Oasis of Lost Hope is a game where fertile ground is steadily consumed by dark,

barren land called blight. Water helps defend an area from being consumed, but

reserves are finite. The player needs to collect ore to build more irrigation

towers and delay doom for a few more seconds. Yet one thing is certain: the

days of fertile land are counted.

The game is an entry for the Ludum Dare 50 Jam, the theme of which was "Delay

the Inevitable". It has been developed by setzer22 and Bromeon and

[open-sourced on GitHub][oasis-gh]. The game is built on top of godot-rust

alongside GDScript. The Rust language is not exactly known for fast

prototyping, but with a slightly less safety-conservative fork of godot-rust,

the game jam experience was surprisingly smooth. When modeling mechanics such

as the expanding blight or the water pipe network, Rust really showed its

strength as a strongly typed and fast language.

[oasis-gh]: https://github.com/Bromeon/LudumDare50