Songbearer

Description

About

Songbearer is a game where you explore a spaceship wreckage. It is intended to be playable using sounds only.

You can use a game controller or keyboard. All key mappings can be changed.

Default keyboard mapping:

• 1 to toggle text-to-speech
• Arrows, WASD to move
• Arrows and tab to navigate menus
• Space or enter to interact
• R to repeat last sentence
• Shift to stop speech
• Escape to open the menu

While we had aspirations of making it screen-reader accessible, Godot is currently not yet ready for that integration. So we provided a text-to-speech version that should read out all text on screen.

We hope you enjoy this explorative musical game!

Collaborators:

• Joozey - Programmer
• Ogrehara - Programmer, SFX
• Thomas Mezzie - Programmer
• Tangent Sacket Pyle - Artist
• Ang - Writer
• Calosja - Music

OST:

https://calosja.itch.io/songbearer-ost

Image alt texts

Cover image: a small alien creature stands amidst the ruins of a crashed spaceship, ready to explore. The art is in big strokes and in 3 shades of gray.

Updates

Songbearer was patched with a few bugfixes after submission deadline:

• Fixed TTS rate slider (for real this time)
• Added attributions.txt
• Made medbay exit more identifiable
• Make credits text loop back
• TTS now speaks all slider values when changed
• Menu TTS customized to include navigational aides and input control details
• Navigation controls of menu expanded
• Doorway, shard, and point of interests easier to find without spamming 
• Volumes normalized 
• room atmospheres improved
• fixed intro so mouse intervention is never needed

Attribution

Songbearer's sound and music design were made possible by the contributions of several artists from freesound.org and wikimedia commons. A full list of attributions can be found here.