Vivere Computatrum

As civilization crumbled, your monastery kept safe a laptop containing the combined knowledge of humanity.

Now the laptop’s batteries are failing and you must transcribe its contents into a library of books, keeping that knowledge alive for future generations. If the laptop turns off nobody remembers the password to log back in again…

Gather resources, trade for parts, and expand your monastery to fulfill your goal… Vivere Computatrum!

Controls

• WASD to move camera
• Click on monks to select, then click a building to set and prioritize a job.
• Click on job in monk’s priority queue to remove it
• Click buttons to open menus
• Press Space or click red X to exit menus
• Ctrl+Shift+R to restart

Help and Hints

• Monks are only human, once they become hungry or tired they will stop working on any job you give them and seek out food or a bed. If there are no meals in the dining room or free beds they will sit idle and unresponsive until their needs are met.
• If all your monks are idle even though they are assigned jobs, then they are probably starving and out of food. Monks can only perform the Eat or Sleep tasks while starving so this is a loss state - there is nobody to charge the laptop. Press Ctrl+Shift+R to restart (the starvation ‘Defeat’ screen is fixed in the post-jam release).
• Monks will perform their highest priority job until they run out of work, then check their later priorities.
• A monk with a job that requires an item (for example grain for bread) will seek out that item.
• Once a monk fetches an item required for a job they cannot be interrupted until the job is complete (except book transcription). After the task is complete they will follow their new job list.
• The Charge Battery action requires an empty battery, which are “produced” at the laptop room. Likewise, Monitor Batteries moves charged batteries from bikes to laptop. Both jobs are required to keep the laptop running.
• The Laptop Room and Library each have two job types that can be set by clicking on different halves of the room.
• To sell an item in the Trade screen a monk must move it to the Trade Post structure. Click “Take from Post” to toggle the Inventory mode to “Move to Post” and assign a monk to the Trade Post to have them gather the items.
• Transcription requires a monk with mastery of a skill and a Blank Book bought via trade

Post-Jam

Vivere Computatrum was created for Ludam Dare 46. The post jam version contain some small bugfixes and tweaks to make the interface clearer. It is the recommended version.

Ludam Dare page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/vivere-computatrum