At the Foot of the Big Old Tree That Dreams
January 20, 2017 4:56 AM   Subscribe

Browser game developers Marek and Marcin Rudowski, creators of the beautifully illustrated Trader of Stories fantasy adventure games Bell's Heart and A Grain of Truth, have decided to treat those games as side stories for a proper series, starting where it all began (at least, all the protagonist can remember) in Chapter One.
posted by BiggerJ (3 comments total) 25 users marked this as a favorite
 
This game is beautiful. The art, the music, the central ideas of what's going on...I would happily read a visual novel about this place and these characters. And yet it constantly reminds me of all the things I don't like about point-and-click adventure games. Inventory puzzles require you to go back and forth between locations a zillion times (though there's a handy Show Me What's Clickable button and the characters give enough advice that it's not horribly frustrating), the mechanic where you answer trivia questions about the story to use the slingshot just seems weird (though I appreciate the one moment where it parodies itself), and I am currently dead stuck on a sliding blocks puzzle. If anyone can help me solve the sliding blocks puzzle in Hazel's workshop, your advice will be much appreciated. I know what the solution is, but not how to get to it.
posted by WizardOfDocs at 11:20 AM on January 20, 2017


I ended up bypassing the puzzle using a clue found in one of the grain bags. After you read the note, a new option to bypass should appear when you click on the puzzle. I'm not even sure if there is an actual puzzle solution or not.
posted by ourobouros at 7:10 PM on January 20, 2017


If the puzzle in Hazel's workshop is anything like the Mahjong puzzle in A Grain Of Truth there will be a solution but it will be substantially trickier than expected.

These games are wonderful - thank you for posting them. Looking forward to Chapter Two.
posted by motty at 5:39 PM on January 25, 2017


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