Tomes and Time

Congratulations on starting your new job in our bookstore. We hope the work is not too demanding as customers can have such varied tastes but are all rather impatient to get their grubby paws on our books. But if you can fetch their books before they give up and shop online (the horror!) there's good money to be made. We'll see how you feel after a week, if you make it that far...

Tomes and Time sees you single-handedly staff a bookstore fetching books for customers, who will haggle down or straight up leave if you're too slow.

This is my entry for the Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam 2026. The theme was "Count Down". Here the countdown is the patience (or lack thereof) of the customers.

Controller or mouse and keyboard supported. On the web build with some browsers and controllers the X and Y buttons may be flipped.

Credits

See credits.md under the download links for full credits.

5 o'Clock chimes by nightcustard	CC-BY 4.0	https://freesound.org/people/nightcustard/sounds/620585/
Book place sound by Michel Baradari	CC-BY 3.0	https://opengameart.org/content/3-item-sounds
Desert Biome (menu music) by joeBaxterWebb	CC-BY 4.0	https://opengameart.org/content/desert-biome
Shifting Sands of Ma-Kali (game music) by HitCtrl	CC-BY 3.0	https://opengameart.org/content/shifting-sands-of-ma-kali
Bookshelf menu background by Keith333	CC-BY 3.0	https://opengameart.org/content/books-on-a-shelf-seamless-texture-with-normalmap...
File:Upper level of the Harry Hartog bookshop at the ANU February 2025.jpg (background for this page)	CC-BY-SA 3.0	from Wikimedia Commons
Emojis by KickJump Ltd	MIT	https://github.com/svgmoji/svgmoji
PromptFont by Yukari "Shinmera" Hafner	SIL Open Font license	https://shinmera.com/promptfont
Special Elite by Astigmatic	Apache 2.0	https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Special+Elite
Noto Sans Mono	SIL Open Font license	Copyright 2022 The Noto Project Authors (https://github.com/notofonts/latin-greek-cyrillic)