Derelict Void - Demo

A base building defense game where you must expand your base towards the enemy waves to stop them!

Build nodes to expand your reach, mine minerals, and get in range of enemy portals with your defensive turrets. Exploit the remains of your enemies along with a lost civilization to research more advanced nodes before you are overwhelmed by enemy drones.

Goal

Expand your base outwards towards the source of the enemies and you will find a portal from which the enemy spawns. Destroy these portals to win. Balance defense with expansion so as to not get caught off-guard by the enemy waves.

Each enemy wave gets stronger, so don't delay too long!.

Background

The idea is inspired by my experience playing large scale RTS games such as Ashes of the Singularity, Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation, where fighting off large waves of enemy units using stationary defence in a key area of the map, before pushing forward to capture more strategic areas is a fond memory I have from those games.

Rather than try build an entire RTS by myself (Which would take me untold millenia!), I tried to capture that feeling in a more minimalist way.

Some other inspirations are an old flash game called The Space Game and rymdkapsel.

Thanks for checking it out!

Controls

Interact with the control UI with the mouse, pan the camera with WSAD (to be improved), when placing nodes, right-click to cancel selection, left click to confirm. Some nodes can be selected with left-click to provide more information in the bottom left panel. 

This is an initial demo for Derelict Void, containing three stages, More stages are planned in the full release, along with ship customization metagame. Some elements in the current demo do nothing/have no impact as they are intended for this future feature.