Charmaceuticals
Created for Mini Jam 66 - Sweets
Start your career as a charmist for Charmaceuticals, the worlds-wide leader in the realm of magical edible medical care. Get to know the residents of a rural town and prescribe them appropriately hexed and enchanted sweets for their own good, as well as yours - can't stay employed if the customers are unhappy!
This is a short slice of what was a hilariously overscoped "baby's first game jam" game. I was inspired by the jam theme of sweets, the two-button limitation, and a recent playthrough of Atelier Ryza to do the concept of a one-screen simulation-style game focused on cute, tasty, magical items and pleasant slice-of-life interactions. For the spooky season and my own artistic limits, I used nondescript humanoid figures in simple and colorful paper masks alongside the pastel item art, and for my own satisfaction, there are a wealth of groan-worthy puns. Enjoy the small bits of worldbuilding, slapdash but cute aesthetics, and glimpses of what's to come in later iterations of this project!
Controls:
Mouse - move cursor around the screen
Left click - interact
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I'm running the Mac version and having a bit of trouble viewing the entire screen, is there any way to resize the window so that the left and right edges are not cut off?
Sorry for the issues! I don't have a Mac to test on so I'm flying a little blind with it. I've just uploaded a web version that should be able to be played in the browser; let me know if it still isn't working for you and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks! Managed to get through the first patient.
It does work in the browser! Just is a bit big and doesn't resize with the window so had to zoom out in the browser.
No problem, hope you enjoyed! And yeah, definitely need to play around a bit with itch settings to perfect it, haha