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Developer: Ben Phelps

Website: https://linktr.ee/owlthiefstrawberries

Press / Business Contact: ben@phelps.com

Description

The Owl, the Thief and the Strawberries is an exploration platformer. You play as a thief who must infiltrate an ancient library and retrieve secrets. In return, your benefactors have promised you a small fortune! If only there was some way to leave with the money...

You have been hired to steal information out of an ancient library. Sounds easy, except that:

You didn't prepare. You didn't study the language of the library, and the book contents are completely unreadable for you
You REALLY didn't prepare. The only equipment you thought to bring was your packed lunch (4 strawberries)
there's a vicious giant owl guarding the library

How to Play:

You will be given a book title and a page excerpt
Look for the matching book (the details are shown in the bottom-left), then select the matching page
Head back home and call your benefactors to receive money
Progress deeper into the library

Features

Main campaign with main story progression
Randomly generated libraries for extra exploration
Can throw strawberries
Stealth mechanics for hiding from the owl

History

The Owl, the Thief and the Strawberries was originally created over 11 days for the GDN Book Jam, which ran from 17th May 2019 to 28th May 2019.

The game has had intermittent development work done since then, with patch releases coming out on 8th May 2019 and 13th February 2020. The full list of dev logs can be found on itch.io here: https://splerp.itch.io/owl-thief-strawberries/devlog

The Owl, the Thief and the Strawberries made an appearance at PAX Aus in October 2023.

A playable demo should be available in the next 2 or 3 weeks (by end of November 2023). Full release will be another year away (End of 2024 at the earliest).