This, combined with Aven Prime’s low oxygen levels, meant that a traditional fire mechanic wouldn’t work.Īs a substitute, we designed an alien fungus called “the creep.” This is an aggressive alien life form that lacks sentience or consciousness. Colonies in Aven Colony are constructed with nano-scale carbon-metallic nano-cubes called “nanites,” which aren’t flammable. Most city-builders include a mechanic where some buildings occasionally catch fire and will spread across the city if there aren’t enough fire stations to put them out. The traditional city-builder fire mechanic also posed unique challenges. It’s possible to counter this by building Lightning Towers that will protect the colony and shuttle the electricity from the strike into any Energy Batteries you may have. Each Sol is divided into seasons, and the “winter” season (nighttime) features cold winds, frost and snow, and dramatic lightning strikes that can damage or destroy buildings.
As the Aven Expedition has landed on a moon that circles an alien gas giant, the world has a very different day and night cycle from Earth, with time divided into “Sols” lasting approximately one Earth week. Time and seasons also pose a challenge on Aven Prime. Your plasma turrets can even shoot the weather, in the form of supercooled hailstones (“shard storms”). Unlike any other city-builder, Aven Colony lets you collect and activate alien artifacts, pack your colonists into expedition vessels and send them exploring outside the colony, and build plasma turrets and lightning towers and other buildings to protect your colonists from creep spores and plague spores. This meant that quite often, traditional genre conventions do not apply – “where we’re going, there are no roads.” We felt strongly that we wanted to embrace and extend some of the best city-builder genre conventions wherever possible, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.Īt the same time, Aven Colony has a strong emphasis on survival, and taking place on an alien world that’s often hostile and works very differently from Earth. On the one hand, we designed Aven Colony to be easy for city-builder fans to pick up and play immediately, and we did an incredible amount of due diligence on the best standards across the city-builder genre.
Along with that, you need to deal with all of the survival challenges that this hostile alien world presents. Our goal is to make you feel like the governor of humanity’s first settlement on an alien world, lightyears from earth and 500 years in the future, growing a tiny, vulnerable colony on an exotic world into a massive, sprawling sci-fi metropolis. Aven Colony is a non-traditional city-builder.
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