This ship is a museum
This is loosely based of two of my favorite stories by Stanisław Lem, "Opowiadanie Pirxa" ("Pirx's Tale") and "Terminus". It's my entry into the "museum" bitsy jam, as well as the fourth game in my alphabet superset challenge - this time the theme was "drudgery".
As always, walk with arrows/WASD/swiping and bump into things to interact. And here are some thoughts on the development process.
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This is really cool!! keep it up my guy! :)
Can't believe my ship didn't work properly! Good story
"Pirx's Tale" is one of my favorite sci-fi short stories. You've done a good job adapting it to Bitsy format, thank you for that!
P.S.: writing these lines from Lem's hometown, Lviv. Thought it's worth mentioning for some reason :)
Oooh, the impact of seeing the shape getting closer in the window was so cool... what a great little story.
I like how you packed this story into such a dense space. Maybe Bitsy is actually a really good tool to build a small scale drama?
Thank you! I treat bitsy games a bit as comics, either 3-4 panel strips or short books. It's definitely possible to fit a compelling story in this tiny format, that you can complete in one sitting. I mean, I'm just a low key scribbler, but people have been doing amazing things with this format!
That was great, I loved the movement with the ladders and the way interactions with the stations change day to day. Then the ending! Well worth it.
Thanks! The ending is almost straight from "Pirx's Tale", although the issue there was an incompetent crew of drunks and misfits rather than faulty equipment. The idea of taking an ancient spaceship for its last voyage to the junkyard is from "Terminus", but that story is so much more. I highly recommend both, especially "Terminus" - that one is almost a horror, it's very chilling.