Hey everyone! 👋

Cool (I hope) stuff coming up!

The release candidate version of "Stellar Reflections" - a Visual Novel Sci-Fi Short Story - is ready and I feel confident we will be able to release it on December 10th!
There will be no demo, no early access - I will just drop the whole thing here on Itch.io, and you can enjoy it for free :).

A bunch of info about the VN is available on its dedicated page, but I'll summarize it here once more, for everybody's convenience:

World and setting

The VN is set in a fairly distant future, where Earth and Mars are used exclusively as mining facilities, while most of human population resides in space stations around the planets and the Moon. The world is governed by a centralized, autocratic government managing most of life choices for every existing human.
The action takes place entirely on board an old and decrepit space station.

Main characters

Protagonist - Aurelia
The VN will feature a female protagonist, Aurelia, a nobody who spends her days at a bar, playing games, or at her junkyard job. The story begins when the government makes a decision directly affecting her life, and she's far from being a fan. The VN will show her dealing with it, growing, and changing in the process.

Heroine - Pixie
Aurelia comes to meet Pixie by accident, and soon discovers they can help each other with their respective problems.

Bartender
A semi-friend of Aurelia (but can she really trust him?). Listens to her problems and offers advice as a mentor figure.

Technical

Typical info that all of us VN geeks like to know before reading:

- 3 endings: bad, neutral, and good. Late branching plot depending on readers' choices.
- Age rating: no idea :D. There's no sexual content and no nudity, but there are sexual references, strong language, alcohol and drug use, crime references, and talking about self-harm. So i guess probably 12 or so.
- About 17k words in total.
- 15 scenes (aka 'bits'), excluding endings.
- Language: English
- Voice acting: no
- Soundtrack consisting of 16 original tracks and a fragment of Blue Danube by Strauss 😉.
- Supported OS: Windows
- Resolution: 3840x2160
- Noncommercial, free to read.
- No DRM.
- Built with Ren'Py 8.

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If you're up for following some social media, then:

• YouTube (you can already listen to first two tracks from the OST).
• Mastodon
• Facebook

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Well then!
That will be it for now :). Thanks for reading folks, and if you happen to be interested or have any questions - please feel invited to drop a comment :).

Yours,
Wiktor from Badger Can Fly