Voyage (jlinkness, theeespacepope, jrhodes)

What is Voyage

Voyage is a sci-fi strategy roguelike where players control a ship and her crew traveling across star systems, trying to reach a gateway to a new sector of space. Along the way the crew will have to fight, making sacrifices to themselves and their sanity, and question their own boundaries of what they will do to survive.

Influences

Games like Battleship, Oregon Trail, and FTL

Films like Alien, Star Wars, and Interstellar

Music from this playlist:

Combat Prototype

Voyage is currently in early development. The latest build release is a prototype of the combat system for the game. That means that many features are unbalanced or missing, and that there is a lot of unpolished and placeholder content. It is unoptimized. There are also bugs.

Our goal with this prototype is to test the core mechanics of combat - weak points, targeting, and crew control. 

The prototype should give you a good sense of the direction we want to go with Voyage. We want it to be dark, difficult, and unforgiving. It's missing many of the features we would like have to make it more fun and replayable, but those will come as we develop the game further, and hopefully you can be a part of that.

Future Development

The combat prototype is the first major milestone for the development of Voyage. Below is our current plan for milestones, up to release and subject to change:

• Combat prototype
• Traveling prototype
• Game loop demo
• Steam Early Access release
• Full release

The traveling prototype is our next major milestone. It will be what connects combat encounters, like the one from the combat prototype, together through an interactive star map. Each encounter will represented by signals that the player travels between to progress.

* Until we receive funding to work on the game full time, our development speed will be significantly reduced. Because of this, it's difficult to predict our release schedule. Currently our scope has the three of us working full time for around a year and a half to complete the game. 

Controls

Camera Controls
Rotate camera: Right Mouse Hold

Targeting
(with targeting active)
Place target: Right Mouse
Cancel target: Left Mouse

Crew Controls
Select single: Left Mouse
Select multiple: Left Mouse and drag
Navigate to position: Right mouse

Hot Keys
Abilities: 1 - 3
Show tactical overlay: Tab

System Requirements

TBD

The shader we're using to show damage on the ship uses tessellation and displacement, and won't work on older graphics cards or certain integrated graphics systems. I'm not sure yet though what the minimum specs are to run the game properly.

It doesn't run properly on a Macbook.

If you run the game and see a purple a ship, then your system doesn't meet the minimum specs. Please fill out the survey linked in the demo and let us know what your specs are so we can better inform others.

Support Us

We need your help to tell us what's working and what isn't on design, interaction, experience, and everything that makes Voyage. After you play through the demo you will be linked to a survey (10 questions) about your experience. We read all the responses and use those directly to influence our development.

If you really like what we're doing and want to help us more directly, you can donate here or on our Patreon page. Patrons who sub for $10 or more get access to our Discord channel to talk directly with us, as well as get the game on release and some other perks.

Check out our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/voyagegame

Changelog

• Added a new Linux build based on request. Check the read me and let us know if it works!
• Initial Combat Prototype Release