The Cold Equations

You play as pilot 8383 on an emergency mission to Woden, where six scientists desperately need the fever serum you're carrying in your cargo. Unfortunately for everyone involved, there's something else in your cargo, and the calculations that filled your tiny ship with fuel didn't take the extra weight into account.

The Cold Equations

This is an adaptation of "The Cold Equations" a 1954 short story by Tom Godwin. "The Cold Equations" is an excellent science fiction short story that really evokes a strong emotional response. It's probably my favorite sci-fi short story, but I admittedly haven't read very many. Although I have adapted the story, every line of text in this game was written by me, by hand, during the compo. There might be some exchanges in dialogue that are very close because they left a strong impression upon me, but I strove to make this an original adaptation. For those who have read the short story, you may notice that the character names have been changed. It was an accident at first, but I decided to stick with my misremembered names.

Controls

The Cold Equations is controlled entirely by clicking with the mouse. It works very similar to a visual novel. If you're stuck at all, try investigating your cargo. If you're on the desktop version, you can hit 'c' to take a screenshot if you need to show me something. It gets saved in your data path, wherever that is (on Windows that's \LocalLow\Cobalt Sky\The Cold Equations\ for me, but your experience may vary).

Tools

Engine Unity 2018.1.0f2

Art Paint.NET and Blender

Sound Audacity and Bfxr

Media

https://youtu.be/nxJFlYb1ZnI