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.

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 are being posted on ko-fi!

Credits

Made in Ren'py 7.5.3

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

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