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-fiquick 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


StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
AuthorZac
GenreVisual Novel, Interactive Fiction
Made withRen'Py
TagsCasual, Cute, demon, Feel Good, Narrative, Relaxing, Short, wholesome
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
ATomeintheAttic-1.2-mac.zip 30 MB
Download
ATomeintheAttic-1.2-pc.zip 63 MB

Development log

Comments

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most adorable sh*t I've seen in a hot minute-

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This is so cute!! I also like the GUI elements a lot, and I love the lighting on Allin's sprite.

Thanks so much! :DD

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!!!! omg i loved this!! what a fun cute way to meet your grandma's boyfriend!! all grandmothers deserve a secret demon boytoy in their attic

LMAO banshee !!!! i think ur right tho.,,

thank you for playing πŸ₯ΊπŸ₯Ί

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ahhhh what a darling story!!! it makes me want to know more tbh!

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Thank you sm!!! πŸ’— I'll hopefully be able to write more stories for Allin (+ Hope maybe) in the future  πŸ₯Ί

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This was sooo cute 😭 the casual nature of just.. you and allin talking about your late grandma. it's so sweet and heartwarming. I adore the atmosphere, and the character sprite art is πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–

πŸ’— Thank you so much! I'm very glad I was able to create something you enjoyed πŸ₯Ί

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How wholesome ( κˆα΄—κˆ)

<3 Thank you for playing!! ^^

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Oh, this was so sweet and cute!! I love the idea of learning little things you never knew about family members -- particularly in this case when it's something so otherworldly! LOL

Everything just had this very low-key cozy feel to it that made me want to stay in the world of the game even longer, from the relaxing music to the adorable GUI with the pop-up name cards, and then to Allin himself!! I absolutely loved his design?? The shirt falling off his one shoulder is killing me a bit. And his expressions were too cute! I like how just like... absolutely chill he is about everything, like he's just some groovy little lesser-demon that just so happened to love and have been a huge part of Hope's life and he's just cool with hanging out and talking about himself and the book and the MC's grandma. Makes me so curious about some of the stories that probably exist between the two of them and wanting to see more about their story πŸ€­πŸ’•

At any rate, this was super cute and I really enjoyed it!! What a fantastic job!! I'm going to keep thinking about Allin now πŸ˜­πŸ’•

I'm so so glad you liked this lil story!! Thank you for playing!

I actually designed Allin back when I was a teenager and forgot about them lol OTL,, Very glad I randomly thought about him when the jam started! I never gave him any lore back then, but I fell in love with him while writing >u< Hopefully I can explore their character more in the future!!

Thanks again for the kind words, and for loving Allin too πŸ₯Ί

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A really sweet little story! I enjoyed the wholesomeness of the walk down memory lane Allin and the MC take, bonding over the MC's grandma!

I especially liked the lighting on the sprite and the window behind him to match! Thought it was a great detail :) Nice work!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it <3

I was nervous about matching the sprite to the background, so I'm very grateful you noticed the shading too!!! :D