Exploring Humanity

Description

Exploring Humanity is a prototype game submitted for the Kenney Jam 2023. Playing on the theme of "Exploration," this experience allows you to see the world through the eyes of curious aliens exploring a civilization far far away called simply humans.

As alien explorers you have to look for human artifacts by scanning the environment and collecting them. Once inside the ship you need to figure out what these artifacts actually are by analyzing them. Some artifacts unlock more insight to previous findings.

Controls

WASD - Movement

Mouse Wheel - Zoom

Left Mouse - click and move to

Right Mouse - move camera

Game play

The game has two scenes on is the World and the other the Ship.

In the world view you can use these four scanners to scan for organic, mechanic, electronic and cultural artifacts.

Inside the ship you can select the artifact you have found and analyze them. Some artifacts depend on previous discoveries. If this happens the game will give you a hint in the analyzer window.

Background

I wanted to take a spin on exploration and combine it with the mundane. Hence the idea of exploring every day items through the lens of alien explorers.
I took the game jam as an opportunity to learn Godot. I am releasing the source files even though the code is in quite a rough state and uses some inflexible structures. 

Source Code
Source code is released under MIT License on github