From Press Release:
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
Design and assemble your rover using an intuitive and tactile editor! Combine over 100 parts including springs, hydraulic cylinders, servo motors, rocket engines and many more to tailor your creations to the unique challenges of each job, or just let your imagination run wild.
Pilot your creations across the vast, procedurally generated terrain of Mars. Heavy cargo, fragile cargo, bouncy cargo, cargo that’s trying to float away – you never know what new challenges lay around the corner!
During the 2 year long Early Access the game got regular major updates adding things like material mining, roads and trains, new contracts, editor features like joints, Steam workshop support and more.
Features
- Intuitive, Flexible Building: Make your rovers as simple or complex as you’d like! Create anything you want, no matter how ridiculous.
- Sky’s The Limit: No one right answer leaves success up to your creativity and ingenuity.
- Open World: Traverse the striking, procedurally generated open world, with new challenges over every horizon.
- Make Mars Home: Connect and build stations using roads, monorails, power lines, water pipes and more while developing fun new areas!
- Unlock Parts: Unlock and combine parts like servo motors, hydraulic cylinders and rocket engines.
- Co-op: Tackle the challenge solo, or recruit up to 3 friends in online co-op.
About Shape Shop
Shape Shop is a new indie studio created by developer Ian MacLarty. Ian has a background in computer science and loves to experiment with programming, often using self-made tools and unconventional rendering techniques to bring his games to life. His career has spawned award-winning commercial titles like Boson X, Dissembler and Jumpgrid, as well as dozens of free projects. For Mars First Logistics, Ian has recruited the talents of Kalonica Quigley as 3D artist (Untitled Goose Game, Dead Static Drive), Dan Golding as Composer (Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective) and Mark Mitchell and Byron Scullin of Fuligin as Sound Designers (Heavenly Bodies).
