The Wishmaker
On a cool summer night four friends sit around the campfire and tell each other spooky stories. The winner of the best story will get a free dinner at a restaurant of their choice! Sounds like good fun, right? But... what's the matter with Stacy?
This game was made for the Tales to Thrill Jam 2024 using the theme Forgotten Promise.
For the best experience, I recommend downloading the game, as some features and effects may not work in the browser version.
Features
- Short - approx 1200 words
- 3 endings
Content Warnings (Spoilers)
Swearing, manipulation, fear, body possession, minor body horror, death
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Comments
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Ohh WOW this caught me off-guard in the best way possible! First of all the fire animation and all the ways you use it is really cool, the sprites and are lovely-!
The Wishmaker as a tale (as it's told in the story!) is a really simple but effective horror story, on the surface/around the campfire it might not've sounded like much-
Which is why I legit gasped audibly when the choice came, I really enjoyed the direction this took!
Aww thank you Don, I’m really happy you enjoyed it! This game was a little experiment with some effects that I hadn’t used before like the speech bubbles and the animations. I really wanted to get the vibe that you were around a campfire and listening to a scary story. I’m happy the choice gave you such a surprise haha! Thank you for playing!
I am very glad that you, like seraten04, make your own solo games. Although I adore games from Hyakuten Games, it is still interesting to learn about your individual approaches to creativity. This game is very organic in its laconism. Although I would like to know Paul's wish...))
Thanks for the comment Malia and thank you for playing so many of our games! It really means a lot! I’m so glad you enjoyed the game 😁. I still feel like quite a newbie when it comes to making solo games so I try and do something a bit different each game so I can learn more about writing and the game engine. I’m hoping to create some longer games in the future as well 😁.
I’d like to think that Paul wished for something selfless at the end but who knows….
Thanks again ❤️😁
You are doing great! You have something to tell and express to others and it is wonderful. It is difficult for me to express it in English, but in your stories there is some urban glimmer that shines through all the fairy tales of games even in ''Wolf in the Woods''. And it is intriguing. Maybe it is just a mature view of old stories. Anyway, I wish you strength and patience to express it in a long game one day.
Thank you so much for the lovely words ❤️. I’m so happy that my games give you that feeling. I feel very inspired by fairytales and I really like how morals are intertwined in those stories 😁.
Thank you for your wish. I hope that like The Wishmaker I can make it come true. 😊