Comet Culling

This project is being developed as a part of DES310 Professional Project at Abertay University.

About

Comet Culling is a retro inspired, pixel art farming simulator set in space. 

Join PR1NC3,  a little helper android, as they travel through space in a plant-powered ship.  Their battery is running low and the only way to charge it is to stop on a deserted planet and farm their fuel. 

Discover alien species of plants, talk to a mysterious merchant that decided to stop by, read the logs saved on the ship and reveal what happened to PR1NC3 and their crew!

Gameplay

• Tend to your crops
  
• Use the crops to power up the ship 
• Maintain stamina in order to continue working
• Talk to the merchant 
• Access the ship logs

Features

• Pixel 2D art
• 2 types of animated alien plants
• Space theme and atmosphere 
• Mystery lurking underneath the wholesome facade!

Controls

Key	Functionality
WASD/Arrow keys	move up, down, left and right
Space/Left mouse button	perform action
TAB	open/close the inventory
ESC	pause
Mouse	move cursor to navigate the menus and inventory

Watch our gameplay video

Promotional material

Download the PDF file attached to see our ideas for merchandise!

You can also print the stickers for yourself.

Follow us on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/MooncakeInk

Our team

Production, writing - Anna Pandel

Lead programmer - Alex De La Cour

Lead artist, game design - Beau Klock

Tool programming, supporting narrative design - Shangit S. Cruze

Animations, 2D art - Kelly Paterson

Programming, 2D art - Bruno Rosenbaum Amador

Sound design, game design  - Aaron Durning

Concept art, promotional art - Garfield Greenwood

Special thanks

Academic tutor - Christos Michalakos

Module leads for DES310- Robin Griffiths and Martin Lynagh

Testers

Sam Murison

Isaac Heneghan

Unity Plug-in

Our dialogues were created using Yarn Spinner by Secret Lab

Available at: https://yarnspinner.dev/