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This is a yet unnamed roguelike prototype where the player is a mech or a robot. I still don't know.
I'd call it somewhat playable, very unfinished, many bugs. Press '<' to fly to another planet. I planned quests that have to be completed before you can leave a planet, but I never started implementing them. Instead you just have to kill some enemies.
You can change equipment on the city planet. Components have slots where other components can be installed. So you can build your mech/robot modularly.
I really hate naming things...

Binaries:
https://v-ktor.itch.io/planetary-sanitations-inc

A lot of complicated, uncommented code can be found here:
Repository:
https://gitlab.com/vhahn/rlm

Screenshots:

Am I guessing right from the screenshots that these are tiny 3D planets with 2D sprites on top? A bit Planetary Anihilation style? That would be pretty cool!

Julius {l Wrote}:Am I guessing right from the screenshots that these are tiny 3D planets with 2D sprites on top?

They are 2D sprites shifted to look like they are on a 3D surface. Actually the map is a torus in real as this is easier to achieve.

Definitely neat. If you release some Linux binaries I will give it a try, but I lack the time right now to figure out how to compile it.

As for names: why not do a brainstorm and poll here or on our fediverse site https://social.freegamedev.net (it has a poll feature build in).

My quick ideas are:

Planet Fall (but already sort of taken by the upcoming new AoW)
Dropship (as in Battletech, those round things)
War of the Worlds (a classic )

Plus one vote for binaries

And a few possible names proposal to add to Julius' suggestions:
RogueMech
RogueBot
ModularRogue
UpgradableRogue
SpaceSanitary
Planetary Sanitations Inc. (kinda AAA Ace Planet Decontamination Service)

Thanks for the suggestions. I added a poll, also with some of my own ideas.
As for the binaries, you don't have to compile anything. It will work by using the binaries from https://godotengine.org/download, either by putting them into the game directory and running the binary or run in terminal with --path <path to game data>.
I should still add binaries soon, but I don't have the time to do so right now.

Planetary Sanitations Inc. FTW!!!

Would go well with a "MechWarrior Mercenaries" kind of scenario.

I played it a bit (importing it as a project in Godot and then running it works), fairly enjoyable already!

My main gripes right now: mouse movement is really uncomfortable as you can always only click on the nearest tiles (and sometimes the blue cursor remains as an artifact), but keyboard movement also doesn't work properly as with WASD you can't move top-left / top-right (i.e. pressing W and A/D the same time doesn't move you in that respective direction).

Have you played GearHead series?

Julius {l Wrote}:My main gripes right now: mouse movement is really uncomfortable as you can always only click on the nearest tiles (and sometimes the blue cursor remains as an artifact), but keyboard movement also doesn't work properly as with WASD you can't move top-left / top-right (i.e. pressing W and A/D the same time doesn't move you in that respective direction).

I don't know whether it's a good idea or not to allow to click on any tile for moving. It may be unclear in which direction the player will move. It's also possible to move the player along the shortest path to the tile that was clicked (and stop after moving one tile if enemies are visible or being attacked).
You can use QWEASD or keypad to move. There will be configurable controls soon.

O01eg {l Wrote}:Have you played GearHead series?

I think I heard about it but I haven't played it.

You can use QWEASD or keypad to move.

Hmm, very odd. I tried "Q" and "E" for sure, but now that I tried it again it is actually working... So forget what I said

After having finally internet access I pushed the change of mouse movement.
As for the name I guess it was not a good idea to add that many options. I think I will go with "Planetary Sanitations Inc.". It gives me some ideas of missions you have to complete in order to clear the level.

I published this game now on itch.io. Binaries are available for download on that page.

Thanks for binaries! It's totally amazing!
Ranged weapons seem to be too overpowered (I couldn't get anywhere far, until I started as gunner, while melee fighter always misses and gets a lot of hits until dies). But once I started understanding the game mechanics it was totally awesome

Awesome works, it looks pretty neat! And always nice to see new FOSS games made with Godot

Give me a shout when you feel like the game is in a packaging-worthy state, I'd love to package it for my Linux distro.

Akien {l Wrote}:Give me a shout when you feel like the game is in a packaging-worthy state, I'd love to package it for my Linux distro.

I think it will take some weeks. I need to improve the GUI and there are some other issues that have to be addressed.

It took me some time, but finally the new version of Planetary Sanitations Inc. was just released.
It contains mostly bug fixes, an improved GUI and few more missions.
You can find binaries here: https://v-ktor.itch.io/planetary-sanitations-inc and the changelog here: https://gitlab.com/vhahn/rlm/blob/stable/CHANGELOG.md.

Great!
Today I've had an opportunity to test the latest release binaries and it's really becoming better every day

v0.3 was released two weeks ago. It was a rather large release adding some new content.
https://v-ktor.itch.io/planetary-sanitations-inc/devlog/118619/planetary-sanitations-inc-v030-alpha

Edit: I have not added a discord server for Planetary Sanitations Inc. *whistle*

Build in IRC chat then?

BTW, did you see:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/ ... like.15813

Edit:
https://github.com/TheDuriel/GDTwitch
https://github.com/Timofffee/GodotIRC

Julius {l Wrote}:BTW, did you see:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/ ... like.15813

Yes. Also google said that some of the people coming from that site downloaded the windows build

Julius {l Wrote}:https://github.com/TheDuriel/GDTwitch
https://github.com/Timofffee/GodotIRC

There is no in-game chat but this looks useful just in case.