History VideoGame / WakingMars

* MultipleEndings: [[spoiler:The Sentients ask Liang to make a choice for them. To be able to carry out your choice you must raise Core Power high enough for the Sentient's machinery to fully function.. Then:]]

** [[spoiler:High Power ending (leave): You choose for the Sentients to activate their starship and leave Mars behind, by standing next to the left-hand sculpture. Once the ship starts up, you [[IChooseToStay choose to stay]] with the Sentients, by standing on the platform next to them after the cutscene to enter stasis, while Amani sadly tells you goodbye.]]
** [[spoiler:High Power ending (stay): You choose for the Sentients to activate their starship and leave Mars behind, by standing next to the left-hand sculpture. Once the ship starts up, you must leave the Helm immediately. After the cutscene you rejoin Amani at Base Camp.]]

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the Low Power ending, you construct a biological greenhouse/biodome on the surface of Mars for the Zoa to survive in. However, the magma maintaining the life-giving heat below ground is still cooling off. In the Full Power ending, you get put in stasis and taken on a rocket ride by the Sentients to who knows where... [[FridgeLogic but Liang still has to eat, right?]]]]

* MissionControl: Amani, Liang's partner, and ART

** As it turns out, ART's annoying voice and roundabout manner of speech is the result of a prank played on the mission before launch. Someone took ART's more modern linguistic subroutine and replaced it with its counterpart from the 2040's, fifty years before the present time.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Amani and ART again.

'''''[[http://www.tigerstylegames.com/ Waking Mars]]''''' is a puzzle game where you, a scientist/astronaut named Liang, are tasked with researching life on Mars that was discovered four years prior. Said life is living underground, because where else could organic life possibly live on Mars?

Gameplay consists of throwing seeds of the resident plantlike life, called Zoa, at suitable patches of soil to grow new specimens. [[TemptingFate Sounds easy, right?]] Well, in order to progress you have to grow your miniature ecosystem enough to raise Biomass, which opens biological doors to other parts of the cavern. And this can't be done by simply throwing whatever at wherever. The player must utilize the unique interactions between the various species of Zoa in order to optimize and balance the ecosystem while maximizing biomass. But as Liang delves deeper into the caves, it becomes evident that there is something much bigger than some alien plants sleeping beneath the surface.

* StarfishAliens: [[spoiler:Later on in the game you discover a race of ancient Martian beings simply called the 'Sentients'. You wouldn't recognize them as being intelligent if you weren't looking for it.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Despite 0CT0's pleasant demeanor and sophisticated avatar, contrasted with ART's CaptainObvious tendencies, simple smiley-face avatar, and malfunctioning grammar, the former freely admits that the latter is by far his intellectual superior. This makes sense, as 0CT0 is a relatively simple probe and ART is the core AI for the entire mission.

* IbfuscatingStupidity: Despite 0CT0's pleasant demeanor and sophisticated avatar, contrasted with ART's CaptainObvious tendencies, simple smiley-face avatar, and malfunctioning grammar, the former freely admits that the latter is by far his intellectual superior. This makes sense, as 0CT0 is a relatively simple probe and ART is the core AI for the entire mission.

* [[spoiler: CoolStarship: Not only is the Sentients' starship the size of Lethe Cavern (i.e. the entire playable area of the game), it's also ''made of quartz''.]]

* [[spoiler:DyingRace: The Sentients are very much this, having been forced to enter stasis underneath the Martian surface due to some cataclysm that turned Mars into the red rock that it is today.]]

* [[spoiler: StarfishAliens: Later on in the game you discover a race of ancient Martian beings simply called the 'Sentients'. You wouldn't recognize them as being intelligent if you weren't looking for it.]]

* CoolStarship: [[spoiler:Not only is the Sentients' starship the size of Lethe Cavern (i.e. the entire playable area of the game), it's also ''made of quartz''.]]

* DyingRace: [[spoiler:The Sentients are very much this, having been forced to enter stasis underneath the Martian surface due to some cataclysm that turned Mars into the red rock that it is today.]]

* StarfishAliens: [[spoiler:Later on in the game you discover a race of ancient Martian beings simply called the 'Sentients'. You wouldn't recognize them as being intelligent if you weren't looking for it.]]

