A Tome in the Attic

Grandma would often read me stories from a mysterious book every night before bed. After her passing, the tome and the stories seemed to die with her. But during a visit back home, I found it amongst the clutter. As I reached out to touch it… A demon appeared?

Created for the Only One of Any Asset Jam, Queer Edition 🌈 May still receive updates (additional GUI customization, illustrated background, polish) before the the deadline :)

Features

• <1000 words(5-10min)
• 1 sprite
• 1 ending
• 1 mysterious tome
• 1 demon guy  who somehow knew your grandma

Credits

Made in Ren'py 7.5.3

Art, narrative, programming: JamKats (ko-fi | quick links)

Background: "Old Attic / Dachboden" by nedo on Sketchfab, modified by JamKats (licensed under CC BY 4.0)

Music: "Done With Work" by David Renda  (licensed for royalty-free commercial use)

special thanks to

my wife who let me drag her to local coffee shops and libraries, listened to me talk about lin, and reminded me to eat while i worked on this

the gsnk discord server for letting me post dev stuff in the gaming channel (especially andie for editing the story i ended up scraping for this one, and moon for being the first person to play the 0.5 version ♥)