Announcing Development on Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries!

Last night on our Writing Livestream, I announced that Arcana Labs was taking a forray back into software development with our first large gaming project: Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries. Inspired by a combination of my own frustration with not having a specific tool I wanted, and classic games of my childhood like the PalmOS’s Space Trader, EM:D will combine the economics simulation “space trucker” gameplay so common to the starship-captain genre with the environmental mood-setting and “pseudo-productivity” gameplay typified by games like Spirit City: Lofi Sessions. The original idea occured to me back in may, and I’ve been playing with a development plan for it ever since. With the way things have been unfolding lately, now seems like a great time to start pursuing it in earnest. While not being strictly confined to the sessions, the game now joins my open writing projects on the list of available topics for work session livestreams. A Bit More on the Gameplay Details Ecliptic Mariner:…