Artist & Mountain Lord

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About:

A short visual novel inspired by Japanese folklore.

A traveling artist who wanders into a small village hears about this magnificent cherry blossom tree. Upon finding it, he encounters the lord of the mountain who cherishes his mountain and the cherry blossom tree. Then the mountain lord tells the artist his plan to...

The ending changes depending on what you choose to do, or not do.
Where do your choices lead you to...?

* Playing on a desktop with a mouse is highly recommended

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All the assets in the game are either created by me or Creative Commons 0 licence.

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Development Note:

As it's the nature of any game jam, I had so many cool ideas yet had to descope along the way since this is a solo project. Due to daytime work, the time I was able to work on this was also limited. There may be a few (aka, a lot of) bugs that I didn't even notice. And oh boy, writing in English... As a Japanese guy, even though I did a multiple round of spellchecks and proofreading, I know it's a mess. I apologize for my bad English in advance. (Please kindly let me know if you notice something way out of the line...)

HOWEVER. I am happy with how it turned out. I think this is the biggest-scoped game I've made so far. This story was inspired by one of my favourite Japanese folklore "Dragon and Biwa Priest". Writing the story with my own spins and spices was a lot of fun. Drawing the world and the characters felt like I'm the artist in this story and it got me excited.

In short, I like what I made including its flaws and incompleteness. And I sincerely hope that you do, too, if you ever get to play it.

Q

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Some Concept Art:

Timelapse:

Very early character concept:

Scenes: