Broomstick Post

by celia14
co-authored: @rose
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.77
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.27
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.31
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Broomstick Post is a short visual novel where you play a post-office witch, making deliveries on your broomstick. While delivering mail, packages, and gifts, you'll get to know the townsfolk and help them reconnect.

Credits:
- Celia: Design, coding, writing
- Rose: Design, coding, art
- The background art was generated by Watabou's Procgen Arcana.
- The music is PaperWings by Audionautix.com.
- The narrative scripting language is Ink.

Known issues:
- There's no end state. When you've delivered everything, give yourself a pat on the back!

Comments23

Branquelo
Branquelo2 May 2023, 02:04
I loved the art style! And it's nice to interact to each person and known them a little better. It's short, but it's really pleasing to play!
Eric Nguyen3 May 2023, 05:34
I was super drawn into this world and the characters, I think it's because of the great writing! Great work on this submission!

Was there supposed to be an ending sequence? I was really looking forward to the party! :sweat_smile:
AsmadiGames3 May 2023, 05:35
So cute and well written. It's fun to cheer everyone up, and now I want a cupcake :3

Great arts also, it looks very polished for a jam entry.
Attala
Attala3 May 2023, 05:38
I like this. Quite relaxing after playing a lot of action games :) The art style is very good and so is the music. For a fun, short experience this is quite good.
catbutt
catbutt3 May 2023, 05:41
They dont like it when i give them the wrong letters.
ImInSoftware
ImInSoftware3 May 2023, 05:42
The artwork and story are really well polished and charming - and it was fun to figure out where everything goes! Great game!
Braveskin
Braveskin3 May 2023, 05:42
Charming art style and beautiful music. Very chill entry! I wish there were a little something distinctive for the ending, but it was still pleasant to know the townspeople will be getting along thanks to your help.
Procok3 May 2023, 05:45
The art style is super cute, everything looked nice. I noticed the map, I love that site as well :D
The dialogues were smooth, and everything transitioned nicely. The music was also a great choice even if you didn't make it.
I don't usually play visual novel games, but this was nice.
Good job! Pretty good entry overall.
SunnyKid3 May 2023, 05:52
This was a comfy and relaxing game. The art and the music made it a charming experience. Was there going to be a party sequence at the end? I wasn't sure but overall good work!
1tater_no_tots3 May 2023, 05:57
Very comfy game that immerses you in the slow/relaxing life of a delivery witch! Nice interweaving story lines and interesting snapshots of the personality and life of each character.
Jacob VanDomelen3 May 2023, 06:06
I loved the world and characters for this, such a cute game! Now I really wish I could see them all at the party
Paul Avallone3 May 2023, 06:14
Absolutely adorable game. It felt so cozy. The art and music really made it. The characters were so sweet. Great job!
bts3 May 2023, 19:50
This was cute and fun! (But I wanna know the ending, hopefully you'll get to it post-jam... :wink:)
Norah
Norah3 May 2023, 20:23
Very cute game, simple but cleverly conceived, it also nicely polished, well done ! :smile:
Phoenix Fireflower3 May 2023, 21:09
The characters are all adorable and the story threads are interwoven very nicely. Any chance we get to see how the party turns out in a post-jam version?
LDJam user 321333
LDJam user 3213334 May 2023, 01:29
Very nice and relaxing game. I like the choice of setting in an adventurer's pass through town and giving life to people that are just NPCs to outsiders. It helped give this game a familiar, homey feeling.
RIBOUT Horace
RIBOUT Horace6 May 2023, 15:23
Love the concept and the narration! The character are a bit "bland" but it's hard to make them shine a lot in such little time : what you've done is alreay enorm for so little time. The visual are cool too! Congrats!
Kerdelos
Kerdelos8 May 2023, 20:49
Such a wholesome entry ! I especially liked going back and forth, giving multiple packages and learning more about each inhabitants.
Wonderful job !
WeeFairyFabi
WeeFairyFabi9 May 2023, 15:24
This is super cute and wholesome! I love the character design and all the narrative titbits you find out with each delivery you can really see the love and care put in this game!
LDJam user 243193
LDJam user 24319311 May 2023, 05:12
Aaah, a simple delivery game with great story flavour. Has some delivery twists but it's not hard to solve.
CataclysmicKnight
CataclysmicKnight13 May 2023, 02:55
LIZZIE made a potion that turns people into RAINBOW​ slimes and that didn't CONFORM. OMG that's the first thing I did and I love this so much. Lizzie is one of my nicknames and I'm trans and love rainbows so that's freaking glorious 🧡

This was a much bigger game than I expected. I really figured I'd be giving those five things out, and that the challenge was to remember who to give them to since the name doesn't show at that point, but nope! Way more to it than that! I loved how much interaction there was between the people; it feels like many of the delivery games I've played during this LD have nailed it on delivering things but not been great on feeling like a community of people, and this one did that really well :D Plus the art was super cute and so were the characters! And I can't remember which one it was now but they kept referring to one of the characters as "they", so unless I'm wrong... hurray for nonbinary representation!!! 🧡🧡🧡
celia14
celia14author16 May 2023, 01:37
@cataclysmicknight Thanks for the comment, it means a lot! :rainbow: I wanted to confirm that Sorrel the bard is indeed nonbinary. :slight_smile:

(By the way, it wasn't intended to be a challenge to remember who was who, we just forgot that players wouldn't be as familiar with everyone as we were when making the game, heh. Something to tweak in the post-jam version!)

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