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Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts

The game Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts released three days ago on Steam, and I’ve been having so much fun with it. It’s a simulation game where we play as a medieval artist. We can pick our character and avatar, and each has its own backstory. I chose a bright nun raised in a convent orphanage.

Her bio goes like this: “A bright nun raised in a convent orphanage. She loves cats and hates sin.” However, she forgives everything if you’re a cat (obviously!), even when they pee in Sr. Anastasia’s book of teachings. Sr. Anastasia, however, was not so forgiving, and she expelled the nun and her cat from the convent. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, she opened a scriptorium with the help of her uncle Reeny and a demon called Buruta. Things are looking up!

The game has a campaign mode and a sandbox mode. The campaign puts us inside our scriptorium completing orders for the royal family, nobility, peasants, animals, and weird and shady characters… and where is the devil when we need him? He is probably assisting us. We can buy sketches from the demon and create our own pigments. We are not alone and also enjoy the company of our cat and other pets.

My scriptorium so far. Upgrades can be bough on the lower left toolbox.

We can use many elements made by the creators to build anything on a manuscript page. It ranges from full bodies or body elements (arms, legs, hand positions, etc.) to monsters or monster elements, backgrounds, borders, decorations, accidents, weapons, food, and so on. We earn more of these sketches the more orders we fulfill and the more we buy from Buruta.

Everything is separated by categories. We can either choose something pre-made, like a tree, or make plant-based monstrosities with big teeth and horns. Since this is a medieval game, there are nuns and monks, so I used my imagination to create a Teresa of Avila with one of her poems next to it. I got inspired to read more of her poems after I found a local lady who writes spiritual poetry right here where I live.

O Beauty far beyond all beauties of the world!

My creativity started and ended with the wings, because everyone knows nuns with wings (or swords) are cooler than without! All the other elements are how she is usually represented: the book and quill, the Holy Spirit (bird), and her heart, because it was pierced by an angel’s lance on fire! All of these themes go perfectly with Scriptorium. Thinking about it, I may create something along the lines of sticking floating little people with lances on fire!

This was one of the orders I got. They usually come with instructions that help capture the imagination of the client, like “fire descending from heaven”

I like the freedom the game gives me to create, but at the same time I don’t get stuck because I ran out of ideas. It’s a very cozy game, and that’s something I’m truly needing right now. Whether we are up to completing orders or using the sandbox, there’s always a lot of nice stuff to create.

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