is one of the few to successfully bridge the void and after a long journey through space, you are now approaching your new home, Kepler 62e. Your journey begins as you near the planetā€¦

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This is the sequel to The Kepler Colony: Evacuation

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-Play as you arrive at Kepler 62e.

As one of the few chosen to lead your country on this new chapter in human history, you have the chance to put your footprint on the planet.

-Build up your character.

Your gender, your choice. Make difficult decisions that will shape your future, as well as your nation.

-Create a city.

Over a span of 20 years and covering 80 seasons, forge a city for the future of your people.

-Overcome dilemmas.

Deal with friendly and hostile people. Did you really think only your nation were headed to the planet?

-Romance is afoot.

With several potential love interests.

-Your country, your way.

Play from a myriad of nations. If your country isnā€™t a default option, add it in!

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Demo:

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Yes, itā€™s true itā€™s been a few years since the first installment. What do you mean over 7 years?
I donā€™t promise to be fast with this. At present it is fully planned out but only 10k in writing on the page. I am working on a demo, but my priority is getting the engine up and running. Itā€™s going to take me some time so please be patient there. This announcement is my commitment to the project. While you wait kindly for me to get around to making a proper demo, I have prepared a different sort of treat for you. Put on earphones, sit back and listen.

The Days Before

This is a song from one of the few people who was lucky enough to get a place on the spaceship you sent to Kepler 62e.

Lyrics:
I remember the days before the asteroid came.
Driving down streets without a care in the world.
You could move freely and breathe the cool air.
The sun on your face as you walked through a park.

Celebrating birthdays with the people you love.
Taking photos with trees and flowers andā€¦
And beautiful scenery. Mountain, lakes, and rivers.
Swimming. Now that was a beautiful thing.

Then it came.
And it scared.
And it burned.
And it killed.
The Earth is no more, The Earth is no more.

Talking with friends as we ate icecream.
Romancing your crush with a future ahead.
Worries of money the only problem we had.
Futile, when you think about it. How everything changed.

Then it came.
And it scared.
And it burned.
And it killed.
The Earth is no more, The Earth is no more.

That asteroid killed my family.
It killed my friends and the people I knew.
It killed the children.
Those poor. Those poor innocent children.

When it came.
It scared.
It burned.
And it killed.
The Earth is no more, The Earth is no more.

Now, we are stuck in a tin can in space.
We will never get to leave this limited place.
Itā€™s essential I know, but I often wonder,
Why we get to survive. Why not others. Others more worthy?

Then it came.
And it scared.
And it burned.
And it killed.
The Earth is no more, The Earth is no more.

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Welp this wasnā€™t on my sequel bingo card but happy to see it get one :joy:

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Well this is intriguing!

Always down for colony sim, and I now have to play through the original again to see what all could be affected by choices in the original.

Looking forward to seeing more!

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An old game actually getting a sequel ?

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Edit:Ainā€™t no away 2018 was 7 yrs ago :sob:

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And weā€™re back! The first demo of the game in now available to play. This is just the first 8k words or so. Enjoy!

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3 things

1- congrats on the live demo

2- bruh one page in and you already killed off everyone on earth now I feel like thereā€™s no purpose on building the underground bunkers :sob: wasted billions of tax dollars on false hope

3- are you planning to include an import save from the last game or is it semi standalone

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1 Thanks! :slight_smile:
2 Point of view is everything. Since the asteroid hit, there has been no communication with Earth. 1200 years later, I think everyone aboard the ship is assuming.
3 I still donā€™t knowā€¦ The nature of the end of Evacuation is very open. To do it justice, I would need to write a compatible opening for a cryogenic ship (which I do have planned out), but then also adjust how people talk to each other in the later gameā€¦ Many factors would be different including your age, the people you know, and how you interact. For now Iā€™m focussed only on the main story from a habitation ship point of view.

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Maybe you could unify things by having the Cryo start to fail? So in this game the maintenance team with the advantage of the superior tech a cryoship implies starts having to wake passengers up and create a hybrid cryo-gen ship.

I would hope the results from game 1 would be significant without creating unmanageable branching.

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Hmmmā€¦ While that would ruin a LOT of planning for the cryogenic opening, it would definitely be easier to marry up with the habitation opening.

Your character from the first game (if saved on the ship) could be your great-grandfather. That would solve the problem of the age of your character. The next issue is the history aboard the habitation ship. That history has heavily influenced how people live and your first steps on Kepler 62e itself (without giving too much away). The cryogenic survivors wouldnā€™t have that. There is a possible workaround though with the hybrid-ship history (now merged into the habitation ship).

That just might be a great idea, cascat!

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This seems interesting.

I did notice that sometimes the game uses ā€œsheā€ for Jo-Too, I may have understood it wrong but is it not supposed to be ā€œtheyā€?

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Oh, good spot - I thought Iā€™d changed all of them! (switched from she to they during writing).

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So why is China hard mode and Scotland is easy mode, also havenā€™t read the first book, so I donā€™t know if thereā€™s a I lore reason why Russia isnā€™t apart of the country list, because I feel like they would be

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They are throwbacks to the first game. Iā€™ll tidy up the character creation menu at some point. Basically, in the first game, if you played as Scotland, you started with a lot more cash each year. With China, I think the rioting stats were high. Neither of those will be relevant with this game.
As for Russiaā€¦ Iā€™ve no idea why theyā€™re not there! Iā€™m guessing an oversight on my part. You are the first person to question it.

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I watch CoGdemo regularly and when I seen this pop up I was hyped! I still remember playing the first game so many times to see mostly everything and played about 5 of the countyā€™s seeing what I could do. I also remember getting so good at the ship and tech stuff I had enough time to build a whole second ship if the game would of let me. Also robot wife is best wife and upgraded to be light enough to be my carry on :joy:

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Haha, thatā€™s wonderful to hear! Iā€™ve been working over the weekend on the next part of the demo. My aim it to update fortnightly, with something else each alternate week. You will be happy to know that there will be a ā€˜buildingā€™ section within this game along the same vein as the first game.

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Writing is going well and the next update will go out on 26th/27th October.

This Saturday, however, I will release one song from the game.
The first four songs are from individual nations and were written during the journey to Kepler 62e.
The last option is from the book Evacuation and changes depending on the (English speaking) nation you play as.

  • America Alive
  • The British Still Go On
  • Vers Kepler - French
  • ä½ ęœƒčØ˜å¾—ęˆ‘å—Ž - China
  • (City) Lights - Amela le Mara song from Evacuation.
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Minor Demo Update: The Startup file has been updated to allow unlocked music to be viewed from the menu screen and the introduction music has been changed to fit the game introduction better.

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My prayers have been answered. Letā€™s gooo!!

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Results are in!!

The poll is now closed with the British beating America by a couple of votes. As those two songs mirror each other in the game, Iā€™ll release them both together.

The demo has been updated with the new songs. To play them, select ā€˜Listen to Musicā€™

Iā€™m interested in everyoneā€™s perspective on these songs - both positive and definitely negative too! Please indicate your nationality when giving your opinion here.

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