Summoned Memories by Flying Butter Studio

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made by Flying Butter Studio for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

In this narrative game, follow the major stages in the life of an old painter suffering from a mysterious illness. Help him put his ideas and memories in order by discovering the pages of his diary.

Information:

The game will automaticaly check if your choice is correct. So if nothing happens, there is something wrong in your selection. :wink:

If you are stuck on a level, do not hesitate to use the answer file available in download :wink:

MainMenu.png

Chapter.png

The old painter's diary.

Book.png

The workshop

Game.png

Ratings

Overall 469th 3.667⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 814th 3.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 183th 3.857⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 779th 3.429⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 362th 4⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 71th 4.238⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 41🗨️

Feedback

JiPark
15. Apr 2024 · 19:05 UTC
I real love this Style!!!!
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
15. Apr 2024 · 19:58 UTC
Thank you @jipark :)
Hope you enjoyed the game ^^
Gulcar
16. Apr 2024 · 17:24 UTC
I don't know what to do after I have selected 4 things
Telkan
16. Apr 2024 · 17:26 UTC
It's such a lovely game, the mood is perfect
LDJam user 282870
16. Apr 2024 · 17:35 UTC
What to do after selecting the items?
popertots
16. Apr 2024 · 17:35 UTC
I'm in the same boat as @gulcar but the mood is excellent
Memnarch
16. Apr 2024 · 17:50 UTC
This game takes you on a melancholic journey through someones diary, resulting ina painting which is build up piece by piece.

I liked the art style and general premise, together with the calm soundtrack. A quite polished presentation in terms of the chosen style.

What was a bit harder was to see the bold words in the diary due to the font style. Puzzling the words/colors wasn't always an easy task as some had close related meanings(for me?). Not having any kind of hint/feedback on what I have already right made it harder to guess at times. Maybe an option would be a sketch mode (easy?) where each correct item ads parts of the current element as sketch, resulting in the final full colored one once all items are right.
RollCreators
16. Apr 2024 · 17:53 UTC
Good idea is showing story telling on picture.
I don't understand that I must choose. But I like this idea)
Alexis Brochec
16. Apr 2024 · 18:02 UTC
Concept très cool et de très beau graphisme.
La musique est très belle et va très bien avec le thème.

Par contre, je ne sais pas si c'est juste moi mais je trouve le système très dur. Peut être mettre en place un système d'aide ou d'indice afin de ne pas rester bloqué à la même scène.
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
16. Apr 2024 · 18:32 UTC
Hello @gulcar , @telkan and @popertots :smile:
Thank you for your remark and for playing my game :smiley:

To answer your question, the game will automaticaly check if your choice is correct. So if nothing happens, there is something wrong in your selection. :wink:

PS: The order of the words is not important
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
16. Apr 2024 · 18:35 UTC
Salut @alexis-brochec , compatriote francophone! :smile:

Merci pour ton retour, ça fait super plaisir.
Par rapport à ta remarque, je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi: j'ai peut-être rendu la chose un poil trop complexe. Ma compagne m'a fait le même retour. Malheureusement, le temps a joué contre moi haha :laughing:

Merci beaucoup encore une fois pour ton message, je ne tarderai pas à venir tester ton jeu! :wink:
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
16. Apr 2024 · 18:36 UTC
Thank you @rollcreators for your nice comment :smile:

Can I help you in any case ?
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
16. Apr 2024 · 18:42 UTC
Thank you @memnarch for your nice and constructive feedback :smile:

With @alexis-brochec, your are not the only one to make this kind of remark about difficulty and progression visibility. My apologize for this. My girlfriend made me the same feedback but unfortunately, I was running out of time :laughing:

Next time, i will try to do better!

Thank you again! :smile:
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
16. Apr 2024 · 19:09 UTC
@memnarch and @alexis-brochec

Answer files are available now on download in your respective languages. Do not hesitate to use them if your are stuck :wink:
Franminaverry
17. Apr 2024 · 08:05 UTC
Relaxing and enjoyable :)
MadRain
17. Apr 2024 · 21:45 UTC
Un superbe jeu très bien fini. L'ambiance est excellente et les graphismes sont tops. Vraiment bravo !
Seul petit bémol : c'est parfois un peu compliqué de trouver la bonne combinaison de mots et de couleurs. J'avoue que j'ai du m'aider des réponses pour certaines ^^
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
18. Apr 2024 · 06:52 UTC
Salut @madrain :smile:
Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire et ton retour, ça fait super plaisir! :heart:

Effectivement, tu n'es pas le seul à relever la difficulté des associations d'idées, toutes mes excuses pour le désagrément ^^'
Du coup, j'avais fait les fichiers d'aide après coup et je suis heureux de savoir qu'ils ont pu t'aider et te permettre d'aller au bout du récit :smile:

Encore merci, je ne tarderai pas à passer tester ton jeu! :heart:
stellarnightmare
18. Apr 2024 · 11:01 UTC
Well made and calming.

I did find that I didn't really know what to do at first though, perhaps that was just me.
But I did find how to arrange stuff eventually.
Ldrow
18. Apr 2024 · 11:19 UTC
The summoning of memories is very creative. The art and music are calming and relaxing。
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
18. Apr 2024 · 12:20 UTC
Thank you @stellarnightmare for playing my game :smile: I'm happy to know you found how to play it and I hope you enjoyed :smiley:

Thanks @ldrow, happy to know you take a good time playing my game :smile:
Bx007
19. Apr 2024 · 05:43 UTC
I like this game! It reminds me of Rusty Lake. Good job!
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
19. Apr 2024 · 07:24 UTC
Hooooo, nice ref @bx007 thank you! :heart:
I love Rusty Lake, that's a nice compliment :smile:

I'm happy to know you enjoyed my little story :smile:
GoBigRedFan
19. Apr 2024 · 20:50 UTC
Great concept. Also that Flying Butter logo screen is FIRE. Unfortunately I don't think the puzzle logic fully survived the translation; there isn't always a clear solution path from the text to the answers in the English version.
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
19. Apr 2024 · 22:18 UTC
Thank you for your comment @gobigredfan :smile:
Yeah, a butter with a jet pack is clearly the best crossover we could make! :laughing:

For your remark, yes you are right: I'm not good enough in English on the one hand, and on the other hand I ran out of time. So I had to trust google translate... Sorry for that :worried:

Anyway, i hope you enjoyed my game :smile: Thank you again :wink:
LDJam user 375382
20. Apr 2024 · 10:12 UTC
I really like how you combined text and painting, very innovative. But, like others, I found the English version was really hard to solve at times :D. Still, great experience!
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
20. Apr 2024 · 14:36 UTC
Thank you @diadem-games for your feedback and playing my ga:e :smile:
Sorry about the bad translation but i'm happy to know you had a great time anyway :wink:
Caveman54
20. Apr 2024 · 23:30 UTC
I definitely needed the solutions, maybe if there were fewer choices that would be helpful. Honestly that's a small nitpick this is a fantastic game. The writing is amazing. We had a similar interpretation of the theme and it is very well executed here. Very impressive as a jam game.
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
21. Apr 2024 · 07:37 UTC
Thank you for your feedback @caveman54 :smile:
I'm sorry about the quality of translation but i'm happy to know you enjoyed the game and the story :heart:

We had similar interpretion of the theme?! Interresting! I'm curious to see how you executed it :smiley: I will try it !

Thank you again for your comment! :wink:
Rowdy3
25. Apr 2024 · 00:05 UTC
A beautiful game! I also struggled a bit with the solving of the English hints and had to peek at the solution a couple of times, but I still enjoyed it quite a lot. Great job!
HaaYaargh
27. Apr 2024 · 21:28 UTC
Very touching story, I love short narrative games like this. It is refreshing to see an entry that is not about demons, but a gentle, but sad story about summoning lost memories :heart: Losing memories must be horrible feeling.

Choosing memories and colors to paint is very innovative, I haven't seen anything like this before. That being said I think the bolded hints, thoughts/memories words and journal definitely need another pass and more work. There were only couple layers where you could reasonable solve the riddle, but many hints or memories were counterintuitive or even misleading. I saw in comments that you didn't have enough time for text polish, and that's understandable, after all you did participate in 48h Compo, not 72h Jam.

I compiled a list of suggestions and feedback for each layer, but I don't want to paste it here to save spoilers for others. If you would like me to send it to you, and perhaps if you needed help with English translations and polish I could gladly help. I followed your Twitter, so reach out if you need anything.
josang1567
02. May 2024 · 08:50 UTC
Good game, love the artwork
🎤 Flying Butter Studio
05. May 2024 · 07:32 UTC
Thank you so much for your feedback @haayaargh !
Sorry for thé delay, I'm on holiday for now :smile:
I usualy have my girlfriend to help me for translation but that was impossible this time, she has something to do. But I would be very happy to know your suggestion, do not hesitate to contact me via Twitter :wink:
Thank you again for this lovely comment !