Haven’t played it yet, but he just released the game here: The Interactive Fiction Competition
That doesn’t mean he clarified tech details in the game, though, so the question could definitely be valid anyway.
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Oh, thanks for the info. I personally don’t care for comps and jams, so I missed this.
I love steampunk (but not only). So this question sort of drives me.
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Yes, but it’s only vaguely described in the game. For example, the way the lifting mechanism is described to the player character, a gas gets heated up and processed into something that’s not a gas that lifts the ship, but all the technical terms are left untranslated (rather than saying either “it gets ionized and becomes a plasma”, or “the ether is given a galvanic charge”).
I wanted to make reference to some of the cool things I learned in this thread, while also maintaining the theme that the player character is an outsider here and doesn’t really understand the details—plus, it explains away any mistakes I made in the technical parts! Clearly the engineers know how it works but the player character just didn’t understand the explanation properly.
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