Rosewater-DEMO AVAILABLE [GxG | Fairy Tale | Fantasy]

[Ulalaria]

Update: Our demo is now available for free download! Get it on itch.io

Synopsis

Rosewater is a surreal romantic exploration of power exchange between femme lovers in a steampunk world fraught with rigid taboos around magic. When Hansel falls dangerously ill, savvy Gretel is forced to look to dangerous places for help. This interactive fiction is a delicious perversion of the classic fairy tale that seduced us all as children, where candy houses are just what they seem and generous offers almost certainly are not.

Demo created for FemHype's SweetsJam! Final version in progress!

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Team:

Jess - writing, programming
Meagan - art, programming
Rosstin - programming
Jackie - editing

[Ulalaria]

Testing some sprite expressions today!

[Lord Dragon]

Beautiful art~! and interesting concept

[Tediusman]

Really unique artstyle! Reminds me of early 1900 advertisement artwork but with a modern vibe. I'm quite interested to follow the development of this!

[Green Glasses Girl]

I love how your work looks like an elegant painting. This sounds like an interesting take on the Hansel and Gretel tale, so I'll be keeping an eye on this!

[Heiden]

Love love love the painterly style in this, and love the fairy tale Hansel and Grete vibes.

Can't wait to see how it all turns out!

[Ulalaria]

Thank you for the wonderful feedback, everyone!

I put in the Witch's expressions today and also gave her a hovering spellbook.

Spellbook animation with ATL demo on Youtube

[Ulalaria]

Due to some unforeseeable life craziness, we're only able to have a demo completed for the jam. You can download it now for free on itch.io! The full version will be coming soon!

[Ulalaria]

Quick update: If you downloaded the game within the first two hours is was available last night, you probably encountered a test screen. That's been fixed now in the build currently uploaded to itch.

[Ulalaria]

Hey all! It's been awhile, but we're still working away at the full version of the game!
Here's the beginnings of Gretel's brother Hansel:

[Ulalaria]

After a hectic summer that team is getting back to work on Rosewater! Check out the finished Hansel base sprite

[Ulalaria]

Long time, no see! We are tentatively hoping to finish the final version of Rosewater in time for the end of YuriJam, so we've made a lot of progress in the past month:

• new art assets implemented, including Hansel and a new background
• several new scenes written
• hidden stats system implemented that determines which ending the player gets based on their choices

You can check out test footage of some of the new art assets on Youtube:

Hansel expressions
Randomized magic effects
Partial CGs

[Crazy Cactus]

As others have pointed out, the art style is very, very different from anything out there. There is a intriguing feel to the paintings and their overall feel, and it hearkens back to older times, and the aesthetic reminds me of some oil paintings I've seen in the past, perhaps with a little touch of pastels mixed in. The overall quality of the BGs and the sprites is high, leading me to imagine it must take a great deal of time, more so than average, for these to be created and it makes it all the more impressive.

Checked out your most recent snippet videos as well, and I like what you're going for with the expressions. Varied enough so the sprites have quite a lot of, for a lack of a better word, character, to them. I also liked the preview of some of the 'magical effects' and like what you've been able to achieve with those additions. My (very minor suggestion) with the magical parts might be to say that would other colors besides pink be a possibility? Nothing against that color at all - this suggestion is merely brought up in the event there are other magic users in "Rosewater."

[Ulalaria]

Thanks for your kind words, Crazy Cactus!

The overall quality of the BGs and the sprites is high, leading me to imagine it must take a great deal of time, more so than average, for these to be created and it makes it all the more impressive.

Since this was initially a jam game, I knocked out most of the art assets much quicker than I normally do! Owl-Woman Oracle is a good example of what things look like when I have more time to devote to a game's art.

Nothing against that color at all - this suggestion is merely brought up in the event there are other magic users in "Rosewater."

The effects I tested out in that video are only for one spell - if we do visual effects for any others, they will be different colors for sure