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?

Developed in little over a week for the Only One of Any Asset Jam, Queer Edition 🌈 "A Tome in the Attic" is a 5-10 minute visual novel where you meet the mysterious Allin and ask them questions about your grandma.

The game was also revisited for Raise Your Voice Jam, which added full voice acting for Allin.

Features

• <1000 words
• 1 character sprite
• 1 ending
• 1 mysterious tome
• 1 demon guy (they/him)  who somehow knew your grandma

Behind-the-scenes and WIPs posted on Ko-fi!

Credits

Made in Ren'py 7.5.3

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

Voice Acting (Allin): Gale Rivera (twitter)

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)

Game Page Assets (chibis): AndieStardust

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
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