Travel By Starlight

A game of fate, choices, and the journeys ahead.

THIS GAME IS IN EARLY ACCESS.  Feedback is very much appreciated.  If you'd like to share your opinions and experiences with this game with the developer, you can reach me via email ( kathang.tawen@gmail.com ) or on Twitter ( @KathangLangit ).

• August 2, 2022 - v0.8.8 - This is an early release of the game- mechanically complete, but missing a few pieces.  Stay tuned for a full release, soon.  I hope.

Travel By Starlight is a collaborative storytelling game, where each story is started, developed, and concluded by drawing a constellation.  Players take the role of Astral Guides, and take turns driving the story of a single character or entity until they reach their journey's end. Gameplay is cyclical and ephemeral: every playthrough involves a new character with their own story.  At the end of every journey, the cycle begins anew.  The characters don't stay, but the truths they uncover about the world remain, and may affect succeeding cycles.  Afterwards, their journeys are immortalized as constellations in the sky, on a canvas that the players can keep, or forget. You will need at least 3 players, a six-sided die, and any medium (a piece of paper, a whiteboard, a digital canvas) upon which all players can draw points and lines.  No other preparation is required, other than an open willingness to come together to tell a story.

Heed these words:  Your aid is unsanctioned, but you have already made your choice. 
You are Astral Guides, tasked with setting the Myriad Stars on their paths along the clockwork.  That was your only charge.  You were never meant to intervene.

You chose to help someone.
You have made them your ward, one of the denizens of the Many Worlds who looked to their skies for a sign, a boon, an inspiration.  There is something that your ward intends to do- but you are NOT divinity.  You do not have the power to grant them success.  You do not have the means to even speak with them.  

You possess no omniscience; you are as fallible as your mortal ward as you face the road ahead.

But could you guide them, somehow, as you do the stars?

Their fate is muddled, nothing is certain.
They are caught in an endless nebula of possibility.  Possibilities that you yourselves will propose.  At every fork in the road you will have to make a choice: What is their next move?  Where shall they go next?  What might they encounter along the way?  

Let these choices bring you clarity.  Keep your ward's intent in mind, follow their path from the sky.

And hope that- when the time is right- your ward will look to the stars. 

And then?
The journey must end, one way or another.  You are Astral Guides, you are not divinity, you have no power to intervene.  Abandon your ward to their constellations; your time with them is past.  It is unlikely that you will ever meet again.

Should you wish it, you may take another ward, from another place, and another time, and from there begin anew.

Seek the truth, heed the fates, and let the stars guide you.

Early Release v0.8.8 ( August 2 2022 )

by KathangLangit ⓒ 2022