A Wordless Tale

of a lightning-born heroine, told through dramatic comic book panels. Created in two weeks for GDKO 2024 Round 3, where the challenge was to tell a story without using language.

Unfortunately, real life got in the way this round and I wasn't able to finish the game as much as I had hoped. But it does have one level and a story!

Click the comic book to start!
The game will explain the rest.

Credits

• Game, coding, art, and design by me, Hugbug. The game engine is homebrew HTML5/JS/CSS.
• Comic book was outlined, drawn, clipped, frankensteined, and finished in Photoshop. I started with background photos licensed from DepositPhotos, drew some illos by hand, assembled bits and pieces from Google Image search, and mixed in AI source images generated in NightCafe. Then I style-filtered and hand-painted over it to bring the thing together.
• Heroine sprites from CraftPix, then hand-modified to match the character and art style.
  
• Sounds from freesound.org:  fire, screech, land, jump, portcullis.
• Music licensed from pond5.com and edited in Audacity.
• Eroded font courtesy of FontSpace, created by Billy Argel.

Unfinished levels

Thanks for playing :)