🎮 Introduction

Welcome to the captivating world of Moon2999, a video game I created as a gaming enthusiast and independent developer. With several decades of passion in developing and using PC and mobile games, I decided to take on a new challenge in 2020 by merging my passion for space with references to cult series such as Cosmo 1999 , Kill-Joys and The Expanse.

Moon2999 is a strategy game set in a future where humans have colonized most of the planets in the solar system. You are the commander of a human faction and you must manage your colony by constructing buildings, recruiting units and leading battles against other factions and Kragh aliens. You can construct a wide range of buildings, from command centers and military missions to production plants and research centers. Buildings can be upgraded to increase their power and efficiency. You can also recruit troops to protect your colony and attack enemies. There is a significant variety of units available, each with unique skills and different weapons. Battles take place in real time or turn-based and you have to use tactics and strategies to gain an advantage over your opponents. There are also RPG elements, you can upgrade your units by gaining experience on the battlefield.

📢 Unique Concept

In Moon2999, I am committed to providing a truly Free to Play gaming experience. I made the bold decision not to integrate in-app purchases or intrusive ads every 5 minutes. Instead, I give players full control over viewing ads, creating a smooth gaming experience without unexpected interruptions. Game progress in Moon2999 is not impacted by whether or not advertisements are viewed. However, watching ads becomes a way for players to support me financially and continue to grow the game. Rewards are carefully balanced to minimize impacts on progression, providing players with a fair and engaging experience.

A Balanced and Fair PvP Universe

Tired of games where players are crushed by much higher levels, I implemented fair PvP mechanics in Moon2999. It is impossible to attack players with more than one level difference, and only once per day per player. This ensures a competitive and balanced gaming experience, where strategy and skill prevail over raw power.

Cooperation and Corporate Wars

In Moon2999, teamwork goes beyond simple alliances. Players can join powerful corporations, pooling their efforts to face epic Corp Events, where bosses threaten entire systems. Corporations also battle for control of planets and trade routes, opening up opportunities for dominance and influence across the galaxy.

By being part of a corporation, players not only receive a regular salary, but also gain access to a shared economy — exchanging resources, supporting one another, and building collective strength. Cooperation is the key to survival, and the rewards are designed to make every member feel valued.

Start of the game

The game startes with a part of the buildings already built on level 1 as well as a starting batch of resources, tokens and gradions.

The first thing to do is to activate one or more heroes with the tokens by choosing the factions and the status, rank of the heroes

Buildings

The Lunar base is composed of several building, some of them are already built, some other need to be built or upgraded. 

Buildings are providing ressources or missions, a crew member must be assigned on the building for ressource production or to participate to missions

Buildings

The resources of the game

• Regolith : Extracted from the lunar rock, makes it possible to obtain oxygen and LS construction materials based on silica and aluminum
• O2: Oxygen is extracted by the O2 generator from the regolith using electricity and can be stored into the O2 storage warehouse. Lunar regolith is made up of 40–45% percent oxygen by weight, this oxygen is bound up chemically as oxides in the form of minerals or glass. Oxygen extraction is taking place using a method called molten salt electrolysis, involving placing regolith in a metal basket with molten calcium chloride salt to serve as an electrolyte, heated to 950°C. Then passing a current through it causes the oxygen to be extracted from the regolith and migrate across the salt to be collected at an anode. As a bonus this process also converts the regolith into usable metal alloys. Oxygen is used for fuel and life support.
• LS: Light Silicat aluminium is easy to extract from regolith. It is main used to build metallic structures. LS is extracted by the LS generator from the regolith using electricity and can be stored into the LS storage warehouse.
• Proto molecule: Unstable molecule with awesome properties allowing construction acceleration, resource replacement
• Food: Food produced by hydroponic farmsFood is produced by hydroponic farms. Food is a critical for human life support in deep-space exploration. An artificial closed ecosystem must built through integrating efficient higher plant cultivation, animal protein production, urine nitrogen recycling, and bioconversion of solid waste.
• Electricity: Allows to power the various buildings, produced by the solar farm or by the nuclear reactors. Electricity is used to control the room temperature and to power all room equipments. Some rooms can be power off to reduce electricity consumption, if there is not enough electricity a room (random choice) will be automatically power off.
• Recon & Bounty points: Win during events, mission, allows to complete if the team level is not enough for a mission, it is consumable.

The factions

Each faction has different characteristics on exploration, combat, enginering, etc., and do not necessarily get along well with each other. The player having to manage a base will have to choose the members of his crew among 200 heroes according to the desired characteristics and the factions used. Each mission (mining, exploration, etc.) is based on a maximum of one leader, 2 lieutenants and 5 crew members.

When a faction has an affinity with the leader of a mission the lead capacity (command) is increased and it is possible to manage more mission or production crew. Conversely, if the leader and his lieutenants are from the ennemy faction, the lead will be reduced is therefore the mission or production workforce. The number of possible members for a mission is therefore a function of the level of lead but also the level of improvement of the building.

Factions

The Heroes

There are 200 heroes who can be obtained through tokens, heroes have a rank of 1 to 5 and a status, gold, silver and bronze.

They are 30 per faction, 15 bronze, 10 silver, 5 gold and,  6 elites without factions.

The rank of a hero indicates its maximum  level of stats, and its status indicates the bonus for some stats

Heroes

Tokens

There are three kinds of Bronze, Silver, Gold tokens to activate respectively bronze, silver, gold heroes

Tokens are obtained during missions or events. 

To activate a hero simply press the crew button and assign tokens needed to activate, tokens can be partially or completely affected depending on availability . Once used it is impossible to recover the tokens

The game starts with tokens of each rank to activate some bronze, silver or gold heroes.

Gradions

Gradions allow a hero to progress by changing ranks

The change of rank allows the heroes to be trained and increase their stats