Dec 7, 2024
A town targeted by a warlord is defended by an unexpected army of...well, I’m sure you can guess.
Genre: Fairy Tale
Excerpt:
The hilltop town of Adarak had a tradition of baking gingerbread
men and setting them along the windowsills on the longest night of
winter, facing outward, to keep the town safe from enemies— whether
mortal or mystical.
Many believed that this tradition arose in homage of the ginger-colored cloaks that the town guards wore, all the better to hide their movements through the forests and mountain surrounding the town. But every grandmother in town made sure to tell her grandchildren the true story of the tradition…
What story or stories am I
revisiting in this episode?
Each Season 8 episode is a standalone story, but it’s connected to
or inspired by a previous story through a character, a place, an
object, a concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so
on.
This story is connected to the Year Five story entitled “I Dreamed A Cookie,” in which a baking contest finalist takes inspiration from a locked-in-a-bakery-overnight dream.
ANGRY GINGERBREAD
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CREDITS
Story: “The
Gingerbread Guard” Copyright © 2020 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Battle_1_normal (loop)” by ALBERT FERNANDEZ (Intro and Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)
Music by ANDREW
SITKOV (MuzStation Game Music)*
“Secrets of Kingdom”
“Steel Enemy”
“Driving Force”
“Ice and Fire (heavy part)”
“Ice and Fire”
“Magic Within”
“Knight Rising”
“Percussion Loop #16 (Version 3)”
“Percussion Loop #17 (Version 2)”
“Lyric Voices #2”
Music by ALBERT
FERNANDEZ (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)*
“Battle_1_normal (loop)”
“Exploration_Forest Of Magic”
“Exploration_Mystical Place (loop 1)”
“Exploration_Mystical Place (loop 2)”
“Locations_Medieval Tavern Song”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Albert
Fernandez and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket
Vocal effects created with Audacity
Changes made to the musical tracks? Just cropping of
some to align with my narration.
Find more music by Andrew Sitkov and Albert Fernandez
at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art Description: Digital drawing of a partial view through a window. Lined along the inside, looking out are four gingerbread men. Three are iced with decoration and look angry. The fourth is smiling. In the window’s reflection is a giant gingerbread man wreaking havoc. His arms are raised and fingers curled down with menace. He is breathing fire down onto the ground. Watermark of “Storyfeather” along windowpane at bottom right. Format made square with borders at top and bottom that contain blurred elements from the main image.