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That's weird. If you bought the game on its own, not as part of a bundle, you should be able to claim a Steam key on that page.

Email me at contact@spacegoblingames.com using the same email address you used for the purchase and I'll hook you up.

It should be available. If you click "Download", on the page where you choose which version to download, there should also be a button to claim a Steam key.

I've uploaded an apk file, please let me know if it works for you!

When I first released Seedship in 2017, it was on philome.la, a free hosting site for Twine games. Later on I moved it to its current home on itch.io, and also made the Android and iOS apps, but a lot of old links to Seedship you can find online still point to the philome.la version.

philome.la was discontinued and became read-only in 2019, so that version of Seedship is still there, but I can no longer update it. This means it contains a few minor bugs that I've since fixed in the current version.

If you're playing Seedship online or sharing links to it, please play the version here on itch.io! (https://spacegoblingames.itch.io/seedship) And in particular, if you find a bug in the philome.la version, please make sure you can reproduce it on the itch.io version, because there's a good chance it's been fixed.

Thank you so much ❤️

Thank you, I'm so glad you like the game!

The survival game idea could be fun, but it would also be a very different game from Seedship, and I'm working on other games now. 

Please don't use Seedship (or any of my other games) as the basis for any genAI/LLM project.

Generative AI is massively damaging to the environment, is built on stolen work, and has been shown to damage its users' ability to think for themselves.

If you really want to create Seedship-based genAI text or artwork, I can't stop you, but please don't post it here.

Thank you! :)

OK thanks, I will take a look.

Ugh, I thought I fixed this. Can you double check you're playing the latest version? In small text on the bottom right of the settings screen it should say version 1.1.7.

Right at the top of the game page there should be a thing saying "You own this game" and a Download button underneath it.

Clicking on that should take you to a page where you can choose which version to download.

Do you not see the "You own this game" button, or does something go wrong when you click on it?

Update: I've got some more Steam keys, you should be able to claim one now.

Thanks for letting me know. I've requested some more from Steam, it might take a few days for them to be approved.

All the systems, including the databases, can be damaged if you land on a planet when you have a damaged landing system.

I didn't actually know you could get around the iframe like that with an itch game. Anyway I need the sharer page for the Android and iOS versions to point at so it's easiest to use it for all three versions.

Just so you know, I hate generative AI. Soulless slop built on plagiarism and environmental destruction.

Obviously I can't stop people from taking the output of my game and plugging it into an AI image generator, but please don't post about it here.

You can also undo a lot of your decisions by reloading the page. There was no way to prevent this without rewriting the whole game, and I decided that it didn't really matter in a single-player game.

The sharer link works by encoding the game data in the query string (the bit after the ? in the URL). Games hosted on itch.io don't have access to that query string, so I made a page on my own website to display the mission report.

It looks like you're playing the version hosted on philome.la. That was the original site where Seedship was hosted, but the site was discontinued and became read-only in 2019, so I can no longer update the version of the game there and it's forever stuck on version 1.3.1.

I fixed this bug (and a few other minor bugs) in version 1.3.3, so the itch.io version and the mobile app versions don't contain it.

Great! I'll make sure to correctly label the files when I upload new versions in future.

If you're playing on Linux I recommend getting the browser version (btcg_browser.zip) and running it in your web browser, rather than running the Windows executable through an emulator. Anyway I'm glad the Steam version is working for you.

All I did today was label the file btcg_win.exe as a Windows executable in the itch.io back-end. I didn't make any changes to the files themselves, so I don't know why this would break something for you.

Do you want to try downloading the game from the website without using the itch app and see if that works?

Hi! It looks like the file btcg_win.exe wasn't correctly labelled as a Windows executable in itch.io. I've fixed that, so can you see if that fixes your issue?

Unfortunately there really isn't any way to mod Seedship because it doesn't load anything from external files that you could modify.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm no longer developing the game and I'm happy with it in its current state. Also I deliberately made it simple because I thought that would be most artistically effective, so I think pixel art and features like ship building and ship upgrades would have muddied the premise.

If you want to play a larger, more complicated game with more scenarios where you can do things like upgrade your ship, you should check out this game's spiritual successor: https://johnayliff.itch.io/beyond-the-chiron-gate

Thank you!!!

I don't remember exactly how it works but you don't get the chance to save the police robot in the police station, you do it at the very end of the game when you and the police robot are in the research lab.

I've updated the Android version so it should be back on Google Play.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to get this fixed this week. In the meantime, playing the web version in your phone browser is basically the same experience as playing the app version.

*So* annoying that older apps just stop working unless the developer rebuilds them for the latest Android versions.

Wow, thank you! I had no idea it had such enduring appeal. You may have spent more time playing the game than I did writing it!

If this is the app, does the same thing happen if you play the web version in your phone browser?

I won't be making Seedship open source but if you want to look at the source code for your personal coding exercises you can email contact@johnayliff.com and I'll send it to you.

Thank you so much!

No, they're all the same game.

It wasn't all *that* annoying :)

Thank you!

Thank you! Really happy to be a part of this.

Sadly no, I'm pretty sure there's no way to sell an iOS app outside the app store. Apple are pretty strict about that.

1. Yes, the PC version is the same as the iOS version so should be equally blind accessible.

2. Unfortunately there's no way to sell an iOS app from itch.io or for itch.io to know that you've bought it from the App Store, so yes you'd have to buy it again.

3. There's no required typing. You can optionally rename your spaceship and explorers, and that involves typing in a new name, but if you choose not to do this then there's no typing.