Endless Night on Galaxy Railway by cuoshen

A visual novel inspired by the novel 銀河鉄道の夜 by Miyazawa Kenji. Press space to take a turn, but be sure to choose an option whenever the buttons appear.
| Youtube | https://github.com/cuoshen/Stranding |
| Youtube | https://cuoshen.itch.io/endless-night-on-galaxy-railway |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/endless-night-on-galaxy-railway |
Ratings
| Overall | 1391th | 3.026⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1455th | 2.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1022th | 3.132⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 821th | 3.605⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 578th | 3.816⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 487th | 3.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
Jumped of the train afterwards anyway, it was a fun little ride, but took me a couple of guesses on how the train worked, mashing space seemed to just re-roll the dice, but after waiting train moves properly. Also would have welcomed to see all text after another space mash, but it was not an issue.
Nice moody space adventure.
The narration is quite cool. I would enjoy a longer and polished version, with a lot more station and dreamy dialogues.
I wish it had some kind of audio.
It was a cool game, and the art and narrative set the mood for an experience that was very unique. I liked how at first it seemed like it was going to be a regular 2D visual novel but then turned into another kind of game altogether. If you expand this, it would be cool if it switched between the two styles, 3D for going to the stations and 2D for interacting with characters.
The theme connection is quite good, because you have a story connection (reincarnation) and a mechanic connection (looping game board). Good job!
Narrations felt been adapted with current events and somehow the mood of The Meditation. The game runs a little slow during the dice rolling. I did not found some random events, may be they are not added yet.
Hope to add some music from the CG version of the original work.
As a note, I played on a 4K tv and the font was VERY small, I had to stand next to the television to read it. But I did read it ;)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/the-dumb-robot
I really liked the writing and a story. Having more time, assets and redone gameplay, this may be such a gem to play in the future!
Huge props for mr. Hawking. Keep up the good work!