Voynich Cafe
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 recipe 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.
Comments
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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. :-)
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 :)
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!