I made this little game for the Jam!  https://mootootwo.itch.io/fading-light  I am also sending it to https://itch.io/jam/pamphletjam so it is a map game made to print and play on a three panel bi-fold pamphlet.

I hope there is enough text to make the gameplay clear, I had to edit judiciously to fit into the space available.  

The premise is that you travel between worlds on your starship, and can only peer at other worlds across the lightyears and see what they looked like several decades ago.  As you travel, you update what you know about each destination, and try to reach one of several end-conditions.  

As the worlds advance, models the same sort of cyclical advancement and cataclysmic transcendence that you might see in Vernor Vinge, or with VSCA's Diaspora.

I owe a special thanks to https://clockworkmonk.itch.io/ for suggesting the way the pamphlet can create an information-overlay when folded over.  Super clever!  Also super difficult to render a preview image of...

Cheers,

Luke