Play Interactive Storybook
In Which We Hunt for a Maple's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme usage | #3 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Overall | #4 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
| Style | #5 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
| Controls | #5 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
| Playability | #5 | 2.909 | 2.909 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I really love the idea. Reminds me of those fantasy adventure finding books, "Sword Quest" was one, from child hood where you had to go through and find certain items in a picture, like a where's waldo book. Nice usage of the theme too! Well written story too! Good Submission well done!
Thanks. I'm really glad we had time to do the flower mechanic, though I would have been at peace if all we'd gotten around to was the story, illustrations, and what I internally called the "spine" -- the programming that actually displays the content.
I actually dinged it for being a visual novel when I played it on stream. And now I find out we could click on things. My bad. The story was easily the best of any game. Felt like an actual Winnie the Pooh cartoon episode. LOVED the pun. Since there is a game element (my fault for missing it), this is my top choice. I would recommend making the flowers pulse or glow a little to make it more obvious what to do.
Well, we'll have to wait another 36 years before the Disney version enters the public domain and we can start using Disney's rendition of the character. No, this was exclusively based on the original two books Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. I read those two books for the first time during the jam and packed in Easter eggs accordingly. While the Disney version was mostly faithful to the original, there were a few surprises they didn't adapt, such as Kanga and Roo's reception to the woods as cooked up by Rabbit. 10 Internet points to the first one to name the one book-exclusive character present.
Credit goes to my sister (only credited in-game) for the pun.
Unlike our previous entry, we do not plan on further development, even though we had to cut an idea involving letting you re-color the pictures with collected flowers.
A nice read with some great music.
The story and design are so cute!
Needing to collect the flowers is a nice way of making it interactive :)
I thought so. Sadly, we had to eject a mechanic where you could color the illustrations with the flowers you'd found. We found a plugin for changing the palate of a sprite, and I even used it put Owl's maple leaf on the cover in gold. But development challenges meant diverting my programmer time into filling out our illustrations. (The flowers, Outside Rabbit's house, then Pooh sneaking and onwards)
At first I thought it was a book:)
That was a part of the idea.
Fun little concept I had to play twice to realize I had to collect the things for the end. You guys definitely took the "Mayday" concept completely differently than the other creators.
Last time, the organizers were a little disappointed that everyone basically followed the idea they used in the promotional art. "Mayday" doesn't give much room for interpretation besides being in/assisting with distress and flower celebrations. The idea of a day of permission was floated, but one of our team members came up with the perfect Pooh bear pun between May Pole and Maple, I did a quick sanity check to make sure maple trees were present in the UK, and we had our game idea.
There are actually three variations on the final illustration/music, and four variations on the text, if you want to find everything.