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About the Story
You are heading back to your ship, your navvisor blinking hard data at you as you look around planetside -- mineral deposits, heat signatures, distant planets -- when you decide, for a moment, to turn it all off, and pause to look up instead at the glittering expanse of starry sky above.
It's disconcerting, all of this: the surface, the stars, and the vast spaces between. But out there, a speck in the sky, is your objective: the center of the galaxy.
(A Twine game about space exploration. Estimated playtime around 50 minutes.)
Awards
26th Place (tie) - 23rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2017)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:   Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
A great mid-sized Twine space exploration/trading game, October 21, 2017*I beta-tested this game, and I deeply enjoyed it.
It's a twine game with some really nice use of color and a cool title screen.
You venture from world to world, doing some grinding of resources, and buying different equipment.
Other parts of the game include more room-to-room travel and taking and using items. There are story interludes, and so on.
It was a little shorter than I hoped for, but I'm still giving it 5 stars.
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IFComp 2017 Review: Transient Skies by dgtziea
...just a Skinner box, so ultimately unsatisfying. Travel is about the journey, not the destination, but this is a journey without the wondrous text of Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, and without the stunning destinations of Superluminal Vagrant Twin.
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First Publication Date: October 1, 2017
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Twine
IFID: 737AA900-411F-4275-9ADD-391C03FDD0BE
TUID: ehyw0scghipkbd1j
Transient Skies on IFDB
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