Arrow keys / WASD to move left right and jump, or go to settings to rebind them.

We wanted to explore the concept of a protagonist who is directly affected by the folklore about it. The world changes as a result of your actions in each playthrough, but you change as a result of the folklore about it, as do the way certain NPCs may react.  A basic proof of concept.

Known bugs: 

• The player physics are pretty slippery and the jump is a 'hard commit' style jump, we experimented with using a RigidBody2D for the main character to allow easier inputs from the physics engine directly to the player back when this was originally a purely narrative game with no platforming where most physics events would happen TO the player rather than be driven by jumping. 
• If you rebind controls to create a conflict, the game does properly remove the conflict, but it doesn't update the conflicted button label to show that it was removed.
• There is only partial controller support and you can't rebind if you're on controller

Pending QOL updates that will be posted after the jam:

• ESC lets you leave the campfire early
• ESC ends your loop (but doesn't advance the cycle)
• Tap vs. hold jumps vary in height
• Player has  high friction with no inputs and zero friction with movement input (goodbye slippery fox and crunchy landings!)
• Winged/Griffox physics updates for above: Griffox has a very slow fall, winged has more jump energy but less slow fall 
• Locked Camera Y, enabled world curvature shader
• Adding settings option to toggle the curvature effect on/off 
• Tweaked the -2 forests with too much collision geometry above the camera limit
• Credits and settings buttons grab focus for better controller support
• Full controller support (jam version doesn't support rebinding and doesn't have a ui_accept for dialogs)
• Fixed the missing pixel-sized line in parallax background 
• New campfire scene animations, sound adjustments and some choices directly affect the campfire scene
• Fixed fade-in effect after hitting Start Game
• Added basic death animation/sfx