Planet Grinder

A RealTime Strategy game featuring two corporations vying for control of a planet rich in resources. Use infantry and interns to capture territory, expand your base, then capture the Planet Grinders and grind your opponent into dust!

Playable on PC in your browser or with the dedicated windows build for better performance and graphics

Made with Keyboard and Mouse in mind, but should be playable with controller or touchscreen, but on my old-ass mobile hardware most of the game doesn't render so YMMV. Optimized for 16:9 screens.

Controls

• Mouse to point and click
• Scroll to zoom
• WASD or mouse to edge of window to pan camera
• Tab or Esc to open menu

How to play

Start the game by choosing an enemy and a map size. I recommend starting with sandbox or turtle on a medium map. Sandbox has no active enemy so you can experiment with no pressure, while turtle is pretty defensive.

Click on tiles with your flag on it to show the construction menu, where you can click to build a structure there. Building new structures can unlock new technologies, allowing you to build different structures. Some structures have their own build options. For example, the HQ you start with allows you to recruit interns, but there are dedicated structures such as barracks and drone factories that allow you to build more advanced units.

Units are fully autonomous and cannot be directly controlled. You can choose if they spawn clockwise or counterclockwise, but that's it. There are 6 tech tiers that can be researched in a game, unlocking powerful units such as drones, aircraft, tanks and mechs.

Resources

You will have to manage your resources to expand quickly. Power and Heat are continuous resources that cannot be stored, and will affect your produciton efficiency if you do not produce enough. Ore, Metal and Gold are used to build structures and units, and you will need to plan ahead and build more resource-producing buildings. You can click on constructed buildings to see their consumption and production, while the UI bar on the top of your screen shows your total values.

In the middle between your HQ and the enemy HQ are Planet Grinders. These can be captured by infantry and are indestructible. Once captured, they will start grinding into the direction of the enemy. It will pulverize tiles in front of it, spewing massive amounts of earth and resources into the atmosphere. The planet will shrink in size when these are active. They can be stopped only by capturing them.

How to win

Destroy the enemy HQ to win! If your HQ is destroyed, you lose! Can you defeat the two difficult AIs on a large or huge map?

Have fun :D

Credits

Kenney for most of the visual assets and sfx. The rest (gameplay, music, design etc) made by myself. I ran out of time to animate the units and add more/better SFX, but the core gameplay loop is working :D