pocket full of wonder
pocket full of wonder is my submission to this year's #FletchFest2024!
I've been iterating and thinking about what this idea of "interactive poetry" and what it could mean for a while. While this isn't the end of my journey trying to conceptualize it, this game represents my next step towards that goal!
Fletch Fest 2024 is an annual event that I host, primarily to celebrate the beauty of human creativity, but also as a way to earmark my streaming anniversary on Twitch. Click the hashtag above to take a look at the full jam rules, as well as see a gallery of all the past submissions!
I hope you enjoy this short, but sweet set of hopeful and optimistic poetry presented in (what I hope is) a unique format.
Huge big thank you to everyone who has submitted projects to Fletch Fest previously and in the future; the community and joy we build around creativity fills me with life <3
See and interact with all of the Fletch Fest 2024 submissions here: Gallery
controls
press space while on the main menu to begin; type on your physical keyboard to play. just type the words you see on screen, there are no penalties for wrong letters, and no time limits! take your time and enjoy the words <3
credits
- game & writing: fletch
- music: lemonpoppyseedgames
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This is incredibly sweet, good job you two!
thank you so much midluuna!!!!
such a lovely little concept and affecting words that made me emotional. the beautiful music helps tie it all together
thank you so much for playing and for your kind words <3
Love this idea - having to type each line really makes me engage with the writing. I am definitely guilty of skimming and barely comprehending short pieces of fiction I stumble across, but this forced me to actually digest and appreciate each line. Is there a coded relationship between the shapes and stars that form the vertices? Or did you place the stars by hand?
Ah thank you so much for playing and I’m glad the format helped you engage with the words!! The way I constructed each level was by tying a relationship between a fragment of text and a star (they have the same origin), and then pasted in an SVG of the shape I wanted for a level and arranged each fragment/star piece along the edges of the SVG. That same SVG icon is used to show the constellation at the end of the level.
If I were to make this a fully-developed game, I’d use Path2D nodes to draw shapes, then equally space nodes along that Path2D to programmatically place the fragment/star pieces. Since the game was short I didn’t go that direction.
Sounds like solid prototyping to me! It's so rare that I am using any art asset that is not a low-res pixelated sprite, it's always interesting to hear how other games handle vector art!
Such a beautiful experience Fletch! I had an amazing time playing this game!
Thank you so much MaYo!!! Really appreciate the kind words <3
Very sweet little game, music was great too!
Thank you so much for playing!! Lemon really knocked it out of the park with this one!!
this is such a wholesome and relaxing game <3 and the music is beautifully complementary. well done!
Thank you so much!! <3