Hi everyone!! I'm really excited to participate in this Game Jam, I've never made a game before so this kinda inspired me to try it.

I don't want to spoil to much, but you play as a child who has gone off-path and lost their way in the forest, and find a large pine tree with a small entrance at the bottom. They decide to go through and on the other side it's /still/ forest, but the thing that's different about is there's talking woodland creatures in it!

I decided to use RPG Maker 2003 to do all the stuff in, and probably make small chip-tunes with Famitracker, nothing super detailed though. But regardless I'm having a lot of fun already designing the world, NPCS, items, furniture, etc! So far I have about... 10% of it done but I've got a long ways to go but I'm hoping I can finish this project on time!!!

(here's some sprites I've been working on)

^^ i agree these sprites look super cute!!! i cant wait to see this finished

i saw these sprites on tumblr and loved them. i need to be friends with the animals

Holy heck, I know other people have said this before, but you've done a really good job of capturing the charm of early game boy era games! You did a good job at attributing detail, having enough to convey what you're showing while not overcomplicating it! It can be easy to do with this 8-bit style!

I look forward to seeing what your'e making!

omg i absolutely love your sprites!! they're so adorable and so well articulated, every pixel feels like it's perfectly placed. i'm so excited to chat with all these forest pals * u*

Day 2:

I pretty much got the Title screen, Logo, and itch.io page done! here's a little sneaky peaky!!

Tomorrow, I'm going to continue making my game assests and see how much I can get done!

I YELLED so much when i saw your sprites on tumblr i love them so much!! i love your choice of colors too aaa i'm so excited to see your screenshots!!! :3c

THOSE SPRITES! I wanna hug 'em all.

Day 3:

Oh boy, so I did a lot more assets today (making sure things align properly also took up a lot of time :^(( ) and tested some stuff out in-game!

(havent fixed the text yet in RPG2k3 but just wanted to see how the stuff looked so far!)

here i messed up by not making the spider stationary so now it just flies

I ALSO made some sound effects in Mixcraft today, just a couple for menu selection and stuff!! But I feel like I got a lot done 8')

frogs... i love them.. small frogs... this is so A+...

yesssssss this is so adorable i'm so excited to see this all together on screen!!

AHHH! I'm so excited to see them move! :D

Day 4:

((wow i finished these just before 12am nice))

Did a lot more asset stuff today! As well as the system graphics, tilesets, and added a new sprite! They're a little bird kid :''^)

(this took a while to fix/align properly but I finally did it, now we have bridges!)

(and our friends have someplace to live!!)

(it's pretty barren inside, but it'll start looking homey in no time!)

tomorrow I'll probably be working on adding more character sprites! I've been looking forward to it all week :''^o

*tenderly kisses every single sprite and screenshot on the top of its head*

I love it all and I love sideways acrobat spider best of all. This tiny spider child is free and it will not be contained.