Terrene - An evidence of life game

A few more pieces of feedback:

Crash Bug: putting a gun in the crafting input slot crashed the game. I had the other input slot have a Super Gem (I was testing which items I could upgrade).

QoL: I noticed that mining rocks directly is slower and more tedious, compared to just digging the terrain block they're standing on. That said, each time I do it, the quest that counts how many rocks I've mined only cares if I directly mined the rock, disregarding any other indirect means of mining/destroying it.

QoL: I picked up some quests to hunt a number of a certain alien creature, but theres no information on where I'm supposed to go to find them.

Opinion: I feel the game is a still a grindfest much like its predecessor, but I do enjoy running around exploring planets and places with the clone person, while freely flying around with my small spaceship and kicking ass. I didn't want to grind anymore, so I used Cheat Engine to level up my ship and character to level 3000, as well as just giving myself tons of diamonds. For me, this made the game way more fun and respectful of my time.

More feedback:

+ When going to the menu to load a save, the 3 slots don't tell if there is data or what level/progress/activity I'm currently at. It gives a sense that they might be blank until I click on them, which feels a bit off. I'd like them to say if that save slot is occupied and say some minor data like what level I'm at, how many blocks I've broken and what is my total playtime on that save. Maybe even give player the option to name the save slot during a new game start so that it appears with a label in the load menu.

+ Since the game is long term adventure that can last for days, I think the menu menu would work better if the top option of the list was "Continue" to quickly load the latest saved game, instead of having to remember to click on the Load game page and then select the right one. currently it feels like I could one day click on Start Game by accident and end up losing my save file.

+ When ESC is pressed, I'm not sure if the game world is paused as the player (are monsters, events and such still happening in the background, etc), so it would give me a sense of peace and safety if the ESC menu during gameplay would say somewhere "Game is Paused".

+ There was a tall towering vine with blocks around it. I parked my spaceship at its root and used my jetpack to go up to it, but then got a message that I needed a skull key to open it (later I noticed I already had two of them in my intentory so that confused me why I didn't automatically open them), but when I started to back down my character suddenly started tumbling down in the air, free falling without me able to use my jetpack to slow my descent. I didn't like this loss of control and it felt way too punishing and arbitrary for that to happen. I took heavy damage on impact with the ground which felt unfair since I though I was prepared and had plenty energy for my jetpack.

Just tried this today and heres some feedback (v2.5):

• How does the game save progress? Game either didn't tell me or it wasn't obviously visible anywhere.
• Game start felt overwhelming due to being zoomed out, seeing a lot of detailed pixel art with multiple directions to starting walking towards, but thankfully the starting location is peaceful overall so I was able to walk around and gradually learn to interact with machines/objects. It still felt rough as an experience. Suddenly a skull appeared on the screen warning about a swarm, meanwhile an asteroid slammed on top of the space station and blew up which also freaked me out.
• I haven't died ingame yet and dont plan to, but I noticed I have stuff in my person inventory and the spaceship inventory. I assume my stuff is lost if I die, so is there a place on the space station to securely store my things? I couldn't seem to find a storage cabinet to put my things in there. I'm also concerned about dropping items if they will dissapear after a while.
• Mining is fun and I like that shooting aliens isn't too spongy on the first planet. I tried the prequel to this game and stopped playing it because it was a slow grindathon to even take down a basic alien nest/egg thing. The starting power level in Terrene is much nicer.
• Player/ship stat upgrades feel rather meh. I have to collect 150 gold nuggets just to get an increase in energy, hp and oxygen by 1 point, which barely registers as a meaningful change when doing stuff planetside.
• Crafting and inventory system feel awkward. I'd rather have a menu that simply tells me to increase a secondary item count if I have the collected goods for it, instead of doing "read tooltip, press spacebar, drag, spacebar, drag, etc" stuff. Autosort of inventory would also be nice without needing to press the manual autosort button each time.
• Since everything is so small in the game due the art style and zoom level, I get often confused what is a live alien, nest, pickup or other thing. It would be nice to hover the mouse over a thing to reveal what hp% condition it is in (terrain tile, enemy, surface prop, etc) and the name of that thing and what I could gain from it.
• Some things on the space station could use more information or introduction to say what they do, namely the compost/farm thing, the purple liquid tank.
• Walking around the space station to get to different machines to do stuff on them feels tedious and artificially lenghtens the time to play the game without anything worthwhile happening as a player experience. I just wish that experience could be streamlined or made more compact/faster/efficient/quicker somehow.
• While flying the spaceship to the planet, I felt a bit scared to slam into the ground because I didn't see an altimeter or any other way to know where the surface of the planet was as I was flying towards it.

Overall not a bad game so far. It feels a bit awkward during the sudden unguided start, meanwhile playing I get a confused sense of what anything is on the planet and what I'm I doing this for (what is the ultimate end goal or progression of this game) and many of the game mechanics seem like I only learn how they work after I mess around instead of getting a clear introduction to them prior. I will play it more later, I like a lot of parts about it, especially how I can freely pilot my spaceship and physically fly it to the planet and switch to hover mode to "land on it", sort of like a Super Metroid experience. That is pretty cool.

How do I use glitch gate?

Is this even a game?

does this game have action?

so this is basically terraria

I really like this game but is there a way I can take it out of the folder with all the other files in it and have it on my desktop cause it is really annoying.

This game is pretty good so far. I loved evidence of life, so I was really happy when I heard about the sequel. There's one thing I think it needs: Scripted events. Maybe the robot could start malfunctioning, or you find the corpse of the first astronuaht and it starts attack you, or maybe you need to use your jetpack in space to fight off against a massive space snake thing.

I love this games visuals and music. It's got a great atmousphere. Well done for making this masterpiece!

