Trollmother
A downloadable game
You play an old mother of trolls who adopts and raises a human child. You decide where he spends his time and can talk to him once every three months.
Will he stay with the trolls or go back to the humans? Will he travel far and wide? Will he marry? Become a troll cave NEET? A lot of alternate paths depending on stats and relationships.
If you've played the game, I'd appreciate if you'd answer an anonymous survey about your experience, in case I ever get around to updating it. The survey has spoilers, but could also act as a rough checklist for endings.
Screenshots taken with RetroArch (Gambatte core, console borders gbc-3x shader).
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Development log
- The Making of TrollmotherNov 17, 2023
- Trollmother 1.01Nov 02, 2023
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This is a truly tremendous game! Really honestly very well done. I'm going to play it a bunch more times. Do you have a twitter I can tweet at? (totally fine if you don't, especially considering twitter doesn't exist any more).
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)
I do technically have a twitter. I don't use it much, but feel free to tweet at me. Might post some behind the scenes sketches there, eventually. Or maybe I'll just add them to this entry as a PDF.
I would really appreciate if you answer the survey (if you haven't already). Especially if you've finished the game more than once and gotten multiple endings. It helps give me a sense of what is and isn't working.
I did finish the survey :D it also inspired me to add a survey to the beta test of my own game. Such a simple and helpful tool ;)
Hey so, I wasn't able to DM you on twitter so I thought I would ask you here: I curate a videogame pop-up arcade art gallery party thing in Vancouver, BC Canada called "Heart Projector" and we're doing a show on Nov 4th featuring homebrew games. I would like your permission to show Trollmother. We don't charge people money to attend our events so we can't offer to pay you, but we would love to show your game to our loving audience.
Here are some links to our stuff so you know we're legit ;)
https://heartprojector.com/
https://twitter.com/heart_projector
Feel free to reply here or DM me on twitter: https://twitter.com/ArrogantGamer
Thanks! Best of luck!
Hello yes I am also from Heart Projector, just wanted to say that this game kicks ass!
That sounds great! It's just a shame I can't be there personally. Maybe you can point people to the survey :P
And yeah, twitter seems completely broken lately. Just not sure what to replace it with yet.
Awesome! We can definitely suggest people fill out the survey :D
Can I ask you to provide a short bio about yourself? We will display that along with a curatorial statement we will create on a plaquard next to your game.
Thanks so much, this is gonna be cool!
I enjoyed this! At first I was a little confused when I hit months where nothing happened... but it made sense as soon as things starting unfolding! The story is cute and addicting. It fits well with the simple and intuitive game mechanics and leaves the player wondering how future playthroughs could be different and lead to a different story unfolding. At points I did wish that there were less months where nothing happens, but that probably depends a lot on the choices that I made. The music was very fitting! Great work on this!
I appreciate the feedback! If you have time, I just put up a survey. It'll inform my updates if I ever get back to this :)
This game is so good! I love the story and atmosphere. The gameplay is very interesting with all those seemingly random events.
I wished Knut (great name, btw. :D) would tell more different things when talking to him.
Thank you :)
And yes, I would definitely have added more conversations if I'd had more time.