This is our project for the Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2025, The Clock Tower, a text adventure with audio elements.

https://grumblyharmonics.itch.io/clock-tower

• Dev Log
• Brainstorming
• Sounds
• Scripts
• Play Testing

Roadmap

Day 1 – October 31 🎃

• Basic input–parse–execute loop
• Placeholder parse function – e.g. string.split().upper()
• Simple dungeon of 3 connected rooms
• Audio playing – non reactive (background music)

Day 2 – November 1

• Brainstorming story and objectives, ending
• parse function returns a list, canonicalizing at least compass directions
• Objects and inventory
• Gondola and mountain rooms.
• Decouple text game loop from Love2d initialization
  • Keep game "model" (text I/O loop) in its own file (maybe its own love2d thread, keep the "view" in the main thread (does audio management, love.update, etc. according to messages received from the game loop).

Day 3 – November 2

• Brainstorming story and objectives
• Objects and inventory
• Parser [870e0a8afe600cef]
• Don't repeat long description of rooms
• Volume commands [c15e045577daea74]

Day 4 – November 3

• Writing scripts for audio recording
• Objects
  • 3d position of objects in rooms and inventory

Day 5 – November 4

• Writing scripts for audio recording
• Radio and controls

Day 6 – November 5

• Finish first puzzle (knocking)
• Radio and controls
• Have one room with its own unique noises
• Connect puzzle solution with end game state
• Different background sounds in different rooms
• Find sources of background sounds

Day 7 – November 6

• Finish scripts for audio recording
• 23:30 Studio day – audio recordings of everything that needs voice acted
• Trial recording of final credits song
• Make long descriptions of room functions that take game state

Day 8 – November 7

• Implement the other two radio stations

Day 9 – November 8

• Line editing [20dabaa4e039f139]
• Game has a win condition
• Send to playtesters
• Revise room descriptions

Day 10 – November 9

• Playtesting wiki:Play Testing
• Word wrapping [471565ce46c702aa]
• Revise CREDITS file and ensure it's complete.
• Put your name on your game!
• Generate binaries for different platforms https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution
• Figure out and test uploading to itch
• Submit https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025/rate/4026310
• Write a brief intro on the itch page for the benefit of people who play it. "It's a traditional text adventure with sound. There are X rooms and Y items."
  • And a "how to play": download the windows zip and run clocktower.exe, or download clocktower.love and run it with the Love interpreter.
• Scrub the .fossil repo for archiving and sharing.

Day 11 – November 10

• Send submitted version to play testers.