Tubby Tomes - Demo

You awake as Claire, a healing mage working under the Adventurer’s Guild. After falling into a cave with your party members, things look grim. Your companions are lost, you have no supplies, and the cavern you’ve entered is inhabited by monsters of all kinds. Use an unorthodox way of problem solving to find your allies and escape this nightmare!

A Twine Text-Adventure playable with mouse alone, access inventory and spellbook on the sides of the page.

Made kinda quickly, but I’ve been sitting on this for like a year now and just need to release it. I had more stuff planned for the demo and wanted to spruce it up a lot, but if I follow every whim I have then the demo will never release, let alone the full game. I already have a lot planned for the full game and would love to actually get around to making it.

This game is my testament that I am a little tired of working with 3D art, Unity, and all that other stuff. I just wanted to write words and design characters :slight_smile: . If people like it, I’ll likely try and update the demo in the future with some images. I planned on doing 3D renders, but you know… Blender… :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

I’d appreciate any feedback, and of course, please let me know if something is broken so I can fix it. Thank you!!!

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I’ll post more/update this when I have more to say.
For now, just a proofreading thing: “formalness”. You probably meant “formality”.
“Pheremones” → “pheromones”.

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Is there meant to be a way to cast or is that not in the game yet? I’ve used all inventory items, interacted with everything, and attempted to cast on every screen in the game, but so far, nothing.

I see where we’re probably meant to cast, it just has no effect. If it’s the catalyst I’m missing the interaction that says “you pick up some loaves of bread” adds nothing to the inventory.

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There should be info on what the spell targets and what the prerequisites are. Forgot to mention, but the demo end will have a clear “This is the end of the demo” moment.

Make sure you’ve used all of your items and it should be evident where to cast.

Btw there is currently a bug where if you do not ask the minotaur lady who she is to deepen your connection before you use the tool belt you won’t have a deep enough connection to use the spell.

Accidently ran into this when I was playing the game and got interrupted so I just replayed but skipped the dialogue the second time.

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Whoa ok thats a big bug. Ill try and patch it tonight, thanks for letting me know

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Fixed the bug! Thank you again for pointing that out.

Also fixed the pheromones spelling. I looked online and saw that ‘formalness’ and ‘formality’ mean the same thing, so I think I’m gonna keep ‘formalness’ because I associate ‘formality’ with it’s other definition. Thank you @eatfortwo for pointing those out tho.