Bookbound: A Warlock's Tale Act 1
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Story
The city of Una has fallen . All hope seems lost until a young woman awakens an ancient spirit entity to aid her in her quest. In exchange for magical powers, she signs a contract that might cost her dearly.
Features
- 8.3k words
- One true ending plus three bad endings
- An expansive fantasy world with a unique history and culture
- Test your luck! Non-deterministic storytelling with a 🎲 dice-rolling mechanic and old-school RPG feeling
- Choose your own adventure! A total of 34 different decisions and dice-rolls
- Female Protagonist
Content Warnings
Contains strong language, death, blood and topics related to war.
May contain spiders.
Team Members
Created by Mondlicht Games
Editing Act 1 by Faust
Backgrounds created by Mondlicht Games using Stable Diffusion and edited with Gimp.
Sprite Brother Lu: Visual Novel Character Sprite by dandeleight
Sprite Aurelia: Sprite Female Mage by Red Chan
Music/Sound/Graphics Asset List
Blue Star by Color Optimist Licensed undr CC0
2D Six-Sided Die by AveryRe https://opengameart.org/content/2d-six-sided-die Licensed under CC0
Sound and Music
"Wipe Away Those Tears"
Composed by Jonathan Shaw
(www.jshaw.co.uk) Licensed under CC-BY 3.0
Introtheme I by YsOe Mc.G- (https://www.worldofgothic.de/?go=moddb&action=view&fileID=584&cat=3&page=0&order=0) Licensed under Custom License
Wooden dice on wodden table roll by Wuzzy (https://opengameart.org/content/wooden-dice-on-wodden-table-roll) under CC0
Dark Intro by Nikke (https://opengameart.org/content/dark-intro) Licensed under CC0
fato return from evil by Fato Shadow Licensed under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Scorchers Foley Sounds by alkakrab04@gmail.com (https://alkakrab.itch.io/free-medieval-soundtrack-no-copyright) Licensed under No Copyright Notice Needed
Scorchers Foley Sounds by Scorcher24 - (http://nightlight2d.de). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Thwack Sounds Created by Jordan Irwin (AntumDeluge) licensed under Creative Common Zero (CC0)
“Rising Tension”. Music by Marcelo Fernández (http://www.marcelofernandezmusic.com). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Ambient Sounds by tabletopaudio.com Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Created for the Spooktober VN Jam 2022
Extended for the PHANTASIA GAME JAM 2022
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Development log
- 1.3 Minor ReleaseDec 08, 2022
- 1.2 PHANTASIA GAME JAM ReleaseOct 31, 2022
- Analyzing the feedbackOct 23, 2022
- Things I learned from making my first VNOct 17, 2022
- 1.1 Bugfix ReleaseOct 08, 2022
Comments
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I've always been a fan of tales where you have contracts with spirits and magical beings going on :D It's just one of those kinds of subjects that draws me in because I like seeing how the relationship between two characters that are bound together by something progresses. It was certainly a fun dynamic to watch unfold here :3
The dice rolling reminded me of how I used to cheat on the old choose-your-own-adventure books I read as a kid before VNs were a thing x3 Whenever a battle popped up, I would pretend I had just rolled all 6's xD Yay, I win! But, of course, I couldn't do that here, haha. The result... well, I suppose I won't say since it could count as spoilers. It's a neat mechanic anyways!
I'm intrigued to see what the future holds. Good luck with the rest of development :3
Hey! Congratulations on this game. I love the lore ^, and the background and the ambient sounds. The dice mechanic gives a role-play feeling that I loved :D
Oh, this was so lovely!!! It had an incredibly storybook-esque feel to the whole thing, starting even from the beginning with the different images popping up, just like the prologue to a story. And the music fit so well and did a wonderful job of setting the tone.
What stood out the most to me were the characters! I had no idea what to make of our new spirit friend at the beginning—but the more the MC interacted with him, the more I enjoyed him. They had such a wonderful dynamic between them that brought a grin to my face more than once. And I quite enjoyed the glimpse we got of Aurelia. She was quite sneaky in her flirting heheh đź¤
The dice mechanic was a ton of fun!! I've never seen anything like it in a VN before? It really helped hammer in that fantasy DnD feel of the whole thing. Plus I was able to feel quite proud of myself battling a spider and coming out on top HAHA.
Overall incredibly charming. I'm quite interested to know more about the world and the spirits now. And I hope we get to have more interactions with our spirit friend, as well! A really lovely job with this! I enjoyed it a lot! đź’•