I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (tuxdb.com)

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Big news - I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a finalist for Excellence in Narrative at the IGF (Independent Games Festival) (plus an honorable mention for Visual Arts!).
Not only that, our game has also been nominated for Best Narrative in the GDCA (Game Developers Choice Awards - these are like the Oscars of video games)
AND we're a finalist for the Social Impact Award in the GDCAs.
These are the big ones; the awards that devs (speaking of myself here) spend their entire career working towards. It is an incredible honor to be nominated. The IGF also features an audience award, so jump in and cast your vote here! Since our narrative design is getting so much attention, here's an article I wrote for gamedeveloper.com about The Narrative Octopus of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. If you'd like to play around with Exo's custom scripting language yourself, I've made a rough version of Exoscript open source on Github. - Sarah nyaa

[ 2023-01-27 12:59:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Northway Games Developer

Finji Publisher

2022-08-25 Release

RPG Simulation Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 48

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Overwhelmingly Positive (3172 reviews)

http://exocolonist.com

Steam Store

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Exocolonist is still in development.

Growing up in humanity's first extrasolar colony, you and your family are refugees from Earth flung into a new world of wonder and danger. You have your whole life ahead of you: Will you become an engineer and bring modern technology to this jurassic planet? Or cultivate the alien plants and live in harmony with exotic nature? Battle the massive beasts which rule Vertumna, or nurture future generations of humans?

Your decisions matter; whether to study, learn to play an instrument, obey your parents or sneak out to explore the hazardous jungle. Adolescence is full of awkwardness and clumsy mistakes, but everything you learn will make you - and your colony - stronger. Your memories, decisions and friendships will be at your side when strife is near, becoming collectible cards used for everything from taking a math test to escaping the jaws of a wild snapbladder.

A strange connection to an orbiting wormhole causes you to remember events from your past lives. It'll take many lives to find every ending and ultimately a way to save both your colony and the planet.

Exocolonist is going to have this great stuff:

800 story events - too much to experience in one lifetime, but luckily you'll have many.
250 battle cards - loosely based on poker rules, make the best hand from cards like Up to your Knees in Mud (adjacent cards get +1) and Testing on Humans (cards to the right become blue)
30 endings - find every way to die, aim to become Governor one day, or live a simple life as a botanist and let others take care of the monster-slaying.
25 jobs - goof off behind the counter as a depot clerk, or join a survey team and chart the Valley of Vertigo.
15 skills - will you focus on empathy and organization, or train up your toughness and bravery?
10 dateable characters - dogboys, aliens, hot politicians and cold-as-ice killers. Can you guess what your childhood friends will grow up to be?

Plus all the basics: