It's quirky but cute. I wasn't expecting it to go to the serious places it did, but it did a surprisingly good job balancing the serious with the silly and keeping the overall tone light. I literally entered "thing" for the magic thing which made some of the dialogue extra-funny.
Making the forest "impenetrably dark" is an interesting way to avoid drawing backgrounds, it's the perfect kind of shortcut for this jam.
Thank you!! As I got more invested in the writing I started to get a bit more serious with it, I'm glad it ended up feeling balanced in the end! I've been wanting to fiddle with text-input prompts like that, I was hoping it would end up with some funny bits a-la 'mad-libs' hehe.
Yeah, I wanted a natural enough feeling shortcut to avoid too much detail without anything standing out as particularly unfinished compared to the rest of the art. It can be a fun exercise to try and find reasons to justify a shortcut I think.
