The Councillors' Blessings

by Samuel Paré-Chouinard and Melissa Lim

The Councillors' Blessings is a point and click story game.
We were inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh, by the speech of Uruk's city councillors to Gilgamesh starting by "May Shamash give you your heart’s desire[...]". They offer Gilgamesh their blessings before he travels for his campaign against Humbaba. While praying for Shamash's guidance, they lay out the plan for him reaching the forest of Humbaba and giving him all sorts of instructions.

There's music and sound! Use headphones or speakers.

Made on Unity.
Sam: mechanics implementation, scene arrangement, sound design, and concept art for characters and mountains.
Melissa: cursor implementation, final assets (characters, mountains, map, tool cursors, feet, speech bubbles).

References:

Caligo Font - https://www.dafont.com/caligo.font

Sound file sources:

Background tune is Sam's edit of Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin's transcription of 'the oldest song in the world', found at: http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/hurrian.htm

Pencil sound: https://bigsoundbank.com/detail-0221-pencil.html
Rocks and washing sounds from Sam's library.