Stardust Journey - Artfight 2024 Mass Atack!
What would happen if you were suddenly transported onto a mysterious beach party after not finishing your Artfight hitlist for years?
Stardust Journey is a short 2D visual novel with point-and-click elements that features various OCs from Artfight artists! This game was done with Godot 4.2.1.
*Note: the game doesn't fully support ultrawide resolutions, and is built to work in 16:9! I'm working on a patch for that, sorry.
The browser version of the game lacks some transitions from the .exe version! I highly recommend you to download the game :)
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⭐ FEATURES ⭐
4 Different routes to choose from, with unique animations and storyline
Hand-drawn graphics for each character
Meme references! I've added a 10% to trigger a special Game Over screen every time you end up getting a bad ending. Will you be able to find it?
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⭐ ESTIMATED PLAY TIME⭐: 30 mins
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🏳️AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS🏳️
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✨ CONTROLS ✨
Mouse: Use the mouse to advance the story and choose between dialogue options!
You can also use the keyboard instead, but there are some point-n-click features where the mouse use is needed.
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✨ CHARACTER CREDITS ✨
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These are the artists I've attacked on the visual novel, along with the rating of each attack. In Artfight, you must specify the size, complexity and animation of each of your attacks so the system can rate it and give you a certain amount of points depending on how complex it is. This is also a list in order to help mods verify everything I've done for the game!
The overall attack is fully rendered, polished and animated frame by frame.
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✏️ OCs with story routes / Appear on the visual novel as characters ✏️
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MegaDiegoVA - Xpectro
Full body with 5 different expressions (full body)
2 simple shaped full bodies for the in-game animations (simple shaped characters)
Pixelart chibi (simple shaped characters)
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Sprinkled-Pia - Edward, Jeremy
Half body with 10 different expressions (half body)
A bust for the in-game animations (head / bust shot)
Pixelart chibi (simple shaped characters)
An ugly ice popsicle featuring Fuzzington/Jeremy! (simple shaped characters) // (Having your own amusement park surely has it's merchandising perks (?)
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Hannah_b_art99 - Ghost
Full body with 5 different expressions (full body)
Head for the in-game animations (head / bust shot)
Pixelart chibi (simple shaped characters)
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DtrakoDrakonien (the one I'm attacking with this VN!) - Ignacia
Half body with 8 different face expressions (half body)
Pixelart chibi (simple shaped characters)
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Me! (Diadantist) - Honida, Fairy
Half body of Honida with 15 different expressions (half body)
Half body of Honida for the in-game animations (half body)
Half body of Fairy (my sona) with 8 different expressions (half body)
Bust of Fairy for the in-game animations (head/ bust shot)
Pixelart chibi of Honida (simple-shaped characters)
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✏️ OCs with references / pixelart chibis in-game (some of them had storylines but had to be cut because of Artfight's time limitation ;--;) ✏️
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Caotikman - Pixelart chibi of Marina (simple-shaped characters)
Der_Desn - Pixelart chibi of Izzifith (simple-shaped characters)
Arikabooboo - Pixelart chibi of Silk // Mini plushie design of ??? (simple-shaped characters)
Gashadokuroz - Mini plushie design of Nia, bedroom BG (simple-shaped characters)
Beta_Akira - Pixelart chibi of Commander Akira (simple-shaped characters)
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This was done for Artfight 2024.
"Art Fight is an annual art game that lasts for 1 month, beginning every July. During the event users can register on the site to join in. Each year, participants are split into two themed teams to which they are assigned randomly."
If you want to know more about the event, click here! :)
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🎵 MUSIC/SFX AND OTHER CREDITS 🎵
Dialogic 2.0 plugin for Godot by the Dialogic Team
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Rock/pop pack by code_box
Dawn chorus distant ocean by jackmichaelking
Main menu and bedroom themes by Jan Hehr
SFXs by Pixabay
Secret Game Over Screen Music by Archivos del Sótano (YT) (don't click it if you don't want to spoil the "surprise"! XD)
(Fun fact: the talking / writing sound is made with a sample of "Luma" from Super Mario Galaxy! :D)
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🐛 BUG REPORTING 🐛
If you encounter any error or bug, please let me know through Artfight or here! Due to the nature of the event (the time limitation constraint) I'm sure there'll be problems I haven't found yet, despite trying my best to keep the visual novel relatively bug-free.
Once the event finishes, I'll probably release an update to improve the quality of the images (since I've used Dialogic and it gave me a really bad time with that) and make a proper dialogue system by myself.
I'm still relatively new to gamedev and this is my first time doing a game fully by myself, programming included.
Feedback is greatly appreciated!
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- The game is finally posted!🎉43 days ago
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Gracias señor hombre caotiko 🫡💙
hello!! I saw your attack on the art Fight website WHICH IS AWESOME BTW??? SO COOL.
But there are a few glitches. for example, some of the Spanish translation text mixed into the English translation of the game, I think. plus, it's hard to exit out of the game as there's no obvious option to back out of full screen or quit to menu once you've started the game
Still. This attack is awesome! I'm really glad you had enough time to finish it before art fight ended! CRAZY IMPRESSIVE TOO!!! Amazing job on this attack!
Heya! Thanks for playing the game, I appreciate it a lot.
I'm aware that it's hard to exit the game unless doing a hard reset (the old alt + f4), I actually had it on the roadmap alongside save states but had to cut the features out because of time limitations. I'll work towards implementing them once Artfight finishes so I can properly focus on troubleshooting without bothering the site mods (I've asked for a rating check, so I don't want to change anything major for now).
For the full screen problem, I think I can try to enable window mode as a possibility. I'll look into it tomorrow; for now I wanna rest a bit.
Can you please tell me where exactly did you find the mixed up text? I'll try to release a hotfix ASAP for that! Thank you again for the kind comment <3
Of course! As to where the mixed up text is it was two different places.
though I don't know about the Spanish version having any mix ups there.
The name of the player is "Tu" for what appears to be the whole game. and when Fairy asks if you are alive if you pick the "no" option there are 2 sentences of dialogue that are in Spanish instead of English.
sorry I took so long to reply but I wanted to play through the whole game so I could check for any problems elsewhere with the languages but I didn't see any
EDIT: though I should note after Fairy hands you the paper there was a minor spelling mistake where the player says "Heym, it's exactly the list I had lost!"
Don't worry, I appreciate you wanting to play the full game for that reason!
And yeah my bad, I forgot to update the name .csv so that's definitely my fault xD I'll change it asap! Thank you so much again 💙
Edit: I had mistakenly used ";" instead of "," when separating the locales in the translation sheet! No wonder it swapped to spanish. And you're right, there's no errors on the spanish version since it's my first language and I wrote all the dialogue on that language first. I appreciate a lot the feedback on the translated part; I've been speaking english for almost all my life, but a lot of this kind of stuff tends to slip by! :)