potion of midi ✨Nova Forever✨

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#gamedev working on NOVA FOREVER, a sci-fi adventure game! Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2954040/Nova_Forever/

A futuristic-looking crate containing little plastic cartridges called memory plates. Each one is being picked up by the player after being pulled out one by one, revealing their labels: Memory Plate 1: A pink label with the drawing of a rain cloud that is titled "The Soothing World of Pink Noise" Memory Plate 2: A dark label adorned by little ghosts and a screaming face titled "Top 100 Jump Scares - Sounds that will raise your blood pressure" Memory Plate 3: An elegant red cartridge depicting golden piano keys titled "soft & golden piano notes" Memory Plate 4: A bright label depicting three jars being opened, titled "Top 100 Lid Opening Sounds". It also has a sticker applied that reads "Now with trash cans & urns!!!"
Favorite albums of 2025: The Universe Smiles Upon You ii by Khruangbin, choke enough by oklou, Lonely People With Power by Deafheaven, Bloodless by Samia, NEVER ENOUGH by Turnstile, black british music by Jim Legxacy, You're Weird Now by Guerilla Toss, private music by Deftones, The Smashing Machine by Nala Sinephro, Belong by Jay Som, Stardust by Danny Brown, Wanderstop by C418
A puzzle dependency chart, demonstrating blocks as steps in a dependent puzzle chain. For more complex puzzle chains, it helps to identify bottlenecks and problems in the logic etc.
A compacted, dusty ball of... dust.
Still from the 1985 classic "The Goonies" showing a group of kids examining a treasure map in a basement.
screenshot of an occult looking webp image file called "empty_person.webp". This is super scary stuff!
A lonely asteroid in space with a tiny little house on top and a runway to the left. Title are written across the screen: "Prologue: The Getaway"
A broken drone floats in space just in front of the window of a messy, futuristic room. Cargo, Slushy and Boogie inspect what's going on, while Boogie gets overwhelmed and faints.
Wireframe view of a room
Boogie the Ghost and Slushy the Slime floating in the air in front of the main character Cargo, standing in front of his little house on an asteroid. Boogie has a speech bubble above her saying "What are you two clowns even talking about?"
A retro computer sitting on a desk in a dark room. The screen illuminates the surroundings, revealing an old sandwich and some posters on the wall. The screen shows a scene from Nova Forever featuring cute creepers screaming at a drone that ascends from a hole in the ground.
Excerpt from a cutscene script with dialogue from both main characters that scream at each other simultaneously and relentlessly. My favorite vegetable is radish btw
A snowed in office cubicle with a soundtrack CD to Snow Cone Serenade sticking out of the snow and the (poetic) words "bleep bloop" in the other corner.
The blender default cube with one face of it removed, revealing what scientists suspected for decades: it contains one Cargo.
The options menu returns to the simple Helvetica-like font on a plain blue background with several gradient rectangles separating the individual options including a full-screen toggle, language selection, auto skip option, individual volume bars, and a context sensitive info box in the top right. It shows the players more information about the option they are hovering over presently.
The inventory of Nova Forever comprises a simple blue square divided into a grid of items with colorful backgrounds. To the right side of it the players can expand a menu to a save menu, options and a quick button to exit the game, because they need a coffee break or maybe a break in general from all the impending doom in this world or something like that. The right side explains that clicking on items will cause the standard pointer to change into a pointer-version of the item’s image. This is to provide an obvious point for the players’ cursor and not to slip and fall from missing an object you want to combine stuff with. That would hurt!
The main menu of the game showing several options to start, load or exit the game. Written in a simple font in all caps, very much inspired by the iconic Helvetica. The background scene shows a futuristic metal desk with a cup of tea, a keyboard and monitor, and a spinning glass star on it. The monitor shows two holographic characters prompting the player to wishlist the game or to participate in giving feedback. The middle of the monitor shows one of the grimmest horrors known to mankind: a blank page.
ALT: The title screen of the game with the "Nova Forever" logo in the middle and a simple rectangular "continue" button below, backed by a stream of blurred stars in blue space. Red bokeh particles in various sizes dance around the screen. Subtle music accompanies this to set the scene.
One of the mall centers of The Plaza space station. A huge fountain installment with a stone statue builds its center, surrounded by shops, food spots, an arcade and escalators. Clean, white marble floors with curvy railings reveal a second floor. Glowing arches span across a glass ceiling that is is backed by endless blue space.
Cargo leaping towards Nova over the abyss of a dark elevator shaft.
Nova Cassidy and Cargo standing and facing away from each other looking into the distance of space. Nova emits a blue glow and Cargo a red one.
Bernard, Laverne and Hoagie stand in their living room. In front of their open door stands a little hamster bringing them a letter. The dark, crammed room is illuminated by the TV, full of metal posters, a green couch, speakers and a little desk in the corner for a PC.
Our heroes Cargo and Nova stand at the counter of the racing-themed Pit Stop Bar, where a seemingly unconscious person is strapped into a racing seat while a miniature car is administering a drink to them through an opening in their racing helmet. Cargo yells out "Woah!". The counter is made of asphalt, and the entire bar is full of checkerboard patterns and corny, racing themed props.
A wide shot of our hero Cargo being thrown through time and space in the middle of a transport. Lights rush past him, and a blue hand is appearing over his own, suggesting that something totally weird is going on.
The outer rim - all the way at the edge of space. We see a wide shot of a lonely asteroid with a tiny house and a runway in the middle of the deep blue space.