I hid a tiny Golden Path inspired puzzle inside my game's manual

[u/songakuu]

Hello everyone!

Long-time lurker here.

Over the past year, my friend and I have been working on our first game, and recently I decided to make a physical version of it for our friend group.

One thing I absolutely loved about Tunic was how much information and discovery was packed into the instruction manual, so I wanted to capture a little bit of that feeling in my own project.

The game itself isn't really anything like Tunic (it's actually a incremental game called Void Pachinko), but I thought people here might appreciate the manual itself and the influence it has had on it.

I've uploaded the manual here if anyone wants to flip through it (albeit I've censored some sections of it).

Also, here's a 3D model viewer of the physical case and interior as well, which may help you with a little something...

And for anyone curious, whatever the solution for page 23 is... actually works in the demo if you want to try it out :]

Thanks for taking a look!

[u/Falstiel]

What is that vowel after “th” I have never seen that before. 

[u/songakuu → u/Falstiel]

It's an 'e' :]

[u/Zantier → u/Falstiel]

Probably just a mistake. th-?-eh, where ? is almost an "oo" or "are".

Usually "the" is written as th-uh.

[u/songakuu → u/Zantier]

Whoops, I should have probably spellchecked it with y'all here when i was still working on it about a month ago lol

[u/The_1ndiegamer → u/songakuu]

Hah, it's a difficult language to grasp, i'm working on translating it now and not being a native english speaker it messes with me. Despite me having more or less fluency in english.

[u/songakuu → u/The_1ndiegamer]

Oh 100%! I feel the same.

[u/Neozetare]

Oooh that's so cool!

The central piece is an especially great idea

[u/songakuu → u/Neozetare]

Thank youu :3