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Thank you so much! I can't say I've had many plays, but it was a bit of a passion project for me anyway

▶️ Play Starstruck: https://dmgreening.itch.io/starstruck

Starstruck: a love story told in fifteen piano pieces

Hi, I’m Dave Greening. I write piano music, and Starstruck is the game I built around it.

It’s April 1957. You’ve come about a piano advertised for sale at a house on the hill. The pianist who lives there hasn’t left his house in twenty-seven years, and the piano isn’t really for sale. Something happened one night in 1930, and he has never stopped waiting for it to be undone.

How it plays

The whole game lives inside an old concert programme lying on a wooden desk. Each place you explore is a plate printed across its pages. The margins fill with someone’s pencil notes and doodles, and the pages turn as you go.

• Explore the house: find the torn halves of his music, solve the puzzles he left behind (a padlock, a star chart, an old wireless, a calendar), and piece together what happened.
• Play the music: whenever you bring him a piece, he plays it. Then you become the light: you move through a painted night sky catching the notes his music gives off while a comet falls into the world around you.
• Play well: how much light you gather across the story decides how it ends.

What’s in it

• Fifteen original piano pieces, each with its own world: a meadow under a ringed planet, a sea in the mist, a forest full of fireflies, and more.
• A point-and-click story in three acts, with two endings.
• Concert mode for replaying any piece you’ve unlocked, with harder difficulties, companions and charms.
• It saves as you go, and you can carry your progress between browsers with a save code.

It’s a quiet, sad and hopeful little game about time, regret, and the things we don’t say. It plays best with the sound on, in a browser on a computer, or on a phone held sideways.

Thank you for playing. If it moves you, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.

Hey everyone!

I recently finished Starstruck, a small browser game built around my original solo piano music.

The idea is pretty simple: you guide a glowing orb through space, collecting particles that appear in time with the music. As you play, those notes gradually build real constellations across the sky.

I wanted to make something that felt less like a traditional rhythm game and more like getting lost inside a piece of music — relaxing, atmospheric, and a little bit hypnotic.

✨ Original piano soundtrack
🌌 Multiple songs and constellations
⭐ Simple mouse-based gameplay
🎹 Notes become particles you collect
🖥️ Playable directly in your browser

You can play it here:

https://dmgreening.itch.io/starstruck

I'd genuinely love to hear what people think, particularly about the feel of the gameplay and how well the music and visuals work together. I'm still learning a lot about making games, so feedback is very welcome.