Understory
Join Juniper as she tells her grandchild about her strange stint as a forester in the Pacific Northwest, c. late 1970s 🌲
Note: This game performs the smoothest when it's downloaded. If the font's kerning seems to be weirdly spaced out in the HTML5 build, hit "F" to go into fullscreen mode, and the issue should be fixed!
- The first installment of a 3-act narrative! 🌲
- Intuitive, point-and-click mouse controls 🖱️
- Stylized, original 2D art with an analog feel 🎨
- Mouse: Left-click to interact and advance text
- F: Enter or leave fullscreen mode
- ESC: Bring up the preferences menu
- Scroll wheel / page up and page down keys: Roll back to prior dialogue
- Art, Animation, Programming & Narrative Support — Jaylus (@roman_hyacinths)
- Narrative Design & Music — Katie (@fakehiking)
Special thanks to Dutt1ez for initial prototype programming. SFX from Epidemic Sound. Ren'Py kinetic text tags courtesy of Daniel Westfall.
The first act of this in-development project was made in about two weeks for Just Play Jam: A Game Jam for Climate Futures.
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I LOVE the borders you've added to each scene. It's clear that they must have taken extra work to complete, but they help characterize each scene and also contain each moment in time as the player switches back and forth between the story and the frame narrative. Plus they have that Ivan Bilibin, storybook, Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett je n'est ce quoi.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment!! I poured a lot of thought & time into the borders and am so glad you liked them :)