History VideoGame / TheTraderOfStories

* TheAlcoholic: The inn patron in ''Bell's Heart''. Claims it's due to being spooked by the ghost.

* ChickMagnet: Derrida in ''Bell's Heart''.
* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: You have to get some cat hair for one of the potions in ''Bell's Heart''...

* EasterEgg: Ask the Captain in ''A Grain of Truth'' if her crew has a long-standing tradition [[spoiler: of brewing]].

* IndecisiveMedium: Intros, outros and all the cutscenes are made of static comicbook panels.

** The fact that the Big Oak "dreams" is also mentioned.
* TravelingSalesman: Myosotis.

* BadassMustache: The elder trees' bark grow in a way that resembles bushy mustaches.

* ButThouMust: The goddess Willow really doesn't want to cause a tree additional pain by reopening a wound to get fresh sap, but it's the only way.

* DrowningMySorrows: Omorica after it turns out Pinutros was interested in her sister.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Wolfeers have glowing red eyes visible from offscreen.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Clickable areas can be highlighted via a button, preventing a PixelHunt.

''The Trader of Stories'' (also known as ''The Big Old Tree That Dreams'') is a series of indie {{Adventure Game}}s set in the [[SceneryPorn very beautiful]] [[ConstructedWorld world of Forest Bed]]. The games, produced by the Polish Marek and Marcin Rudowski brothers [[http://www.hardydev.com/2009/10/25/interview-with-marek-rudowski-the-trader-of-stories/]] are of the [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] sort and web-based - just [[FreewareGames click the link to play]].

* HiddenElfVillage: The forest of Dancing Trees, for all its TheLostWoods decorations, is one of these. Secluded? Check. Populated by very traditional, yet friendly to the lost, helpless protagonist CloseKnitCommunity of sentients not often met in TheOutsideWorld? Yup.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Husks are oxen of a different color. The cloud eater is... an elephant-giraffe... never mind.

* ProphetEyes: Weeping Willow. Blindness is the first thing Myo notices about her.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Myo gathers them. It's the crux of her narrative.

The first two installments star a young woman named Myosotis, a traveller who makes it her business to buy stories from people - because, suffering from a severe case of LaserGuidedAmnesia, she hopes to find the story that is her own. The later ones, per WordOfGod, are going to have more diverse cast.

* ''Trader of Stories, Chapter I'': the first of a number of planned prequel games that deal with Myo's backstory, this one tells of the time she spend in the [[HiddenElfVillage Forest of Dancing Trees]] immediately after contracting the LaserGuidedAmnesia. Play it [[http://www.rudowscy.com/tos1/ here]].

** also, the old man in that same game.

* TheFairFolk: Very mild - the Icy Butterflies are perfectly friendly, but wary of humans and inscrutable.

* IndecisiveMedium: Intros, outros and all the cutscenes are made of static, comicbook panels.

* A third game is in development, but no release date has been announced yet.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: ''Bell's Heart'' ending.

* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: ''A Grain of Truth'' at least makes these [[DeadpanSnarker funny]].

** "Breaths" are their days, "Blossoms" are their years. JustifiedTrope - the light in this world comes from the Great Tree - it's blossoming marks years.

''The Trader of Stories'' (also known as ''The Big Old Tree That Dreams'') is a series of indie {{Adventure Game}}s set in the [[SceneryPorn very beautiful]] [[ConstructedWorld world of Forest Bed]]. The games, produced by the Polish Marek and Martin Rudowski brothers [[http://www.hardydev.com/2009/10/25/interview-with-marek-rudowski-the-trader-of-stories/]] are of the [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] sort and web-based - just [[FreewareGames click the link to play]].

* AllThereInTheManual: In ''Bell's Heart'' Myosotis ''carries'' the manual (helpfully written for her by her sister). You don't neen do access it to win the game, it's pure {{Worldbuilding}}.

* AwfulTruth: ''A Grain of Truth'' hints there might be something really, really bad in Myo's past, and the Wiseman knows all about it. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop But won't tell]]. [[spoiler: She might be a LivingMacGuffin, ChosenOne and/or DarkMessiah - we'll see.]]
* BedTrick: [[spoiler: In ''Bell's Heart'' a girl in the village did this to Derrida, causing him to]] [[DrivenToSuicide become the ghost in the lake]]. [[spoiler: And the real father of the present-day mayor]].

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Husks are oxen of a different colour. The cloud eater is... an elephant-giraffe... never mind.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Myo knows her own name, reckognises her sister, but several years ago has forgotten her entire life story.

* SteamPunk: Mild example - the wiseman owns scientific equipment [[spoiler:including a movie projector.]]

''The Trader of Stories'' (also known as ''The Big Old Tree That Dreams'') is a series of indie {{Adventure Game}}s set in the [[SceneryPorn very beautiful]] [[ConstructedWorld world of Forest Bed]]. The games, produced by the Polish Marek and Martin Rudowski brothers [[http://www.hardydev.com/2009/10/25/interview-with-marek-rudowski-the-trader-of-stories/]] are of the PointAndClickGame sort and web-based - just [[FreewareGames click the link to play]].

