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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #1 | 4.622 | 4.622 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.578 | 4.578 |
| Overall | #30 | 3.537 | 3.537 |
| Fun | #31 | 3.489 | 3.489 |
| Accessibility | #67 | 2.911 | 2.911 |
| Audio | #83 | 3.044 | 3.044 |
| Graphics | #88 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Controls | #89 | 2.889 | 2.889 |
Ranked from 45 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
Godot 4.2
Wildcards Used
Transfer takeover, actions have consequences, turtles all the way down
Game Description
Switch between playing as an adventurer and a librarian, as they work together to solve a mythical mystery and find a missing medallion. The story you create affects the world you explore. Can you collect all the books and verses to make sure the story has a happy ending?
How does your game tie into the theme?
Explore different mini levels, all set in the world of famous tales from Folklore.
Source(s)
No
Discord Username(s)
thewonderingvagabond, fizzmn
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
This is our third time
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It's weird and I love it. It lags a bit on my laptop and there's a number of bugs that happened when I was dragging the books around. The concept is great. The art is charming.
However, I think mechanics is where the game kinda suffers. The character is slow. The climbing is painful. You can't move side to side while climbing.
Nevertheless, I had a good time while playing. It was laggy and I have no idea why. Maybe my laptop was hot.
Thanks for your feedback and glad you enjoyed it overall! We could definitely work on the mechanics more - we were experimenting with bone 2d animations which had a few challenges in implementation, though you can move side to side while climbing if you also hit space. ;) That's a shame it was laggy - were you playing the web version?
Pressing space would mean I also start falling which I kinda didn't want.
Yeah, I was playing the web version.
Holy cow this game is clever! At first, I thought the game is kind of like "Little To The Left" but as soon as I clicked that book icon, I went "Ohhhhh!! Niceeee!!". lol
The theme is also well-incorporated. Beautifully done. Awesome!
Thanks so much - glad you liked it!
I think this game really uses the theme of folklore well - excellent job! I cheesed a few of the verses with some tricky parkour, but couldn't figure out where the fox medallion was. Overall I think this is one of the best games based around the theme!
Thank you! Yes the fox medallion is one of the trickier ones to find. ;)
Fun concept, pretty cool execution, I managed to bug it by picking up the book before the tutorial came out, great!! Congrats man
Thanks - glad you liked it!
A fun and unique concept! I loved that it wasn't just about matching the line to the book - having each story fragment do something different in every book gave it a charm and unique exploration mechanic that was a lot of fun to mess around with! I'd work a bit on the collisions - I was able to enter blocks at times, and the death planes' positions sometimes felt a bit arbitrary and needlessly punishing. Regardless, amazing work, and a blast to play!
Thanks so much - yes we really tried to come up with something unique, so we're glad that came across and was fun to play! Thanks also for the feedback around collisions and death planes, these are good points.
a very original idea and use of the theme! This really also flexes my knowledge of what I can remeber with these story books.
Thank you! Hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane. :)
Woah, this game is really cool! Nice job!
Thanks very much!
Genius mechanic with the books being level fragments. It felt very complete.
Thank you - glad you liked it!
Great puzzle platformer! I played through quite a bit but couldn't figure out how to get the last medallion. I would have preferred if the places that you died were slightly more obvious because sometimes you die in the air and other times you don't. Although, it does fits great with the theme really well and I did really enjoy the mechanics!
Glad you enjoyed it! That last medallion is a little tricky do find. ;) Thanks for the feedback - we'll definitely keep that in mind!
Very creative concept! I would work on the graphics and some smaller bugs, but the concept is great! Don't change it!
If I unzip the Linux version I get the zipped windows version. Are you sure this is correct? Anyhow it works in html and with wine.
Everything works with wine! Seriously, thanks for letting us know, we'll check the uploads. If we decide to develop the project further we'll definitely look at polishing things up - all assets were handmade by one artist within the game jam period and the whole game was made by three people.
I really like the idea of piecing stories together, collected a few medallions but I could not figure out how to obtain the verse on top of the house in the beanstalk story. I hope the pacing could be faster such as speedier character movement or allowing only a few books to be active instead of all of them. Then again, great job with the mechanic!
Thanks for the feedback! We tried to make some of the collectables tricky to reach - maybe try using the Fakir in a different book. ;)
A quite original concept, very creative!
Needs a little polishing, but overall, good job! :D
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, this is pretty fantastic! It took me minute to get it but once I did… very cool and unique.
It would be cool if the music/instrumentation smoothly changed as you moved from one “book” level to another to represent the story/era.
I think you should keep working on this! Shows tremendous promise.
Thanks so much - glad you liked it!
Very good, this game has a lot of content for a gamejam, congratulations! Just a small detail, but I had trouble clicking on the book to start the platformer phase, I don't know if it's my fault but the button worked 1 time out of 2.
It might be that the webversion is a bit slower then the downloadable game? Thanks for playing!
Enjoyed this game a lot, I tried my best but couldn't get the fifth medallion piece. I was trying to think of what the phrase swapping mechanic reminded of, I think it was 'Beacon Pines'. It's a really nice idea, with a lot of potential for a puzzle platformer game, especially within the Storytelling/folklore space. I'd love to see it developed fully.
You did really well getting 4 of them! Some are quite difficult to get to! Thanks for playing!
The concept of this game is very interesting and I enjoyed my little playthrough. Didn’t get to finish it but looks promising, it just needs a little bit more time. It is what it is with game jams.
Thank you for your kind words! Time... yes, it just seems to disappear on us!
This was a really cool game! I liked it a lot. The platforming needs some polish: it's very clunky. Really liked the puzzle of how to put the books together to change the level.
Thank you for playing! Did you play the web version or did you download the game?
I played the web version.
Really good concept of level progression :) The music and puzzles were great!
Thank you so much for your kind words. Thanks for playing!
I enjoyed playing this! It was clever and cute.
I got as far as finding all the books a 3 verses, but then got stuck in a state where the Grape and Fox story would not stop having the beanstalk, and I wasn't able to get it to appear anywhere else.
Solid and original submission. Great work!
Thanks for your comment! The beanstalks are intended to be permanent after they appear the first time. Was it still stuck after you tried moving the Beanstalk verse to a different book?
Yeah, it was still stuck after I moved it to other books, and wouldn't appear in the other ones.
The beanstalk might not appear in every book. Or it might not appear as you would think ;)
Thanks for playing
really liked the split between librarian / player, and nice sounds. a la 'sorry, but the princess is in another castle'
Thank you for your kind words and thanks for playing!