The Constellation Games Semi-Official Episode Guide
A production of The Great Hall Of The People And Also Science
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Constellation Games is a
serial novel about space aliens and video games and love and computer
programming. I've set up this page to keep readers up to date with all
the extras surrounding the story.
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Extras
Ariel
Blum and Tetsuo Milk
have Twitter feeds that are updated in time with the
serialization. The feed is archived
here.
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Episode Guide
These chapter summaries contain minor spoilers so
you can find the chapter you're looking for. Chapters with sex scenes
are clearly marked, as a free service to you, the reader.
Part One: Hardware
Space aliens dig up the fucking moon and build a space station out
of the rocks. Ariel reviews Caveman Chaos. The Constellation
figures out how to use the Internet.
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or HTML.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel's date goes poorly. A hippie prophecies doom. Ariel tries to
convince a superhuman AI that he's worth assigning an anthropologist
to. At the AI's request, Ariel reviews Quexx.
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[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel flies to Brazil on business and is tempted to stay. He chats
online with Curic, a Constellation anthropologist, who drop-ships him
a USB key containing the Constellation Database of Electronic Games of
a Certain Complexity.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel, Jenny, and Bai wear each others' clothes. Curic drop-ships
Ariel an antique Farang computer called the Brain Embryo.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel pitches a business idea to Reflex Games, and a slightly
different idea to Jenny. He reviews Gatekeeper and the Brain
Embryo computer.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
The Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs has some questions for
Ariel, and agents Krakowski and Fowler are on the case. Ariel
reviews Handle the Real Style. Jenny wonders what's the deal
with Papua New Guinea.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel hosts a cookout. Jenny disapproves of Bai's girlfriend
Dana. Despite Ariel's best efforts, Bizarro Kate sets up the Xbox.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Curic does her part to Keep Austin Weird.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel can't get an English translation of Sayable Spice
because Curic lays a guilt-trip on him. But he is able to play a
remake made 75 million years later, Recapture That Remarkable
Taste.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
At Bai's request, Ariel jailbreaks Dana Light.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel takes a shuttle to Ring City. Tetsuo Milk and Ashley Somn
meet him in the docking bay, and take him on a tour of Luna. That's
"the moon", in case you don't speak Latin.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Tetsuo Milk shows Ariel his historical recreations of Ip Shkoy
society. Ariel reviews Ev luie Aka's Ultimate DIY
Lift-Off. Tetsuo and Ashley can't keep their hands off each other.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel is disappointed by the accommodations in Human Ring. But he
hangs out with an astronaut, and that seems to go okay.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel's mother and Jenny both have their suspicions of Dr. Tammy
Miram. A complex weightless maneuver [sex] is attempted. Ariel reviews A
Tower of Sand.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Tammy left something at home. Curic gives Ariel a gift he can't
accept. Back on Earth, Ariel's debriefing is interrupted. PLUS: more
sex!
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Everything goes to shit. Ariel eats a really lousy burrito, and drinks a lot of wine, and reviews *.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Part Two: Software
Ariel gets a phone call from Tammy that cheers him up. In a
high-stakes brunch, he convinces Jenny not to abandon Crispy Duck
Games.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel tries to convince Curic to upgrade Dana's AI. It's a bit
difficult because he can only communicate with her through the
BEA. Tetsuo reviews Pôneis Brilhantes 5.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel and Bai pick up Dana at the spaceport. Ariel
and Bai and Svetlana Sveta pick up some translation software at the
spaceport. Ariel risks tentacle rape and doesn't even get a game
review out of it.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Svetlana Sveta begins work at Crispy Duck Games. Ariel and Jenny
play Tactical Nuclear Exchange. Ariel gets kind of obsessed
with an Internet video.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel has a really weird night. The Her superorganism makes a decision. Contains sexual pair bonding!
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Fowler and Krakowski ruin Ariel's life. But not before he and Svetlana have a chance to review Legend of the Bystander.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel yells at Krakowski. Ariel and Dana yell at each other. Ariel
and Jenny yell at each other. Lotta hostility in this one.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Bai and Tetsuo throw a party, with door prizes. Curic restores some
things from backup. Ariel and Tetsuo troll Krakowski.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Ariel is worried about Curic, much to Tetsuo's chagrin. Ariel
and Tetsuo review Temple Sphere. Tetsuo sweet-talks Ariel's
mother.
[Author commentary | Twitter archive]
Credits
Most of this stuff is by me, Leonard Richardson. Constellation Games is published by Candlemark & Gleam.
Ariel's Twitter profile image created using Pony Creator.
Jenny's Twitter profile image drawn by Beth Lerman.
Crispy Duck Games logo drawn by Brandon Eck.
Bai's Twitter profile image taken from Flickr user jcwade.