BOOKWORM
A downloadable game
Keep your bookworm alive by writing!
A bookmark designed for the 24-word RPG Jam.
Bookworm is a micro pet simulator in the form of a bookmark. By writing 200 words a week, you feed your bookworm's inspiration! If you miss a week, their health goes down by one. After five missed weeks, their life cycle ends. Remember them by drawing a pet portrait and writing down their likes and dislikes!
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Two versions are available: a bookmark and a game card.
The game card has had an original print run of 500.
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Designer: Elisabeth Rose Astwood
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We encourage players to consult the TTRPG Safety Toolkit here.
The TTRPG Safety Toolkit is a resource co-curated by Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk. The TTRPG Safety Toolkit is a compilation of safety tools that have been designed by members of the tabletop roleplaying games community for use by players and GMs at the table. You can find it at ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com.
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TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to begin by acknowledging that Bookworm is being developed on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we work.
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
“This Territorial Acknowledgement and resources were created by Concordia University’s Indigenous Directions Leadership Group (2017). To read the entire Territorial Acknowledgement and learn more about why it was written this way, please visit www.concordia.ca/indigenous/resources/territorial-acknowledgement.html.”
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Development log
- NEW VERSION - A Game Card for GDCApr 27, 2024
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Awesome little game for helping us “need a reason“ oriented people keep working towards our goal. Found things like this have helped me in the past so I’m looking forward to meeting my little worm!
I don't get it. At what health do you start, and what conditions lower or raise it?
Hi, thanks for your question! The game is designed to be as minimalist as possible and so I think any player interpretation is reasonable.
That being said, my intention was to express a max health of 5 (full at start). Every week the player must write 200 words or lose one health. Could be that writing also returns health in full or by one. But I prefer a version where there is no way to raise your health. This way the run always ends after 5 missed weeks.