The Argonaut Experiment is one of my long-standing worldbuilding projects, with the likes of Mysenvar and Hithered—all share the same origin.
Synopsis
The Galaxy is not unlike our own Milky Way—bar its absence of humans… TAE’s Galaxy is one full of a host of other sophontic species: the Horun, Zemynans, Gazanians, Askr and Embla, Tezcatl, and Nemonites. Each unique and distinct from one another in a million ways. But when the Argonauts arrive and kickstart The Galaxy’s sophonts into the age of wormholes and Ichor things begin to heat up.
TAE is a grand setting, with thousands of years of history and hundreds of stories to be told between them. But ultimately TAE is a world about overcoming adversity. About how so many distinctly different species, with their own histories and cultures and challenges, can come together and build something together.
I believe out of my other two projects—those being Mysenvar and Hithered—The Argonaut Experiment may be the one with the most potential. The premise of TAE is easy enough for anyone to understand: It’s like Star Wars but all the aliens actually look alien. Where TAE shines, like many other projects, is in the number of different stories which can be told within the setting.
There’s a lot of projects I would love to do with TAE: simple videos exploring the setting, short stories, whole novels, comic books, animations, games, TTRPG campaigns, and so much more! I think it would be awesome to have the opportunity to make an animated series taking place in TAE, or a feature length puppet film. I want to use every form of media to explore different aspects of the setting with different mediums.
Into the Oversea
This is the big main project I’ve been working on. Into the Oversea is an interactive fiction text adventure game where the player assumes the identity of a Nemonite trapped within the confines of a strange being known as The Overseer. The player must figure out why they are here and how they might be able to escape.