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Salve Regina / Game in development

Build a star. Buy some time.

A cosmic-scale game project about gathering mass, reshaping stars, and buying time against an approaching force called Event Horizon.

Salve Regina open-world prototype with celestial masses deforming a green gravity grid and a white player marker.
Open-world development. Navigating between masses in the gravity-grid prototype—the exploration side of Salve Regina.

A universe to reshape

The design combines an explorable overworld with shoot ’em up encounters. Players guide Salve Regina through a universe of gravity wells, converting matter and folding smaller masses into larger celestial structures.

Each encounter feeds into a larger goal: assembling enough mass to create a star-powered weapon.

The planned gameplay loop

  1. 01 / Explore

    Choose your next target

    Survey the overworld and select masses to pursue. The larger map provides the setting for the encounters ahead.

  2. 02 / Convert

    Gather matter through encounters

    Shoot ’em up runs turn selected masses into material that can feed the next stage of construction.

  3. 03 / Fold

    Build toward a star

    Fold and merge converted masses into larger structures, working toward the mass needed for a star-powered weapon.

Event Horizon is approaching

Construction has a purpose beyond getting bigger. Event Horizon is the approaching force that gives the cycle its urgency: gather, convert, and build enough to buy more time.

SHMUP development scene with black thorn-like shapes inside a cyan circular arena surrounded by orange.
SHMUP development. A separate combat prototype exploring encounters with Event Horizon (EH).

Still taking shape

Salve Regina is in development. The screenshots show the current open-world and combat prototypes. The gameplay direction is taking shape, while polished graphics are still to come.