Routine Mission by Flightless
This is an interactive audio drama.
Step into the cold isolation of Capsule Alpha. You are alone in orbit, with only a radio to connect you to the outside world.
Controls
- Arrow keys - Left and right to tune the frequency
- R - Reset
Tools
- Engine: Unity
- Visuals: Hand-painted Watercolors, Paint.net, Blender
- Voice Acting: Elevenlabs
- Audio & Music: Ableton Live 12, Analog Lab Pro, Audacity
Since the voice acting is done with AI, i opt out of the Audio category - according to the rules.

| Link | https://campfire.se/ludumdare/59/ |
| Link | https://campfire.se/ludumdare/59/scripts.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/routine-mission |
Ratings
| Overall | 89th | 3.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 177th | 3.184⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 142th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 70th | 4.105⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 215th | 3.111⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 12th | 4.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
The gameplay of the anomaly leading to a game over wasn't clear until it happened, I thought it was just more flavour.
This game had a fantastic atmosphere. The gameplay was very simple, but I was very engaged with the story, and enjoyed the variation, and the story arc. I was on the edge of my seat, it was quite creepy! Avoiding the red dot was actually quite tricky at times (to me it was quite clear that if I ignored it my ship would explode). I think it really added to the tension. Great entry, its quite tricky to successfully pull off the mood that you did!
I also liked the "signal", as it sounded appropriately menacing without being too grating on ears. There were a couple of occasions when I got locked into conversation as the signal was active and audible, so maybe it could have used some special check to remove it after a second or two once a message starts, but it wasn't a big issue.
I also enjoyed looking for some other signals across the spectrum to see if there were some hidden things in there, like maybe foreshadowing some stuff, and that made me think that perhaps that would be a nice way to expand on this project in the future - placing more smaller messages here and there that aren't necessary to find, but can provide some additional flavour.

All in all, it was a very enjoyable experience, well done!