The Disaster of Project Domus Nova
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Project: Domus Nova's goal was to send a ship out to recently charted space with the hopes of building a new habitat station around a hospitable moon.
Two thousand brave souls ventured out on the multi-year long trip to make this project a reality.
Unfortunately, the spaceship never reached its goal, and the crew was not heard from again...
You take on the role of an advanced recovery team member whose goal is to find whatever information they can about what happened on-board the ship, and hopefully, find out what happened to the people on-board.
This is my submission for Amare Game Jam 2022.
Totaling over six thousand words, I was very fortunate to have all these wonderful people help out on the project:
Credits:
Room 55 - Written by Rascal (Find more at https://rascaldevworks.itch.io)
Room 201 - Written by Esh
Room 303 - Written by Terral (Find more at https://starbeastinferno.itch.io)
Room 404 - Written by Melon (Find more at https://rivertune-games.itch.io)
Room 700 - Written by WholesomeWraith (Find more at https://wholesomewraith.itch.io)
Engine Room/Engines - Written by PMscenarios (Find more at https://pmscenarios.itch.io)
Botanical Lab/Lab - Written by Afuera (Find more at https://afuera.itch.io)
Further away spot/Hiding Spot/Nook - Written by Naarel (Find more at https://naarel.itch.io)
Narration/In-Between Segements - Katelynn Parsec (Find more at https://katelynn-parsec.itch.io)
Logo Artist - Pandora Alcorn ( Find more at https://euphonia.itch.io/)
Music - flossysounds (Find more at https://flossysoundsllc.itch.io , flossysounds.weebly.com)
GUI Template - NovelKit, with edits by Afuera ( Find more at https://novelkit.itch.io/)
Programming - Afuera, PMscenarios, and Katelynn Parsec
Project Lead, Background Artist, and Editor - Katelynn Parsec
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Install instructions
It's built in Ren'Py.
Just download the zip file, extract the file, and run the executable.
Comments
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I have such an itch for games that just let you wander abandoned, gloomy places. This vn is perfect for that. Really good industrial atmosphere (duh since it's a space ship XD) and reading the journal entries and logs is a very sad but interesting experience.
It was really cool to learn after the fact that each room was written by someone else. The protagonist is examining each room with a forensic, archival goal, hoping to learn more context about the wreck. And the project itself is going to become a time capsule for the personal tastes of each writer, what they wanted to convey with their characters and what their idea of tragedy would be.