Cov Stranding

COV STRANDING
Dialogue choices affect what happens next.
You play as Stan, who is definitely not named Sam.
covstranding.tech

Inspiration

This creation was quite obviously inspired by Kojima Productions' Death Stranding, a game about bringing a broken world back together onto a virtual network. I figured it might resonate with us, as we all use the internet for something or other, and a lot would be at stake if it suddenly went away.

How I built it

It was coded in Python and runs using Ren'Py - a Python-based visual novel publishing program. The website was made in github pages and linked to a nice domain courtesy of domain.com!

Challenges I ran into

I had literally never used this program before, or even tried to make a visual novel for that matter.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I actually made something functional, which is a small miracle considering how long it's been since I last used Python. The art style ended up looking kind of cute even though it's just the product of me being strapped for time.

What I learned

Making a game, even a really simple text based one, takes time and a lot of scouring forums to figure out where your code went wrong!

What's next for Cov Stranding

A cease and desist, probably.

Credits

Obviously credits to Kojima Productions for the idea I blatantly parodied. Credits to Pixabay for being a great source of open source images when I was too lazy to draw a background. Thanks to the Ren'Py team for keeping their software open source! Big shout outs to Domain.com for their timely customer support when I needed it (lol).