An atmospheric-terraforming game on a depleted alien planet. Build the automation. Defend through the storms. Replenish the biomes. When the world is ready, send the signal.
Aftercode threads three loops — terraform, build, defend — into one session. Advance the world, not just the character.
Climb the Terraforming Index — Heat, Pressure, Oxygen, Biomass, Insects, Animals — with industrial machines. Each rung shifts the world: the sky thickens, ice retreats, the first green creeps in.
Snap walls, floors and machines onto a Satisfactory-style grid. Build multi-floor outposts, run power across the network, chain extractor → conveyor → refiner → terraformer.
Five sci-fi damage types — Kinetic, Plasma, Cryo, EMP, Radiation — across an agnostic 8 + 8 hotbar. Defend outposts with buildable turrets and field-deployable scouts.
Frames lifted straight from the latest devlog cut. The aesthetic is intentionally utilitarian — these are real gameplay captures, not vertical-slice trailer art.
First placement — Day 1, Heat the planet to 30%.
Build menu — atmospheric & power chains slot together.
Pole placement — valid (blue) vs blocked (orange) ghosts.
Outpost online — wired power feeds an Air Purifier.
Day 2 · Pressure climbing past 47% / 55%.
"Pad standing by" — habitat awaiting restoration.
The pivot from open-world ARPG to terraforming-first. Each phase is a concrete deliverable, not a wishlist.
Aftercode is now Planet Crafter × Satisfactory × Riftbreaker.
Atmospheric terraforming + biome restoration. Three pillars locked.
~70% of infrastructure carries forward — pivot is content + goal.
Every system classified — dies, reframes, survives, missing — with file paths and effort estimates.
ARPG remnants stripped — every legacy module removed cleanly.
Heat, Boons/Cores, Vendor/Gold, NPC-Quests, Dungeon, Hub modules removed in per-batch commits.
Five sci-fi damage types replace the fantasy ladder. Zero residue.
Fire→Plasma, Cold→Cryo, Lightning→EMP, Physical→Kinetic, Chaos→Radiation. C# fields, SO YAML, and scene wiring renamed in lockstep.
Atmosphere · Storms · Biomes — three new modules, fully scaffolded.
Terraforming Index service, storm orchestration, biome restoration state — the spine of the new game.
Snap-to-grid modular kit. Multi-floor, ghost preview, real consequences.
Socket-based modular kit on a 1m grid with ghost preview, snap rules, and the placement controller live.
Producer → wire → consumer chains, visible and gated.
Power propagates across the network graph; machines refuse to operate when their input drops.
Storm-resistant outposts that hold under planet-wide pressure.
Storm-resistance tiers modelled, defensive turret category online. Defense walls + repair flow next.
Win condition coupled to the work — broadcast Earth or don't.
Multi-stage broadcast under ramped storm + fauna pressure. The endgame fires only when the planet is actually ready.
Solo + 4-player co-op live, free-tier hosting, no infrastructure.
Unity Multiplayer Services Sessions API — Relay, Lobby, host/join. Peer-hosted. Zero ops.
The first 30 minutes are the marketing trailer.
First-30-minute opening flow, jam-mode HUDs, mission log, restoration HUD, sci-fi weapons, storm VFX.
Coming-soon Steam page live. Wishlists start counting toward launch-day visibility.
Submit to Steam Direct, ship capsule art at all five required sizes, cut a 90-second store trailer, paste the press kit. Page goes live as "Coming Soon" and the wishlist button starts collecting on day one.
Build progress, design pivots, and the occasional rabbit-hole. Ship-tracked, not sprint-tracked.
Ship the marketing site, kick off the R1 codebase audit, and walk through the module-by-module classification matrix.
Isolated playtest scene with a 3-day terraforming loop, fuel-gated machines, and the new build-mode reticle. Available to Patrons.
The open-world ARPG framing is retired. Aftercode is now Planet Crafter × Satisfactory × Riftbreaker, threaded together by storms and the Earth Beacon endgame.
Locked in the three pillars — terraform, build, defend. Each is a full loop on its own; the magic is the overlap. Notes on why this shape.
A walk-through of the design space narrowing — open-world ARPG → survival → terraforming-first — and what each iteration taught me before the pivot.
Reading Riftbreaker, Helldivers 2, Torchlight 3 and asking what the right combat shape for Aftercode is. Spoiler: 2-5 hits per fight, lots of tools.
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