Orbits Remaining

Note: There is no audio in the initial GMTK Game Jam build. Balance may be a bit off.

You and your crew are marooned on a small space station orbiting a distant planet. 

You have enough supplies to last only a fraction of the time it will take for help to arrive. 

In order to survive, you must send probes down to the planet in order to scan for materials, and then send your lander down to extract those materials to be converted into usable resources back on your ship. 

You must plot out each trip down to the planet, step by step, accounting for distance to travel vs available fuel, time to travel to and from a landing zone, time spent gathering resources vs available oxygen, food, and water, and flight paths that reconcile the planet's rotation and the space station's orbit.

Successful planetary resource gathering trips are half the battle; you then must divvy up the resources you've made it back with among different space station fabricator tasks, each of which consume different amounts and types of materials, and return different resources, such as food, drinkable water, oxygen, and lander fuel.

Failure to manage supply budgets = death of your crew.

Failure to plot out rover excursions = death of your crew.

Failure to calculate a rover's return trajectory to your ship = death of your crew.

Success is 25 orbits away.