Sooo, here it is. My first game jam, my third game (only one was released finished, tho). It’s a long story as “Europa rescue!” is, in fact, a scaled-down and demade idea for a video game I once wrote a treatment for, called “Action on Altair” which depicted the player trying to repair a defunc space station. The idea was based on the evens on Salyut 7 - a dead soviet space station in the ’80s. Years later I wrote a short novel titled “Half the Sky” (collected in my 2020 book “The Cold Starlight”) starring two female cosmonauts - a Polish and a Chinese - trying to rescue the titular Europa international orbit base.
And so here it is. The initial demo sports the intro sequence and the first three tasks - prepare your spaceship for docking, dock the space station and enter it.
Coming next will be: restore power, repair the station’s own power supply, run the oxygen generator, and contact mission control. I think I may not be able to bring all that during the jam, but I’ll try.
The graphic design is prone to change in several places, so disregard it for now :)