You are a xenoarchaeologist who is marooned on a deserted planet. You are the first human to have ever stepped foot upon these lands. But even in the face of astounding possibility, the weight of longing for a way home is always upon your shoulders. Build a base, explore the lands, creatures, plants, and ruins. Discover the mystery the ancients left behind and piece their story together to reveal what happened long ago on this strange planet full of history and wonder.
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- Single Player
- 2D isometric
- 2 person development team
- made using the Godot game engine.
Open world with multiple biomes, a large variety of plants, geology, animals and ancient ruins
An original full storyline that unfolds as you play
80+ unique recipes. Better food improves player well-being and performance
Craft tools, buildings, furniture, farms, and more
Grow a variety of crops right at your homebase
Uncover relics of an ancient alien civilization to discover who they were and what happened to them.
Explore an alien landscape with freedom to wander and take your time. Uncover the map as you go to reveal jungles, mountains, alien architecture, and a wide array of minerals and plants with useful resources to gather. Discover ruins and artifacts. Follow clues to unfold the story through different biomes to secret areas. Unlock new crafting and cooking recipes. Learn about the plants and animals.
n Lost in the Stars of the Ancients you are a xeno-archeologist. You find yourself crashed and stranded on a distant, unexplored planet. Just as your own story has become one of survival, loss, and deep longing for home, with no way to get back, you discover there are other stories that hide in the landscape stretched out before you. These tales are ancient and immersive and take you on a journeys that lead to places that are delightful and unexpected. Their stories not only provide a welcome distraction from your desperate situation, they just may be the thing that saves you from total despair. Xeno-archeologist - Someone who studies non earth cultures
Enjoy a wide variety of recipes that you uncover through exploration. Gather resources from the alien landscape to make food that resembles what you are used to eating, or create food that is entirely different and new. Use your oven and your kettle to make wondrous things to eat and drink. Cooking will strongly benefit your success in the game along with giving you the simple pleasure of trying new things and unlocking multiple tiers of recipes. If you like cooking simulation games, you will love the time and attention we put into this aspect of the game.
You start in the world with some basic supplies – but you can improve your experience by building improved facilities for yourself. Crafting allows you to build a comfortable and functional home base. Starting with raw materials you can turn them into simple products like boards and screws which then can be combined into more complex items. Build a proper house, a workshop, an outdoor kitchen, and farms. Furnish your buildings with comfortable and practical items. Crafting items and buildings makes your experience more enjoyable and opens the door to more possibilities.
Build up to 12 farm plots to grow a variety of crops. Watch your seeds grow into harvestable plants. Use the harvested items to cook and craft with. With a huge array of cooking recipes, farming will greatly reduce the amount of time and effort needed to gather the required ingredients.
As you explore the landscape, you will discover ancient ruins that hold secrets to be revealed around every corner. Enjoy the subtly unique architectural and artistic styles you find in weather-worn and decayed villages long empty. When you find some ancient remnant, your little archeology drone will help you map the site and look for anything that might be hidden. You will also discover a language long dead, but your wrist computer will help translate the language if you find enough samples. What clues will you uncover of the ancient people's culture, technology and history? You uncover their story a piece at a time and maybe help heal yourself along the way.
You step out of your escape pod under a Prussian Blue sky that is heavy with high clouds. The plants and objects around you cast dulled shadows upon the ground. A breeze stirs, and the sounds of the creatures blend together to form a pleasant symphony of shrieks, murmurs, and something like birdsong. Utterly lost, with no way home, the comfortable temperature and landscape before you seems out of place with your own despair. It offers embrace when all you want is to get back into space and head home.
As you explore this world, a mystery unfolds, and curiosity pulls you towards it. At first, it gives you something to do, something to take your mind off the horror of being alone in the universe, but as time goes on, the story becomes part of your own story, as the landscape of the planet, and the landscape of your heart begin to find common ground. Your base becomes a foundation for exploration that leads you to uncover ruins that are centuries old, find creatures and plants you'd never imagined, create wonderful foods you'd never before tasted, and down paths with secret entrances that lead to the center of the mystery itself, and beyond.
Welcome to Lost in the Stars of the Ancients. Your journey has just begun.
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Music
Dray Potts has been a professional musician for over 30 years. Dray wrote and performed the theme song in their preferred format - a 12 string guitar and voice. The theme song captures the feeling of longing and loneliness one might experience in the situation the player finds themselves in during the game. It will be recorded at a professional studio, with multiple vocal and guitar tracks. Dray is very excited to get back into a studio to do some recording.
We did not want to use the theme song in the game itself, because a song with lyrics can be distracting to some players. Dray decided to do instrumental songs for gameplay instead, and went outside their comfort zone to do so. Dray does not really play any other instruments, but was inspired to create the instrumental music on their old Roland XP-80 keyboard. Using a Focusrite USB corded mixer, and a free version of Cakewalk, Dray sat down and composed some songs in real time and recorded them as they were being composed. Each song has multiple tracks, but this was not difficult with the home studio set-up we arranged for this project.
Dray is not sure how they managed to make music with the Roland, having never taken piano lessons. If the 'record' button was not pushed correctly, the song was lost, because Dray doesn't really remember exactly what they were doing in each track, and can't play the same thing twice with any real degree of accuracy. However, something must have gone very right, because the songs are beautifully woven threads of sound and feeling that we feel will enhance the player's experience and add ambiance that otherwise would not be present. Dray has also found a new musical interest in their keyboard, and plans to see where this new path leads in the future.