The Passage of Stars (17k words w/o code) on Storyfall

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The Passage of Stars - Play Link

I have always wanted to make a space trader style IF, with cringe Sci-Fi references, although I do know Sci-Fi generally isn’t popular here. Anyway, I was trying out another IF platform and made this short game. It is 17k words (didn’t count code since the platform has little code).

This is also an interest check post of sorts. If anyone likes this concept and wants to see more of it, I am happy to write an expanded version in choicescript. This is a small but complete project which I wrote for one of Storyfall’s jams.

Buy a ship, pick a sidekick and fly to the planet of New Baltimore while making a profit along the way. Buy stuff, trade and fight pirates. Find romance from one of five options in an adventure among the stars. A space management and exploration game.

Romances:

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Greg Bolton is a weapons systems officer. Put him on any ship, and he will make it more of a killing machine, equivalent to a 30 point attack bonus. (Even if it doesn’t have any weapons- don’t ask him how.)

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Candy Tsang (Tsang Pui Yin) is a smuggler. If you happen to be carrying anything illegal, like metal pipes and recreational substances, she knows a few tricks to hide it from law-enforcement scanners.

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Miranda Wright is a logistics expert. With her efficient packing techniques, she will be able to fit extra cargo on your ship, equivalent to three extra units.

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John Jeffers is an electronics engineer. With his technical skills, he will increase the shielding on your ship, equivalent to 150 points of shielding.

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Faye (Faina Melnyk) is a former merchant captain with plenty of financial connections. If you take a loan, she will be able to negotiate an addtional and free 300,000 CR to your account.

Image Credits

Cover art was made with Pixabay and used under the Pixabay license.

Faction Images were made with coamaker at coamaker.com under a non-commercial license.

Character portraits made by IF THEN ELSE and used under a non-commercial license.

https://ifthenelse-interactive.itch.io/scifi-citizen-ibaraki-portraits

https://ifthenelse-interactive.itch.io/sci-vikings-dany-portraits

https://ifthenelse-interactive.itch.io/scifi-diplomat

https://ifthenelse-interactive.itch.io/scifi-citizen-goetia-portraits

https://ifthenelse-interactive.itch.io/scifi-bodysuit-raymond-portraits

Spaceships taken from itch.io.

https://foozlecc.itch.io/void-fleet-pack-2 (CC0)

https://foozlecc.itch.io/void-fleet-pack-3 (CC0)

https://rehandev.itch.io/280-mega-pixel-space-ship-pack-2d (Personal/Commercial License)

Note on AI:

This game does not contain any AI-generated prose or art. (But if you see anything AI generated, let me know, but it should be clear.)

Storyfall is quite heavy on AI art, but I am working to make my own releases on that platform as well as CoG/HG and itch as free of generative AI as possible. I have also written to the site owner to request for an AI-free label for games without AI use.

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The game timed out for me move on from buying cargo.

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Was this at the space station? Or was this when buying cargo from a merchant in space? Does refreshing the page and continuing fix the issue?

Won’t lie, this platform is still not very stable, and I lost a lot of hair just trying to make a 17k word game on it.

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After finishing buying cargo and launching for New Baltimore. Also the transition between pages is very slow. Maybe 3-5 seconds to load every page.

Reloading fixed the issue though. Thanks I misread it and though it was starting me over from the beginning.

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I’ll likely release an itch version as well, probably next week or so. If anyone wants a longer version of this in choicescript, the offer still stands.

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I chose Faye, and it didn’t add the 300k.

In addition, not at all a fan of the storyfall format. Text takes forever to load

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Did you take a loan? The 300k will only be credited if you did. Otherwise, I might need to check the code again.

Yep, it’s a problem. (Also takes forever to load when using the editor.) I might port this project to choicescript or twine down the line.

If they sort out the html export, I might try using the faster servers on itch.io.

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I did not take a loan. I had 300k left (1 million for ship, 200k for upgrades), then chose Faye, so should have then had 600k available for cargo

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Her 300k bonus will only be credited to your account if you take a loan. Otherwise, her bonus will be wasted. I could rewrite this to make it an unconditional bonus.

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Fixed a bug related to the gift shop scene (the romance choice) not triggering. (I could have sworn this bug didn’t exist), but anyway, if anyone was unable to initiate romance, it should work now.

(As much as I complain about choicescript, I have to admit it’s still more reliable.)

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