A Brief Insight into the World of Stellate

Link to Game on itch.io

‘A Brief Insight into the World of Stellate’ is a World Building project I worked on during my last semester at Pratt Institute. Using a combination of sketches, Adobe Photoshop, and InDesign, I created a world bible (some excerpts of which can be seen below). The world bible goes into detail about the various major cities, technology, and magic that is within Stellate, told through the perspective of a teacher narrating a lesson to her class. I did a lot of research into various ecosystems for this project, and tried to match up biomes within Stellate to the type of fungus that actually exist within them here on Earth.

With the help of a friend, I also created a small prototype of what a game set in this world could be. It is a RPG, that has puzzle-solving aspects, as well as a bullet-hell style combat mechanic! I wanted to create a game that has a similar narrative feeling to a JRPG (ie. Mother 3, Persona 5), while also having a different combat mechanic that set it apart from other games in that genre (similar to Undertale and Danganronpa). With this, I landed on the concept of blending puzzles within the overworld portions of the game with the concept of a ‘bullet hell’ as the combat mechanic. Though the game is largely unfinished, I think overall this prototype captures what I envisioned the game to be. A link to the Stellate game can be found above.

Please contact me if you would like to see the full Stellate World Bible.