Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books

This is so cool. How are you going to simulate Michel's longing for Provence? Seriously though I adore the trilogy. I started a Mars storymapping project which incorporated Underhill, Senzeni Na, the Moholes etc. a little while back too:

https://saltwatercowboy.github.io/marsinplace/

Terraforming Mars is a board game that heavily references these novels which i highly recommend.

Loud music warning for those wearing headphones.

Played for a bit, liked the aesthetics so I bookmarked it to come back to it later and discovered a bug. On mac/chrome, I hit CMD + D to bookmark. By doing so, I setup some kind of autowalk bug where I kept walking to the right. I couldn't stop myself from walking, even pressing WAS temporarily stopped me but as soon as I let go, I kept walking right.

Had 1000 of each resource, lots of income, landing pads and habitats, but never got more colonists?

I must have missed something because my HP keeps ticking down until I pass out and get warped back to the command center. Eating food and resting do not seem to change the situation.

I'm on mobile (Android, Brave), and I can do everything but interact with the people. Am I doing something wrong?

Hmm, I just get a black screen on my iPhone when I click your link.

Did you use any existing stuff like the mars-sim project? https://mars-sim.sourceforge.io/

Great, how did you build it? Also I have to read the books

I am on Firefox and it does nothing, no movement, just flashing resource monitors with zero values...

Interesting game, love the design.

Struggled a little before understanding the instructions.

Surviving Mars (2018) is another really good game in this category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5djTZfKVIKQ

It’s not really clear how it’s played.

Made me think of this gem:

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/ultima-worlds-of-adventur...

It is hard to understand and play... maybe make it more obvious. I made a solar panel, it says I should assign staff...

I would love to play if it would work. And music, thank god for the mute button.

Lovely series. One of the first science fiction series I read that gave a proper anarchist culture a shot. (A big thing most people don't understand about anarchism is that it's not a violent, crime ridden, disorderly society without rules, but rather a society built on the idea that everyone deserves care, and we should all put in some effort to achieve that in a self organizing way.)

Loved seeing things like gift economies, self organization and free association, and a general care for both the people and the planet in those books.