Im Doing A Lets Play on my channel for terrene

Check It Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBIlKrhV2I

So I've finished the game, I have more feedback to give :
- When I thought the space was mostly empty of enemies except for the giant wasp and bees, I discovered that a giant creepy space worm can destroy me and my ship while I try to harvest an asteroid. That legit scared me first time.

-Near the end of the game, I feel like the only good weapon against the litteral army of sometime tanky enemies is the flamethrower, his piercing and high DPS make it the only really usefull weapon at this point.

-When I want to buy something on the ship, we should be able to buy multiple times the same thing without having to press space bar multiple time. It's especially noticeable when you want to buy ammo, so you have to press space bar dozens of time to buy everything. Maybe I'm stupid and there is a fast way I haven't figured out to buy more ammo faster.

-It's kind of sad there is only one boss type (the egg thing) I expected more compared to the 2 (3 if I count the space worm?) sub bosses.

I think I've listed everything I wanted to say about this game. Good job ! This game is interesting. I'm looking forward for updates. I'm done with this game for now.

it keeps not responding for me. anyone can help?

I have played this game for 3-4 hours now and the concept of "you have to collect ressources but the more you harvest the planet, the more enemies spawn to attack you" is very solid. For now I have some question, opinion and suggestion :

-The space is definitely big and somewhat empty as far as I've seen, I've only seen some static asteroid with great ore in it or some sort of varying sized bees trying to attack my ship but I go too fast for them. It looks like sort of loading screen, but you have to hold some button to progress that loading. Maybe doing some sort of event like moving asteroid filled with great ore or more powerfull enemies with great reward can be interesting.

-Maybe change the way the robot tells you tips because as far as I see he tells tips randomly and regularly and this  can get boring, maybe make it talks about stuff happening on screen such as talking about the yellow ore when the player is harvesting some yellow ore.

-The artifacts should have  a sort of rewards because for now, they are just objectives to the player to finish the game, I don't really get satisfied when I got one because they basically do nothing special, maybe some of them can unlock some special abilities or improve your weapons in some way like "make you ship shoot three projectiles instead of one" for example ? Maybe it's the same issue about the boss hearts but I don't get a single one for now.

-Where are the bosses ? For now I've encountered two mouth black hole and one big worm poping out the floor and shooting stuff at me. I suppose they are the sub bosses but I haven't encountered a single big boss yet. Maybe I should explore further or go deeper but when I go deeper I encounter grey block which I suppose is bedrock.

-I like the atmosphere a lot, it's like Risk of Rain but more eerie and creepier, the music help a lot.

I will go further in the game, it has very good premise. Looking forward for more content because the game can be kinda repetitive with time.

Terraria in space

just saw the gameplay on Randomise User's Youtube channel, looks like some great fun. i decided it is at least worth $10 if not more compared to what you get these days from big AAA folks. 

look forward to see where this game goes.

No avaliable for linux distro?

I know this probably isn't the right place to ask but I couldn't find it anywhere else, what do green and rainbow ores do? I assume they currently don't have a use and will in future. Also, just curious, but is the rock at the bottom of the map indestructable? Or do I need to upgrade my mining tool more? Great game though!

I've stumbled upon this game when browsing itch.io by "newest" and I decided to note stuff during playthrough. I didn't play long though, just 40 minutes. Maybe it's not my cup of tea. Here is what i noted:
* lack of sounds in menu when selecting options 
* no fullscreen option? I had to figure it out, the shortcut is alt+enter
* very long loading time when creating a world. the game freezed on the first try of loading the new world. I had to kill the process and try again
* the tutorial is meeeh. there are so many minerals to find that I felt overwhelmed. 
* I think that the tips given by the robo-friend during gameplay should be packed in some introduction level. Maybe something like the first planet in No Man's Sky where you are getting familiar with controls and what the game is about
Speaking of that...
* what are the artefacts? Why I should want to find them?
* what are the Hearts? Why should I kill them?
I think that this was the main thing that prevent me from playing longer. I don't have the feeling of purpose when playing.

* the ambient music in the undeground contains some weird sounds that made me think that I'm being attacked by some strange creatures only to find out it was the music all along. I don't know if it's intentional, but it's kinda scary to me haha (I'm not a horror guy)
* buuut the music is great! I really like ambient when playing games.
* the spaceship sprite is great! I really like when it turns buuut I wish there were more animation frames
* I like the design of the creatures

* why the space is soooo biiiiig? Like really, the empty space between the planet and station is soooo biiig! 
* I wish I was able to navigate the ship using mouse. It's hard to shoot stuff using only WSAD
* the automatic Hover mode when near the surface was problematic for me. I didn't always want to land. I would prefer bumping at full speed into mountain and loose some hp than: going full speed -> going into automatic hover mode -> switching to fly mode again

And that would be it. Sorry for not playing more and unlocking more stuff, I've seen that I can upgrade and unlock some things.  I hope that this long comment will be helpful for you! I will give it a try and play it again after few updates. Good luck!

Loving it so far!

...reminds me of starbound... i mean i didnt played, like im not even sure if i wanna claim cause like chances of me playing this are like really low

I logged many hours in Evidence of Life.  I loved it!  This feels even better so far.  

I love the feeling of flying on your jetpack! lots of fun :)

How do I control? I could not press the menu items

Had great fun live streaming this game. Will definitely be doing more.

it looks cool ! I'll give it a try, but I have an azerty keyboard :c

What a blast - this game has so many biomes, varied enemies, power ups and weapon types. It is insanely fun, strategic and I really enjoy exploring, mining and surviving on a totally alien world. The music is very atmospheric and the SFX are top notch. The artwork is brilliant and stays true to the original EOL. Great work so far with this one.