Hey, Meeple!
This week, we’re taking a look at progression in Meeple Station, and how you will be able to build your blossoming Meeple empire. We can practically see you all out there, rubbing your hands together in anticipation of your new overlord status! So how do you and your station rise to the top?
In Meeple Station you'll have the freedom to specialise your station the way you want. The more you grow your station, the more renown you will gain, and thus gain ranks. Ranks will saddle you with the unfortunate baggage of another officer, useless bureaucrats who want nothing more than to run amok running your station their way. They’re more than happy to issue random orders to your Meeple, if they’re not kept sufficiently happy to keep them from meddling. On the bright side, these troublesome fellows bring with them the ability to research new expertise, and unlock new content. Officers lend nothing to the day-to-day operation of your station, but are all too happy to eat your food, breathe your oxygen, and let you know how important they are. They could order your helpless Meeple to build a core reactor in the dormitories if you let them have their way!
The ill-tempered officers, though difficult, will expand your research to new fields of expertise, including botany, advanced electronics, shield generators, combat turrets, exploration vessels, and even quantum fuel processors. You can advance your station in the fields that best suit you. Some branches of research will require prerequisites. For example, quantum engines and dilithium fuel processing will require knowledge of advanced circuitry. Building shield generators will require laboratories, so that you can refine the advanced materials you need.
Not only will you have the know-it-all officers distracting you with their snobbery, you will also have to contend with other dangers as you expand your station and your renown. In addition to attracting positive attention, you will also catch the attention of nasty things like pirates, who want to plunder your station. Lurking space beetles will hungrily eye your power sources. Worst of all, the Giant Electric Man Eating Space Squids, or GEMESS for short, will seek to wreak havoc on your poor little meeple.
Still ready to take over the universe by way of your Meeple Station? Good! We knew you would be! Join us next week for more Meeple Peeple News, and if you haven’t yet tried the demo, it’s available now on our itch.io page! Give it a go, and let us know your thoughts on our Discord server!
[ 2018-08-06 16:04:26 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Meeple Station LINUX [1.19 G]
Meeple are simple creatures. They're not human, nor are they incredibly intelligent. They're a race of space fairing creatures who enjoy industry, work, and exploration. But they need a lot of guidance, YOUR guidance, in fact.
Unique Meeple Roles
They come in various shapes, sizes and colours. And each Meeple has their own role, so you'll need to recruit the ones best suited for the jobs you need. Miners, engineers, refiners, janitors, guards or lab workers, there are plenty of jobs to be done.Meeple are very fragile creatures, and if not taken care of properly, can be prone to any number of possible fatalities. If you're not careful, they could easily fall victim to starvation, suffocation, implosion, explosion, decapitation, electrification, incineration or just unlucky enough to get sucked out of an airlock or gobbled up by an alien.
Build it your way!
There is a wide range of paraphernalia for a space station. From simple furniture, like bedding and seating, to complex machinery, life support and power grids. You choose where and how to build it all, and your Meeple will have to adjust to your changes.You will also be responsible for rigging up the main power grid, making sure everything is plugged in, and that you are creating enough power to keep everything alive!
You don't control individual Meeple, your job is to give them orders and create designations. They will always do their best to follow through on the jobs you create, unless of course they're being pursued by a giant electric man-eating space squid... although they may still attempt it.
Space is a dangerous place, putting aside natural disasters, solar flares and stray meteors, you also need to worry about pirates!
Meeple pirates are bent on destruction, they simply want nothing more than annihilation of everything non-pirate. That includes you and your Meeple!
If there are pirates near your station, they wont be able to resist the chance to create havoc. Defend yourself with trained Meeple, and combat turrets, otherwise your station will soon be a floating assortment of scrap.
A bustling station will bring in a lot of trade and commerce, traders will fly in from all over the quadrant to dock at your station. Which is fortunately very lucrative for you!
There are also plenty of resources just floating around. You can order your mining crew to get out there and salvage it. You can then refine the minerals you collect to construct and develop new components for your station.
Undertake a campaign, building difficult stations and meet pressing deadlines. Or sit back, relax and run your own little station, at your own pace, moving around the quadrant, exploring nearby planets and being a centre for trade and commerce.
- Processor: 1.2 GHzMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Minimal
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04/SteamOS
- Processor: Quad CoreMemory: 2048 MB RAM
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+. GLSL 1.2+. 256 MB VRAM
- Storage: 100 MB available space
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