There are indeed long term goals. Ranks have a pretty big impact in changing the dynamics of the game; a rank 20 player will have a dramatically different gameplay experience than a level 40 player.

Once you visit all the locations, you’ll go back to the very first island you landed on…and you’ll notice how much it has changed since you were there before. It’s pretty neato.

The audio design was something that was very, very important to me from the start. The music was slightly glitched in the video (it was supposed to fade out quietly during the last hour instead of stopping completely) but there’s some really great music in there, done by Jonathan Geer. The “inspirational” music that you saw on the teaser trailer has been thrown out for Geer’s work instead.

Thanks everyone for all the comments!

@Xot originally environmental impact was going to play a part in the game (such as keeping your global emissions down.) But I went ahead and axed it for the full game…mainly because it added another layer of challenge that the user wouldn’t necessarily go for (such as shutting down machines when your pollution is too high…and forfeiting the objective in the process.)

There are still some elements of the environment at play though, such as water being too polluted to fish in, though these are mostly random.