Caretaker
The journey to a new planet is long and complicated. Thankfully, by putting passengers in suspended animation, colonists can embark on the journey without experiencing the passage of time. With the most high tech, automated systems, very little labor is required.
Little, but not none. You are the Caretaker, the only living being on board. The Caretakers job is to supervise the automated systems and eventually wake the travelers upon arrival. But for you, a the third in your line, your whole life is spent aboard this ship doing routine checks and maintenance. You did not choose to embark on this journey, and you will not see its end.
Submission to the SuNoFes jam. Not completely finished, will get visuals and sound eventually.
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
| Author | mari cece |
| Genre | Interactive Fiction |
| Tags | Meaningful Choices, Sci-fi, Twine |
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I enjoy your take on the sci-fi trope with clones who have maintenance tasks. The life of the caretaker is reflected well by the way you implemented the story structure where you present the same routine tasks each day and let the player spot where the variances lie. I was looking forward to see what the character will do by the end and how/if they come in terms with their fate.
Currently some actions lead to dead ends with no link to the main hub and there are some spelling mistakes in the script, but with these fixed and the extra polish you already mentioned like visuals and sounds, it can shape up to a pretty neat short sci-fi interactive fiction!
I will drop by again in the future and and edit this comment to reflect the situation of the newer build.