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Template:Stub Subsurface is a 2D resource management game being developed by Undertow Games. The game is currently in an alpha release, which will be followed by a full commercial release in 1-2 years.
Development
Plot
Subsurface's time period takes place several hundred years in a future, during an era where humanity is technologically advanced enough to achieve space travel.
The setting of the game is on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, which has become colonized during the space age. Due to the surface of the planet being too irradiated for survival, colonies and outposts have been established under the layer of ice which covers the surface of the moon. Beneath the ice layer is a vast ocean used as a transport network between colonies and as a source for natural resources. The ocean also allowed for the creation of transportation shafts which interconnect the colonies throughout the moon.
The ocean itself is inhabited by a number of aquatic creatures, as well as natural forming cave systems.
Gameplay
Controls
WASD - move
Shift - run
E - activate, deactivate or pick up a highlighted item
Right click - aim with the equipped item
Left click - use equipped item
F3 - open/close the console
GUI
Inventory
The inventory consists of 10 slots. The five slots from the left are for equipped items; one slot for head, torso, legs and both hands. The other five slots are for any unequipped items.
Items can be equipped by dragging them into an appropriate slot on the left. Some items take up more than one slot: the railgun shells for example require both hands to carry, and the diving suit takes up the head, torso and leg slots.
