You're totally right — the game throws you in without much explanation, and that’s something I need to fix.
The main chapter, The Nephite’s Last Stand, is based on one of the final chapters of The Book of Mormon. You play as Moroni, the last general of a collapsing civilization. It’s meant to feel grim — like a losing battle against overwhelming odds. That’s intentional thematically, but I know the gameplay doesn’t explain that well yet.
That said, the current win/loss conditions are honestly a bit hacky — like how it says “You Win!!” even when the enemy takes your king. That’s just a placeholder and not how the final version should behave. Definitely a rough edge.
The other two chapters are more straightforward — not really tied to the narrative, just extra chess-style game modes for fun and variety.
Eventually I’d love to add better intros, story context, and real win conditions. But for now, this version is pretty barebones. I appreciate the feedback though — it helps me figure out where players are getting lost.
May I know what you mean by no feedback when clicking on a piece? Tiles are hilights Cyan when clicking on them and moves are available. Though I’m realizing I should test blue-green color blindness with my dad…
Thank you so much for making a video of your playthrough! And I'm sorry to say that the one tree was all I got to at the time. Truthfully story writing is not my strong suit, I'd be interested to hear what you thought might have been down there, but the theme just screamed PUT CRYPTIC STUFF IN IT. So I slapped in a few scripture references. Next time I'll at least find a way to write "Yeah so sry there's nothing more but like you can fall more if u want" but in an eloquent sounding way.
And I don't know about you but I felt like the platforms got too vertical after a while, so I tweaked the math to have a more even chance of horizontal and vertical platforms, and no underside platforms (Though props to you for getting one!)
Thanks for your message; glad you liked it overall! Yeah I definitely wished I could have put more secrets in, but I'm still relatively new to stories so I just managed to slap a two scripture verses in.
Really not sure when or if I'll get back to it but I was thinking of having it open up to outer space and / or having a ying yang with two trees. But it's all up in the air, so really anything could have gone! If you happen to think of cool stuff I could have put down there let me know, haha
Pretty fun, especially for your first game. One thing that might be nice is if the hitboxes of the obstacles were a little bit smaller than they look, it seems like that might make the game have more exciting moments
Maybe I didn't get far enough but I was expecting to see like a deep plot emerge, but it seemed like it was just silly jokes? I'm sure other people might like that though :)
Best game in the jam in my opinion. A lot of them are "What if you were bad instead of good?" but this one is having the player be good in a very different way. Good job!
