A Crisis of Fae

When Verity has her soul stolen by a fairy, she must embark on a three-part quest. 

To enter the land of fairies and reclaim her soul she must follow Three Rules:

• Be Small
• Be Sparkly
• Be Sarcastic

Full of magic, horrendous puns, and a surprising amount of dragon snot, this comedy adventure game is the opening chapter of a larger project.

Completed in two weeks for AdventureX Jam 2024

Accessibility ♿︎

We have made efforts to make this game playable by as many people as possible, and to achieve this, ensured the following:

• Easy 2-button interface (left and right mouse buttons)
• Subtitles and voice acting included for all dialogues (even for a doorbell-speaking character!)
• No pixel hunting and no overlapping hotspots;
• Not fully working blind-friendly "Accessible mode" (keyboard and text to speech). Best played with NVDA enabled and with sighted assistance for audiodescriptions. Read the Accessibility Guide to find a list of all limitations and an audiodescription guide. Bugs are also listed at "Known Bugs" (heading 2) in this page.
  

Controls (Accessibility Mode) 🎮

Important: Press K (once in the game) to enable the text-to-speech accessible mode. You can only play with your keyboard when in this mode. Also, please note that currently the game is not fully accessible to play autonomously and we recommend playing it with sighted assistance.

• K: Enable/Disable accessible keyboard + TTS mode;
• Arrows: Move between elements; 
• Enter (or left-click): select or interact; 
• Backspace (or right-click): Look at; or Cancel "Use With";
• Tab: Open/Close Inventory; 
• Spacebar: Open/Close menu toolbar (not working with TTS - use keybinds to save/load/exit);

Useful keybinds:

• F5 – Quick Save
• F7 – Quick Load
• F9 – Restart
• Alt+F4 – Exit
• Esc– Skip cutscenes

Team / Credits 👥

Creative Director: Sally Beaumont

Narrative Designer & Dialogue Writer: Sally Beaumont

Programmers: Dan Johnson (MostlyDecentGames) and Fabio Guggeri (Gugames)

Artist: Scotty Grissom (VampireWombat)

Sound Designer: Patrícia Mendes

Composer & Music: Michael Lückgen

User Experience Researcher & Designer: Patrícia Mendes

Voice Director: Sally Beaumont

Voice Actors:

• Sally Beaumont as Verity, Grandma, and The Dragon https://www.sallybeaumont.com/
• Rich Keeble as The Well  http://richdeepvoice.co.uk/
• Naomi Miller as The Fairy https://www.naomimillervo.com/

Playtesters:

• Superfreq
• RTWarner
• Jaogwal
• Jonathan Nyman

Sound Effects:

• Michael Lückgen
• Soundly
  
• freesound.org
• Ovani Sound
• Campfire Crackle 2 by rbirdwise -- https://freesound.org/s/157186/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
  
• Cloth heavy movement.wav by CUDenverSound -- https://freesound.org/s/486927/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
• Cork pop.wav by ross_sinc -- https://freesound.org/s/538937/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
• Gate_Squeak_02.wav by Koops -- https://freesound.org/s/17872/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
• Late Summer bugs with Barred Owl_Sept_2024 SW Michigan by EvolEsurb -- https://freesound.org/s/758055/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
• wind draft loop 1 by nsstudios -- https://freesound.org/s/651541/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
• Wind Rustling Trees.mp3 by FunWithSound -- https://freesound.org/s/381381/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Menu font: Kiwi Soda by jeti - Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://www.dafont.com/kiwisoda.font 

Save screen font by Wherebe

Made with PowerQuest.

Special thanks to:

• Jacqueline Casey
• The Games For Blind Gamers community
• Max Angor
• Dave Lloyd and the PowerQuest community

Known Bugs and Fixes: 

The accessible mode is not fully working. Read our Accessibility Guide for help. Known problems and tips to reduce them:

• Ensure NVDA is enabled to avoid substantial lag (you might still have a bit of lag nevertheless; proceed at your own caution);
  
• Make sure to set your NVDA voice to English manually;
• The toolbar only works sometimes. Use keybinds like F5 (quick save), F7 (quick load) and Alt+F4 (close window) instead.
• The audiodescriptions weren't implemented in time for launch. If you play with a friend, though, they can read them from our Accessibility Guide.
• You may have to Press K when entering a new scene - a bug is sometimes disabling it when we change from a room to another.
• If you get stuck in the Lair, left-click with the mouse anywhere or press Esc to parse a message on-screen that says "To-Do".