Familiar 0.1.0

The first release of Familiar: one Halloween night in Hollowell, a small New England hill town. You are Wren, twelve, out until midnight.

• Trick-or-treat: pick a costume on Nana's walk, knock where the porch light is on, and tell a joke when a neighbour asks for a trick. Porch lights go off at 9 pm.
• Turn into a cat (Q) to climb fences and roofs, squeeze through gaps, open latches from the inside and see the spirits of the night.
• Keep Samhain with Nana: light the four family lanterns, gather apples, cinnamon and rosemary for her cider, carry it up Lantern Hill, and bring her old cat Smoke home by midnight.
• Saves every two minutes, on F5 and when you quit; F9 loads the last save. A damaged save is set aside, never deleted, and the one before it loads.
• Sound is made as you play (M turns it off), and the game works with touch in the browser.

Play it in the browser at https://familiar.play.danielstephenson.dev, or download it below for Windows x64 or Linux x64 (an OpenGL 4.5 driver is needed). Each download has a .sha256 file to check it against.

This is a pre-release. An AI playtest before it found no blockers, and the rough edges it did find (finding your way around town, the reach for lanterns and doors, small text at phone sizes) are tracked as issues #12-#19.

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson