Butter Chronicles
by TsucchiDev
Butter Chronicles
Tags for Butter Chronicles
Description
ABOUT THIS GAME
Mother has entrusted you to find Butter. Set forth on an item-crafting and combining journey to challenge the Butter Beasts of the East for the ultimate trophy. Will you be able to find all the items in Butter Chronicles? (Please excuse the dad puns, LOL.)
Butter Chronicles is a single-player item-crafting mini-game where you try to find Butter! This is my second game alone from scratch I have thoroughly enjoyed the development process. Compared to the previous game, I have dedicated myself to drawing more item objects using pixel art and I've definitely learnt a lot from this small game! Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do!
AUDIO CREDIT
A special shoutout to the extremely awesome royalty-free audio sources which I've used on Butter Chronicles.
Main Menu & Game Theme: https://soundcloud.com/sei_peridot/poema
Item Found: https://freesound.org/people/Kastenfrosch/sounds/162476/
Menu Buttons: https://freesound.org/people/Christopherderp/sounds/342200/
FEEDBACK WELCOME
As this is an initial build of Butter Chronicles, I'm going to need all the feedback I can get! Please let me know if you find any bugs for me to squash / things that annoy you when playing the game!
CONTACT / FOLLOW ME
Follow me on Instagram (tsucchi.dev) to join me on my game development journey with regular dev-log posts and making art for games! A DM on instagram would be the easiest way to reach me. You may also contact me at tsucchi.dev@gmail.com.
How to Play
Simple mouse / trackpad controls anyone can master!
Click on an item to Butter-it-up!
Click on a Filled Item Slot to remove the item.
Developer Updates
GAME UPDATES
We are 3 days into the release of Butter Chronicles and thereโs been feedback on several bugs! In this update, Iโve squashed a large majority of them (please let me know if there are any more) and added in some new features as well! Hope youโll enjoy!
New Features
- Added a mute button.
- Added a description panel to display item descriptions on Hover.
- Added a hint to all undiscovered items for some slight assistance.
- Items can now be clicked instead of dragged and dropped for greater convenience.
- A small phrase โThis is a final item.โ is added to final items to prevent the player from using it in a combination and wasting time.
Bugs Squashed
- Buttons can be dragged to the item slots causing game to be unplayable.
- Slots are not resetting when Butter Me Up! is pressed.
- Fixed a bug where discoveries were found when items were found again.
- Fixed a bug where the player can find the same found item again.
- Fixed a bug where progress was not saved when navigating to different game scenes.
Comments
Noods69
May. 23, 2020
A few comments:
1) It really needs a mute button.
2) On clicking home, then Continue, all progress is lost. Given that this is a drudge of a game - to lose the progress is rather disheartening.
3) Have a hint button to at least speed things up a little. Trying each item one by one to find an illogical result is frustrating and boring.
4) This game genre has been done before, and I don't see that this one brings anything new.
To finish on something positive:
5) The jokes were as corny as promised, but a nice touch.
Thanks for playing my small game! The comments you've made all make perfect sense and I agree with them! I'll consider fixing them in future development of the game. As I'm still pretty new to game development, I hope to improve progressively with the games I make. Cheers! Edit: Just updated the game taking your feedback into consideration! If you would like, please try again!
NormaTheNorman
May. 31, 2020
I think those "god" games kind of played this out. Too many of the combos feel like pure guesswork rather than cleverly hiding (once you discover them) obvious clues. It's just a random clicking fest; a children's game of hide and seek. Good luck with the game, but it's all just a too tedious for me to bother.
Thanks for trying out the game! Cheers!
dubloe7
May. 29, 2020
I would also increase the size of the clickable area for objects.
Definitely. Cheers!
dubloe7
May. 29, 2020
When combining, you should be able to click anywhere on the screen to continue, not just the button. Letting the enter key work for both that and the combine button would also be good, or just right click for combine/OK/continue would be great if that's a thing you can implement.
Thanks for playing my game! I like the idea of click anywhere to continue, might actually do that. Cheers!
Noods69
Jun. 11, 2020
Finally got to the end! The last challenge didn't seem to have any logic behind it, or maybe I just didn't notice one? The sliding butter background got really irritating in the end - maybe add an option to stop it?
Thanks for re-playing the game! I'll put in the option to stop the background & mute music / sfx & perhaps slightly more hints in the next build! Cheers!