Gameplay consists of throwing seeds of the resident plantlike life, called Zoa, at suitable patches of soil to grow new specimens. [[TemptingFate Sounds easy, right?]] Well, in order to progress you have to grow your miniature ecosystem enough to raise Biomass, which opens biological doors to other parts of the cavern. And this can't be done by simply throwing whatever at wherever. The player must utilize the unique interactions between the various species of Zoa in order to optimize and balance the ecosystem while maximizing biomass. But as Liang gets deeper into the caves, it becomes evident that there is something much bigger than some alien plants sleeping beneath the surface.

Gameplay consists of throwing seeds of the resident plantlike life, called Zoa, at suitable patches of soil to grow new specimens. [[TemptingFate Sounds easy, right?]] Well, in order to progress you have to grow your miniature ecosystem enough to raise Biomass, which opens biological doors to other parts of the cavern. And this can't be done by simply throwing whatever at wherever. The player must utilize the unique interactions between the various species of Zoa in order to optimize and balance the ecosystem while maximizing biomass. But it gets better when the story starts becoming more and more interesting the deeper you go into the depths of the caves.

%% Please do forgive me if this article is messy or otherwise improper, this is my first full article. I did Wiki Word multiple articles to this page, though.

'''''[[http://www.tigerstylegames.com/ Waking Mars]]''''' is a puzzle game where you, a scientist/astronaut named Liang, is tasked with researching life on Mars that was discovered four years prior. Said life is, of course, living underground, because where else could organic life possibly live on Mars?
Gameplay consists of throwing seeds of the resident plantlike life, called Zoa, at suitable patches of soil to grow new specimens. [[TemptingFate Sounds easy, right?]] Well, in order to progress you have to grow your miniature ecosystem enough to raise Biomass, which opens biological doors to other parts of the cavern. And this can't be done by simply throwing whatever at wherever. The player must utilize the unique interactions between the various species of Zoa in order to optimize and balance the ecosystem while maximizing biomass. But it gets better when the story starts becoming more and more interesting the deeper you go into the depths of the caves.

{{Needs Wiki Magic Love}}.

!!Waking mars provides examples of:
* [[spoiler:{{Starfish Aliens}}: Later on in the game you discover a race of ancient Martian beings simply called the 'Sentients'. You wouldn't recognize them as being intelligent if you weren't looking for it.]]
* {{Plant Aliens}}: Not technically, but the Zoa are quite similar to plants.
* [[spoiler:{{Dying Race}}: The Sentients are very much this, having been forced to enter stasis underneath the Martian surface due to some cataclysm that turned Mars into the red rock that it is today.]]

Gameplay consists of throwing seeds of the resident plantlike life, called Zoa, at suitable patches of soil to grow new specimens. [[TemptingFate Sounds easy, right?]] Well, in order to progress you have to grow your miniature ecosystem enough to raise Biomass, which opens biological doors to other parts of the cavern. And this can't be done by simply throwing whatever at wherever. The player must utilize the unique interactions between the various species of Zoa in order to optimize and balance the ecosystem while maximizing biomass. But it gets better when the story starts becoming more and more interesting the deeper you go into the depths of the caves.

Needs {{Wiki Magic}}.

* [[spoiler:{{StarfishAliens}}: Later on in the game you discover a race of ancient Martian beings simply called the 'Sentients'. You wouldn't recognize them as being intelligent if you weren't looking for it.]]
* {{PlantAliens}}: Not technically, but the Zoa are quite similar to plants.
* [[spoiler:{{DyingRace}}: The Sentients are very much this, having been forced to enter stasis underneath the Martian surface due to some cataclysm that turned Mars into the red rock that it is today.]]

[[spoiler:{{StarfishAliens}}: Later on in the game you discover a race of ancient Martian beings simply called the 'Sentients'. You wouldn't recognize them as being intelligent if you weren't looking for it.]]
{{PlantAliens}}: Not technically, but the Zoa are quite similar to plants.
[[spoiler:{{DyingRace}}: The Sentients are very much this, having been forced to enter stasis underneath the Martian surface due to some cataclysm that turned Mars into the red rock that it is today.]]

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