Star Gazing

Overview

Star Gazing is a casual game you'd find in a magazine, a bundle of disks, or being traded among people at the office.  This puzzle experience harkens back to the DOS era of video games, imitating the limitations of the systems but being made for modern hardware; DOSBox is not needed to play.

Gameplay

With Renaissance visuals, connect stars in a randomly generated night sky to form constellations of characters that live in illuminated manuscripts. With a vague idea of what to find thanks to a bank of images onscreen, completing constellations is challenging but no less rewarding. Star Gazing is all we love in pen-and-paper puzzles in the fascinating atmosphere of 16th-century cosmology. Plus, it's a period piece in a period piece.

Credits

Trey Poling: project director, programmer, artist

Julian Ployhar: additional programming, sound design, logo design

Sound effects provided by
Davit Masia and Wesley Wyatt

Title theme by John Dowland (c. 1563 - 1626):
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home

Special thanks to Jacob Folk for Latin advising

Created in Godot 3.5 for the DOS Games June 2023 Jam.