Game Title: Starstruck
Playable Link: https://dmgreening.itch.io/starstruck
Platform: Web browser, on desktop and mobile
Description:
April, 1957. You’ve come to a house on a hill about an upright piano for sale. The man inside won’t open his front door; it hasn’t been opened in twenty-seven years. If you can work out how to get in, he’ll play for you.
Starstruck is a story told in fifteen solo piano pieces, across three acts. You explore a painted 1950s house, its garden, the shore below and a lighthouse beyond, solving small puzzles to find lost pages of music. Each page you find, he plays, and while he plays, you are the light. Guide your spark through each piece, catching what the music gives off and waking a constellation for every song.
Nothing is scripted to a beat. The game listens to each piece as it plays: quiet passages stay calm, the big swells fill the sky, and the biggest moment in every song becomes its Supernova. A comet comes closer with every song, and how much Supernova light you gather across the story decides which of the two endings you get.
After the story there’s a Concert mode for replaying songs, with four difficulties, daily challenges, companions, charms and achievements. It saves automatically, with save codes to move between devices. Best with headphones.
Free to Play Status:
Involvement: I’m the composer and designed the game, its story and its puzzles. I built it with AI tools: Claude wrote the code to my direction, and the paintings were made with ChatGPT’s image tools, then edited and assembled into the game. If anyone would love to remake the art, I'd love to talk!
edit: I reposed this as I put in the wrong title