The Dollmaker's Shop
A downloadable game
This game was created for Devtalk's Spooktober Jam 2022.
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You're a lone soul, having just woken up in a new world you have never seen before, with one task; to find a vessel. Luckily, there is a wizard in town who can help you do just that... But on an unfortunate time limit. Enjoy this short yet atmospheric visual novel, and discover its various endings!
1.0 is the version that was added before the deadline which will be judged. 1.1 Fixes an error found in one of the endings + supports Linux. If you want the full experience as a player, please download v1.1!
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This was a solo project. Coding, art and writing was all done by Umbrores @ Sycamore Nest
Free to use pictures from www.pexels.com were used to create the backgrounds
Free music from www.soundimage.org and https://opengameart.org/ (further details and credits are given in-game)
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With enough feedback, we will optimize the game, increase its length and add more assets after the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam has ended.
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Enjoyable quirky halloween themed experience. Definitely a cool take on the afterlife, really liked the world-building
I'll say that the game is well made and simple, the latter part is to be expected because of it being made for a jam. There was only one bug that I encountered, one ending encountered an error when I went for it. Which was fixed in 1.1.
The story is, like said earlier, fairly simple. You play as a ghost thrust into a new world and in need of a body. There's a total of four characters that you see, but you only really talk with two of them and even then only in depth of a single one. Still, simple isn't bad. The story, as it currently is, is focused on how the protagonist interacts with the dollmaker and what body they choose to inhabit temporarily. This amounts to being either nice or rude to him and choosing one of a few options in regards to your body. There's no bad endings present, with the worst ending being that the dollmaker gets a little annoyed if you were consistently rude to him and chose not to get a body.
In terms of characters, the short length keeps us from really exploring the characters in depth, but what's seen is consistent and well written. What's set up for the setting is interesting even there wasn't much of an opportunity to explore it given the short length.
Overall, there's only one nitpick that I have. The text in choices are a bit inconsistent in how they're written, some all lower case and some with the first letter being capitalized properly.
Tl;DR Short but sweet game.
For where to expand if you decide to do so, I'd like more of a chance to interact with the other characters at the party. It seems the most opportune chance to expand on them and do some world building at the same time. An alternative would be to add some more wandering before Sasha and Phoebe appear so that there'd be more of a description of the setting.