Atman 0.1.0

Atman's first release: the MVP, a first-person game about Advaita Vedānta on the Strata engine.

You wake in a river village on a spring afternoon, with a body, a name and a list of chores.

• At dusk there are snakes on the path to the ghat, until the lamp shows them to be rope.
• The potter has a wheel: throw pots, name them, see them as clay, and break one to find the space was never in it.
• The codex holds each verse the game teaches, in Devanagari, IAST and English, with its sources.
• Once both teachings are done and you have slept, the after-mode begins. It never ends, and nothing is scored.

Download for Windows x64 or Linux x64 below, or play in a browser at https://atman.play.danielstephenson.dev on a computer or a phone. The README in each download says how to start it; F1 shows the controls in the game.

New since the playtest (#13)

• Places: houses and places are named on screen as you near them. Your door is indigo, the potter's ochre, and the shrine's saffron under a pennant.
• Night: a brighter lamp that reaches further, a lamp lit by every door after sunset, and a hint to light your lamp.
• Progress: a NEXT line that says what comes next. A new codex page is announced, and the after-mode opens with words of its own.
• Sound: all of it synthesized as the game plays. M or the Sound button turns it off.
• Phones: the words name the buttons, and messages are easier to read.

Known

• The English of Gauḍapāda's verses (the rope and the pot-space pages) is a working translation awaiting review, and the codex says so.
• macOS is not built. The Windows build is not signed, so Windows may ask before it runs.

Saves: %APPDATA%\Atman\default on Windows, ~/.local/share/atman/default on Linux.