In Planet Explorers, it is the year 2287, one of the first colony ships sent out by Earth arrives at the planet Maria, in the Epsilon Indi Star System. During its landing sequence, something appears in front of the massive ship that causes it to lose control and crash into the planet. Some of the colonists survive in lifeboats, but what they find is an unforgiving land filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors from Earth. Now the survivors must explorer, gather, build, create, fight, and ultimately, build a new home.
Game Modes
Planet Explorers will feature single and multiplayer modes.
In single player there are 3 distinct selections
Story Mode – Story mode is the main meat and bones of the game, it is the action-adventure-rpg-somewhat-4X segment, offering npcs, missions, colony building, farming, ranching, training, diplomacy, and of course, a storyline that you can follow or ignore. This story features a 17X8km world map with many unique character, landscapes, biomes, locations, and over 100 types of potential enemies. Even though we’ve made it seem like a very action oriented game in the trailers, in reality, players can choose to not fight so much as to just plant a farm, make some food, keep the colonists alive, negotiate with the sentient aliens, and defend the perimeter from the local life forms. That can still eventually arrive at the ending. And yes, there is an ending. Story mode also features coop with other players.
Adventure Mode – This mode is based on a procedural map generated from a seed. Currently, it comes in a 40X40 kilometer map. Players will be able to complete random missions, defeat bosses, and explore different landscapes in the mode and eventually be able to setup conditions that they want to play (such as tower defense or attack an alien camp). This mode will also feature survival gameplay. The randomization in this mode will eventually pull in player made objects and locations so that a world will always feature something new and unique.
Build Mode – In this mode, there are no enemies and an infinite amount of building material. It also currently comes in a 40X40km map. Players will be able to build whatever they want in this mode, including everything in the Creations Editor. Think of this as the perfect testing ground to test everything you build. Or…it’s your place to build your garden without ever worrying about the pesky aliens.
Multiplayer allows Local Area Network and player hosted servers. It features several modes but some are still on the drawing board or going through technical trials so the final result is still in flux. Players playing multiplayer should be able to bring at least one of their created objects into multiplayer games, be it a sword, gun, or vehicle.
Coop – Coop comes in many selections, such as adventure mode, tower defense mode, build mode, etc. This is pretty much an open world sandbox with a max of 32 players (this number still needs to be stress tested).
Versus – This mode allows teams of up to 16 players to battle against 16 players from another team. We allow full terrain manipulation in this mode. Currently, it's a point based system where one team wins if they reach a certain point level based on kills, built objects, resources mined, etc.
Game Features
Current
20+ hours of storyline
70+ types of enemies
20+ unique mainline NPCs
Able to dig
Able to build
Able to plant farm
Able to build colony
Able to have followers
Creation Editor to create vehicles, weapons, objects, vtols, and more
Day/night cycle with realistic moon cycles
Weather system
15+ types of mineral types
200+ unique items
Resource scanner
Realtime AI pathfinding
Multiplayer COOP
Multiplayer VS
Realtime water physics
Planned
Finish up the single player storyline
30+ more enemy types
More mainline NPCs
Multiple boss types
Story Editor
Herding
AI bot followers
Ingame music player
Hardcore survival mode
Negotiation with aliens
War with aliens
Missions to the moons
More objects in Creation Editor (boats, mechs, armor, etc.)
Maybe
Riding animals
NPC Marrying
NPC Procreation
Season system
System Requirements
Windows
MINIMUM:
OS: Win 7 64bit
Processor: i3+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 460+ HD 5700+
DirectX: Version 10
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must have OpenCL compatible CPU or GPU (DX10.1) 32bit can run, but will experience some memory crashes on higher qualities
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Win 7 + 64bit
Processor: i5+
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 760+ HD7000+
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 8 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must have OpenCL compatible CPU or GPU (DX10.1)
Mac OS X
MINIMUM:
OS: OSX 10.7
Processor: i3+
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 460+ HD 5700+
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must have OpenCL compatible CPU or GPU (DX10.1)
RECOMMENDED:
OS: OSX 10.7+
Processor: i5+
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 760+ HD7000+
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 8 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must have OpenCL compatible CPU or GPU (DX10.1)
SteamOS + Linux
MINIMUM:
OS: Linux Kernal 3.2
Processor: i3+
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 460+ HD 5700+
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must have OpenCL compatible CPU or GPU (DX10.1)
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Linux Kernal 3.2+
Processor: i5+
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 760+ HD7000+
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 8 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must have OpenCL compatible CPU or GPU (DX10.1)
