The Cafe Menu:

Work your way through discovering the Voynich Cafe's mysterious menu to discover the fabled "philosopher's stone"!

One catch, unfortunately you don't read 'Voynichese' or speak the language of the local villagers. You'll have to discover the recipes for the locals' favorite alchemical delights, platonic solids on your own, scribbling in the margins of old recipe books that you can't read and cross referencing to decipher the strange symbols' mean. (also the former owner failed to mention, that if you make a mistake, your cauldron will summon a mischievous eldritch aberration.)

Listen to the magic cauldron and remember to harvest from the garden frequently.

Made for #AcerolaJam 2024

Jam Theme: #Aberration

Thank you for playing, if you love this, please leave comment with feedback about what you loved, and if you'd like to see more of a game like this!

Credits:

Tools: Godot Game Engine, Krita, and Sound Board
Sound Assets:
- freesound.org users - jacobo.be_ , unfa, VKProduktion, ciaranm758, SoundGuy1billione, IENBA, HoseNoseSounds, SpaceJoe, envirOmaniac2, dobroide, Fantozzi, florianreichelt, swordofkings128
Font:
- Voynich by William Porquet
- Homemade Apple by Font Diner
Art Assets:
- sourced from a variety of 13-15th century manuscripts margin drawings including - the Luttrell Psalter, the Voynich Manuscript, 74-1-aug-2f, British Library, MS Add 42130, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, and Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, Oversize LJS 419 Erbario
Special thanks to public domain review for inspiring me in making this.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5, Windows
Author	Franz Kafka's Office Printer
Genre	Puzzle
Made with	Godot
Tags	Casual, Cooking, Cozy, Cute, Fantasy, illumination, Medieval, potion-crafting, voynich-cafe

Download

Voynich Cafe v0.05 Windows.zip 58 MB

Development log

Voynich Cafe - Postmortem
Jul 30, 2024
Godot Tutorial: Creating a physics based point & click mechanic
Jul 27, 2024
Voynich Cafe V0.5 Release
Jul 26, 2024
A Progress Update
May 07, 2024

Comments

RKillen234 days ago

I had to give this a try for the art. I LOVE the illuminated manu style!

I feel like all I need in order to progress is an understanding of what the "guess" field is looking for (name, number, color, ???). Or some combo? Any hints along those lines would have allowed me to cook with more purpose.

I did make it all the way to the "you lost" screen. >D

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Also, I had to see what you submitted, as my own submission was inspired by the narrative aberration of Kafka's Metamorphosis. :-)

Franz Kafka's Office Printer234 days ago

thanks man, I'll reply to you when I've updated the game to make it viable post-jam. you can give it another shot then :)

RKillen234 days ago(+1)

Yeah. I ended up making a separate 2.0 itch page for my updates so that I could enter the NaNoRenO jam with the new version. Not optimal, but you do what you have to. I'll follow you to get updates. Cheers!