Starship Breakers: Alpha

Patricia stopped taking part in climbing activities after getting injured at a local tournament. She’s now studying in Iceland and needs money. One day, she finds a shady gig about playtesting an action escape game and finds herself trapped in a fictional spaceship. She must escape using both her wits and her agility.

Starship Breakers: Alpha was originally developed for both Josei Jam 2025 (May-June) and Battle Action Fantasy VN Jam 2025 (June), but it was only submitted to the former as it lacked supernatural elements.

Jose Jam 2025 submission

The plot was written as a prologue to a bigger story that would also feature an action escape game, inspired by puzzle anime Phi Brain, but it can be enjoyed as a standalone story.

• Download and run the executable matching your platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)

• Currently, only mouse is fully supported, with additional keyboard/gamepad bindings for some actions

  • Mouse is required to navigate in some menus
  • Gamepad bindings are shown at the bottom in the menus when gamepad input is detected

• Visual Novel phase controls:

  • Advance dialogue: mouse primary button click, Space or Enter
  • Toggle auto-advance mode: click Auto or press A
  • Skip: click Skip or hold Ctrl/PageDown (set Skip mode to Everything or Read only in Settings > Text)
  • Rollback: mouse wheel up or PageUp
  • Pause menu: mouse secondary button click or Escape

• Puzzle phase controls:

  • Click on an object to interact with it. It will automatically do the correct contextual action (look, take, use, place item)
  • Pause menu: mouse secondary button click or Escape

The latest version is still incomplete, but gives an overview of the game’s experience:

• 7 scenes (out of 13)
• 1 puzzle
• 20 minutes of play
• 3 finished background, 2 unfinished backgrounds
• 2 BGM

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Changelog

v0.4 - 2025-06-29 - Jam release

• First prototype release with working puzzle
• First 7 scenes
• Puzzle 1
• 3 finished background, 2 unfinished backgrounds
• 2 BGM

• komehara: Writing, Puzzle design, Programming
• Mongoose: Art direction, Background art
• Ecchymog: Character design
• Zwaany: Character design (Tracey)
• MadScientist: Menu UI
• Marionette: Puzzle UI, Additional graphic design
• Maxime Campin: Music
• Athmane: Sound design
• Alex: Proofreading

Playtesters

• Rythen

Fonts

• Rajdhani by Indian Type Foundry under SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
• Inter by Rasmus Andersson under SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 (part of Naninovel framework)
• Game of Squids by Darrell Flood

Sprites

• Dad silhouette by RAIT Visual Works: https://witching-metal.itch.io/character-silhouettes-bureaucrats

Ambient

• Snowy landscape: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/outdoor-winter-ambience-birds-light-wind-trees-23768/
• Escape Game Corridor1: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/set-of-ventilation-sounds-52435/

SFX

• Smartphone Ringtone: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/90x27s-rampb-guitar-loop-171092/
• Smartphone Call End: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/cell-phone-hang-up-100514/
• Climb Ladder Slow/Fast: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/metal-footsteps-14727/

Game engine

• Unity 6000.0.48f1
• Naninovel v1.20

Writing

• Obsidian with plugins:

  • Smart Typography by mgmeyers
  • Better Word Count by Luke Leppan

Art

• Adobe Photoshop

Audio

• Cubase
• Logic Pro