Such a cool idea for a child’s game! I feel like Those are really lacking in this time periode, where most of “child’s game” on mobile are some kind of blatant advertising tool or cash grab, when it’s not just lazy ai stuff thrown together 😫
I will start with my couple of regrets so I can end my review with the positive!
1: I think the end talk should not trigger next sentence on a timer, but through player input only, to let kids all the time they need to try to read it by themself without running out of time. It happened to me to not be able to read the entire sentence because I paused to think of what would be the french name (my native language) of the tree for the leaf that looked the most like a potoleaf xD
2: I feel that that last dialogue was a bit redoundant as it adds no informations/funfact nor story telling to leaves as it goes throuhg them all. I like how it highlights their name once again, but to me it feels like a lost opportunity to add to each of them something that would help the kid remember them by tying those leaf to the “emotional” side of their brain (“oh it’s funny this leaf is not only pretty but what has been told about it was cool/made me laugh/reminded me of a cherrished memory!”)
3: I wanted to play it on phone, but the music/sounds didnt work at all, so I add to play it on pc, others might encounter the same issue so I figure I would let you know
Now that all my little nitpicking as been done, I liked the fact that you can personalize your book by replacing leafs with one you might like better at any time. The atmosphere was well put together, really calming and cozy. I overal really enjoyed the art. The controles are super intuitive. The game is simple but it knows what it wants to do, and do it well! (Almost forgot to highlight how nostalgic the experience was, as a former child who, like million of other former childs, gathered leaves in autumn as a child 👌)
GG for that jam entry, I had a great time discovering it, I also found like 2 gnome friends so, yeah, you have in front of you some kind of super popular charismatic super star 😎👌🍁