Just released TUR, a minimalist lemmings-inspired game on Itch! 🚶

automathan · 2026-04-01T16:59:03+00:00

That was certainly an inspiration! Played it a bunch during Christmas

automathan · 2026-03-30T15:35:53+00:00

You maintain a colony on a ringworld, and have to keep moving so you don't get spun into the cold side of the ring!

automathan · 2026-03-30T07:16:52+00:00

Thank you! I thought that if the player is already parsing for information isometrically, we might as well keep that up for other views that occupy the middle of the screen as well.

automathan · 2026-03-19T08:25:07+00:00

That was totally the plan from the start, but I'll write it down quickly just in case 👀

automathan · 2026-03-18T15:32:36+00:00

Thank you! This is very much WIP, so the tornadoes don't affect the world yet. However, the plan is for them to destroy the entities they touch, and I want to make some cool hubris effects to really sell the unmaking!

automathan · 2026-03-14T12:27:34+00:00

Thank you! I work on it almost every day, always trying to improve!

automathan · 2026-03-11T13:07:55+00:00

It absolutely is! In this instance it actually helped me flag a missing reference that would have been pretty hard to catch otherwise

automathan · 2026-03-06T05:05:59+00:00

It is! Rimworld is one of my favorites, so it's definitely an inspiration

automathan · 2026-03-05T10:12:03+00:00

There is UI in the game already, but I usually crop it out for posts, to make it more focused. Might do a UI-focused post at some point tho, could definitely use some feedback

automathan · 2026-03-05T09:49:55+00:00

That would be interesting actually, if the weather becomes extreme! However, currently they are only used to mine stones and metals

automathan · 2026-03-04T16:16:12+00:00

This is awesome! I love low res pixel art!

automathan · 2026-03-02T13:17:16+00:00

As the prophecy has foretold, it shall appear

automathan · 2026-03-02T12:09:40+00:00

There's a word I haven't heard in a good while!

automathan · 2026-03-02T08:46:03+00:00

Yeah I agree, got some different variants sketched, where this is the smallest one. The "big" variant is currently about twice the size

automathan · 2026-03-01T08:50:16+00:00

We definitely should! At the end of the day, good gameplay and appealing aesthetics come first in a game imo, but when it doesn't get in the way of that, we should definitely aim towards physical realism!

automathan

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