The first two installments star a young woman named Myosotis, a traveller who makes it her business to buy stories from people - because, having a severe case of LaserGuidedAmnesia she hopes to find the story that is her own. The later ones, per WordOfGod, are going to have more diverse cast.

* AllThereInTheManual: In ''Bell's Heart'' Myosotis ''carries'' the manual (helpfully written for her by her sister).

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Myo smokes a pipe.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Myo knows her own name, reckognizes her sister, but several years ago has forgotten her entire life story.

* Narrator: Intros and outros feature narration by Myo herself.

* TitleDrop: Myosotis is known around the land as the Trader of Stories.

* IdentityAmnesia: Played with; Myosotis apparently knows her own name and her sister, but has forgotten her entire life story.

* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: ''A Grain of Truth'' at least makes these [[DeadpanSnarker funny]].

* ''Bell's Heart'': When her cart breaks down, Myosotis is forced to stop in a small town with quite a [[GhostStory romantic legend of a haunted lake]]. In the course of her investigation, she discovers how [[StarCrossedLovers romantic the story really is. [[http://jayisgames.com/games/the-trader-of-stories-bells-heart/ Play it here]].

A third game is in development, but no release date has been announced yet.

* YouCantUseTheseThingsTogether: ''A Grain of Truth'' at least makes these [[DeadpanSnarker funny]].

''The Trader of Stories'' (also known as ''The Big Old Tree That Dreams'') is a series of video games about a young woman named Myosotis, who travels a fantastic world buying stories from people- because she has forgotten her own past, and she hopes that by doing so, she might someday regain her own.

The games are produced by the Polish Marek and Martin Rudowski brothers [[http://www.hardydev.com/2009/10/25/interview-with-marek-rudowski-the-trader-of-stories/]] and are of the point-and-click format. Two games have been made so far:

* ''Bell's Heart'': when her cart breaks down, Myosotis is forced to stop at a small town where a legend speaks of a haunted lake. Investigating, she discovers the story of a tragic romance.

* ''A Grain of Truth'': To find a wiseman who can help her find her past, Myosotis must first unravel the mystery of the Floating Rocks.

The games are unusual for fantasy games in many ways. First, they're nonviolent (which is actually lampshaded in the second game) concentrating more on worldbuilding; and for having a main protagonist who isn't the usual White Male stereotype.

A third game is in development but has no current release date.

!Tropes in The Trader of Stories:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Myosotis resembles a Romani or a Native American in looks and dress (but is actually neither since the game doesn't take place on our world.)
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Myosotis does this in the second game. Some characters even ask who she's talking to.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: The people of this world sometimes use words we know in different ways. For example they call their steeds "horses" despite their being different creatures.
** They also use "Breaths" to mean "days" and "Blossoms" to mean "years".
* CerebusSyndrome: The second game is more funny than the first (even breaking the fourth wall a few times) but is also much harder. It also has a heck of an unexpected ending.
* DeadpanSnarker: Myosotis, in the second game.

* FantasticRacism: A mild example in "Bell's Heart": Humans and "Butterflies" are forbidden to marry; while not an open hate thing, it still causes the lovers' tragedy.
* ForeShadowing: The ending of the second game hints at [[spoiler:the possible destruction of the world]] in the next game, and Myosotis' amnesia is somehow connected to it.
* IdentityAmnesia: Played with; Myosotis apparently knows her name and her sister, but has forgotten her entire life, for unknown reasons.
* KleptomaniacHero: Myosotis, like most game heroes. (in the second game, she almost sounds proud of it.)
* MeaningfulName: Myosotis is another name for the flower known as- Forget-Me-Not.

* RipVanWinkle: This happens to both [[spoiler:the Wiseman and Myosotis]] when they commune with the Great Tree in the second game.
* StarCrossedLovers: The theme of "Bell's Heart."
* SteamPunk: a mild example: The wiseman owns scientific equipment [[spoiler:including a movie projector.]]
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: The Wiseman. Like Yoda, he sounds. Intentionally, it probably is.
* TitleDrop: Myosotis is known around the land as the Trader of Stories.

* TwistEnding: A Grain of Truth has a big one.
* WeirdTradeUnion: The crew of the Cloud Eater in the second game. They collect ''clouds'', which in this world are solid and used to make pillows.
** Myosotis would qualify too, if there are other story traders.
* WorldTree: The Big Old Oak, a mountain-sized tree that stands at the center of the world. It can be seen from everywhere, and the locals believe it created the world and pray to it. [[spoiler: It is also responsible for the existence of clouds and floating rocks.]]

* KleptomaniacHero: Myosotis, like most game heroes. (in the second game, she almost sounds proud of it, which, given her gypsy looks, may have UnfortunateImplications...)

* RipVnWinkle: This happens to both [[spoiler:the Wiseman and Myosotis]] when they commune with the Great Tree in the second game.

The games are produced by Pastel Games and are of the point-and-click format. Two games have been made so far:

* SteamPunk: a mild example: The wise owns scientific equipment [[spoiler:including a movie projector.]]