Curse of the Juniper Tree
Curse of the Juniper tree is a tale of two siblings, a cursed tree and an isolated village.
It is a short kinetic visual novel featuring 2d exploration. Walk around the snowy village and talk to its inhabitants!
Story is loosely based off the fairytale called The Juniper Tree by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812.
Made in one month for 2023 Spooktober Game Jam.
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FEATURES
- 2D exploration
- 30 minutes to 1 hour game time (10k Words)
- Multiple CGs
Art / Dev / Writer
Tanaw
Writer
MUSIC and SFX
Dova S - Noru
ひとりごと
ざわめきを遠く
satisfaction
落陽
SFX Sounds from Zapsplat.com and Pixabay.com
Made with Dialogue System and Corgi Engine in Unity.
SpecialSkillsEffectsPack from Unity Asset Store
WARNING:
Scenes include situations of death, blood, family conflict, and disturbing imagery.
UPDATE!
V1.1 - Fixes an issue where you see a speech bubble that you can't interact with in the first area. The bubble has been removed but you should still be able to trigger the convo by moving into that area.
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When I tell you I sobbed.
its pretty and sad
This is a treasure, literally the most beautiful masterpiece.
My notebook is a pitiful machine - it's a Chromebook - and it almost turned itself into a burning village with this ending but oh god it was so much worth it almost burned myself with it to experience this game.
Ah, now my tears can cool it down just enough for me to write this comment.
very sad, the art is beautiful, the colors are beautiful, the sounds, so pretty
This was so beautiful, and made me want to cry ;0; well done!
Absolutely lovely in every way, with a beautiful story, graphics, and music! 💕
I wanna cry, this was beautiful!
The game's just outstanding, the added 2D exploration just adds a big layer of playability to it, heck, I didn't run in time when it said I had to! :(
The art is gorgeous, so is the music. And the programming, I mean, the constantly moving characters was such a great touch!
Loved the plot, the lore, and how it unfolded. Saw it coming, yet it didn't change a single bit of how I felt about it. Sad, but hopeful in the end :')
I do have a question however, are there alternate endings?
Still amazed about the amount of work put into this game, and love the whole vibe and character designs. However, we got stuck in front of the house and could not interact with it. Really wanted to progress more, hopefully these bugs can be fixed~
Hi! Thank you so much, that means so much! Can I ask which part you got stuck on and which build you're using?
Pretty early in the game, when we are able to move the character. We couldn’t interact with the speech bubble that has the ‘!, space’ . Neither the space button or e button trigger anything. Windows user btw
hi! Thank you for letting me know! Can you let me know if restarting/downloading the latest build helps? Or let me know the exact steps/instance where it happens? I'm unable to reproduce it using the latest windows build I'm so sorry! ; o ;
so it's this area I'm stuck at. tried the second time. same problem, both browser and windows download file. walking is fine, conversation was fine, just that environment interaction isn't working.
Hi! Is this the convo where Ilya says that she still needs to look for Esfir? If so, aa yes, the convo that plays is the convo that bubble triggers, i forgot to deactivate the speech bubble so it's not supposed to be interactable! you can move to the next scene after talking to Esfir. The latest Windows and WebGL build has this fixed now, thank you so much for letting me know!
Having the exact same issue on the web build. Pressing space at the -space- bubble does nothing.
Hi! Is this in the first area where ilya says that she still needs to look for Esfir? If so, that bubble is not interactable >< You can progress to the next scene after talking to Esfir. Just uploaded an updated build for Windows and WebGl, so this issue should be solved now. Thank you for letting me know! c:
Thank you for uploading an update so quickly! It did confuse me that I was supposed to head backwards in the first area, but aside from that I really enjoyed my time with this game. Stories that show the bond between siblings always capture my heart and I found myself more than a little emotional at the end. ;-; Everything about it was just beautiful, thank you for making this!
Calming, atmospheric, adorable, and visually stunning :3 You'd be a fool not to give this a go! Plus the sheep are adorable, so what more could you possibly want ^-^
It was good! Controls in HTML5 were confusing sometimes but that didn't stop me!
Omg😭 this looks so cute! pls make a full game some day
thank you so much! hopefully someday! c:
The art is so beautiful!
played the whole game and I changed my mind. HOW COULD YOU
This was amazing! The story is great and the atmosphere is so good. I love the lineless artstyle!
thank you so so muchhh!! <33 that means so much!