Bookertail - Demo available!

Started by RootBound, Mon 08/09/2025 20:46:30

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RootBound

Hey everyone! I'm proud to announce a demo release for a platform game made in AGS. As some of you know, I've been working on an AGS platform game template (link soon) so that, I hope, anyone with an OK knowledge of AGS and AGS script can make platform games too.

I started making the platform game template so that I could make this game, which serves also as a full-fledged example of what can be built upon the platformer template foundation. So without further ado, I present...

BOOKERTAIL (DEMO)

AGS database entry

itch.io page

The geckos have taken over all of Professor Bookertail's little free libraries. Now the books lie strewn all around! But before Prof. Bookertail can clean them up, the geckos need somewhere else to live. Luckily, Bookertail has many old card catalogs. And geckos like nothing better than a box with lots of little holes to hide in!
It's time to clean up the books, re-home the geckos, and refill the little libraries.
A retro 2D platformer with a cozy ambience and keyboard controls




Thanks very much to @brushfe and @Rik_Vargard for helping me test the platformer template, to @Nahuel and @Rik_Vargard for testing the game demo, and again to @Nahuel for porting it to Mac. Much appreciation to all three of you.
They/them. Here are some of my games:

Nahuel

Good stuff! Congratulations on your release — really good artwork and quite challenging. It was a pleasure testing it, and I'm looking forward to playing V1. Good luck!
Life isn't a game. Let's develop a life-like-game.

brushfe

This is a wonderful demonstration of your platform template! The world you've added to it is so charming too. You immediately forget that you're playing an AGS game!

Rik_Vargard

This little demo will test your patience, your dexterity, and your determination.
And once you get the hang of it, which will come fairly easily, you will not stop until you managed to have the highest score possible at the end.
Because it also tickles your pride as a gamer. Well it did tickle mine (laugh)

It's challenging, it's smart, it's puzzly and you will curse (Which I did a lot)  (laugh)
The whole thing is really well put together.

And it's soOo fun to play!
The graphics are absolutely beautiful and the whole ambient is unique.

This is a great demo of what you can do with the Platformer Template  (nod)

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