A New and Beautiful World
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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EDIT: A fun little question for people who played through both routes- which one did you prefer? Leave a comment below.
EDIT: As of the 30th of August, 2014, the Post-Compo version of A New and Beautiful World is now available to download at my site! It has music and art, so, unless you really, really like blackness and silence, I'd probably play it instead of the original version. http://paperlance.blogspot.com/2014/08/game-new-and-beautiful-world.html
The story follows two brothers and their father throughout their lives together and apart in the near future, starting in the year 2074. In this future, all of the Earth is governed by a utopian government known only as the Empire.
The family goes to visit the famed Imperial Air Show, a yearly festival put on by the Empire to showcase the latest in spacecraft technology, and, later that night, they see stars in the sky for the first time in their lives. This sparks a desire in one brother to become the pilot of an interstellar colonization vessel, and in the other to dedicate his life to creating 'new and beautiful things.'
The lives of the two brothers will intertwine as the story follows them throughout all their lives and all of time and space.
There are two possible endings for the game.
This is a short (40-60 minute) text-only visual novel that I wrote and developed within 48 hours for Ludum Dare 30.
It was created using the Ren'Py visual novel development engine, available here at http://www.renpy.org/.
EDIT: For some reason, Google Chrome has labeled all the download links to my game malicious for some people; I assure you that this is a false positive, and that there is nothing in the download that could possibly harm you. You can scan every single file with your anti-virus, if you'd like. To download the game, please go to your downloads (CTRL + J) and press "Clear malicious file."
Also, with the post-compo version now available to download, I've used a different file host, so it may cooperate better with Chrome.
EDIT: As of the 30th of August, 2014, the Post-Compo version of A New and Beautiful World is now available to download at my site! It has music and art, so, unless you really, really like blackness and silence, I'd probably play it instead of the original version. http://paperlance.blogspot.com/2014/08/game-new-and-beautiful-world.html
The story follows two brothers and their father throughout their lives together and apart in the near future, starting in the year 2074. In this future, all of the Earth is governed by a utopian government known only as the Empire.
The family goes to visit the famed Imperial Air Show, a yearly festival put on by the Empire to showcase the latest in spacecraft technology, and, later that night, they see stars in the sky for the first time in their lives. This sparks a desire in one brother to become the pilot of an interstellar colonization vessel, and in the other to dedicate his life to creating 'new and beautiful things.'
The lives of the two brothers will intertwine as the story follows them throughout all their lives and all of time and space.
There are two possible endings for the game.
This is a short (40-60 minute) text-only visual novel that I wrote and developed within 48 hours for Ludum Dare 30.
It was created using the Ren'Py visual novel development engine, available here at http://www.renpy.org/.
EDIT: For some reason, Google Chrome has labeled all the download links to my game malicious for some people; I assure you that this is a false positive, and that there is nothing in the download that could possibly harm you. You can scan every single file with your anti-virus, if you'd like. To download the game, please go to your downloads (CTRL + J) and press "Clear malicious file."
Also, with the post-compo version now available to download, I've used a different file host, so it may cooperate better with Chrome.