Press kit

Idlenaut

Everything you need to write about the game. All art here may be used in coverage of Idlenaut. All screenshots and footage are captured from an alpha build and are subject to change.

Description

An incremental space-industry game set in a simulated star system. Extract resources, fabricate goods, and build automated Space Force fleets to defend your planets from enemy sieges. Ascend to a newly generated star system and keep your permanent upgrades.

Idlenaut is played in real time across a top-down, procedurally generated star system, and every part of its economy is visibly simulated. Cargo ships fly their routes, extraction ships haul space rock and particles home, and a Dyson swarm assembles around the star one sail at a time.

Features

  • Industry. Per-planet production chains of miners, refiners and fabricators, powered by solar, wind, coal, steam, nuclear and orbital solar plants.
  • Ships that actually fly. Transport, extraction and discovery ships fly curved orbital paths between the planets.
  • The Dyson swarm. Solar sails launched into rings around the star fire orbital rays at the planets they face.
  • Threats. Enemy carriers arrive in waves; automated Space Force fleets hunt, dogfight and regroup without piloting.
  • Ascend. Quantum credits buy permanent upgrades that carry into a newly generated star system.

Teaser

Watch the teaser on YouTube. Alpha footage, subject to change.

Logos and art

Key artJPG, 3648×1184CapsuleJPG, 1232×706

Screenshots

Captured from the alpha build. The interface and art are still changing, so check back here for current shots before publishing.

A developed star system with the interface openJPG, 2560×1440The production board, with a planet’s miners, refiners and fabricatorsJPG, 2560×1440The research map partway through a runJPG, 2560×1440The transport board, with each cargo ship’s route, cargo and statusJPG, 2560×1440The facilities board for a planet’s structuresJPG, 2560×1440The ascension constellation between star systemsJPG, 2560×1440A Dyson ring of solar sails around the star, beaming power to a planetJPG, 1920×1080Space Force fighters breaking up an enemy carrier siegeJPG, 1920×1080Extraction ships harvesting a glowing antimatter anomalyJPG, 1920×1080An enemy carrier exploding under Space Force fireJPG, 1920×1080A moon above its planet’s horizonJPG, 1920×1080A ship docked at a moonJPG, 1920×1080Extraction ships mining an asteroid beltJPG, 1920×1080An orbital ray reaching a moonJPG, 1920×1080

About Blackonix

Blackonix is the independent game studio of Eric Burns, a software architect with more than twenty years of programming experience, based in Chicago. Idlenaut is its first game. blackonix.com