Congratulations on starting your new job in our bookstore. We hope the work is not too demanding as customers can have such varied tastes but are all rather impatient to get their grubby paws on our books. But if you can fetch their books before they give up and shop online (the horror!) there’s good money to be made. We’ll see how you feel after a week, if you make it that far…

Tomes and Time sees you single-handedly staff a bookstore, fetching books for customers who will haggle down or straight up leave if you’re too slow.

Game Maker’s Toolkit Game Jam 2026 Entry. The theme was “Count Down”. That’s represented here by both the customers’ impatience – counting down the seconds before they first become tired, then angry, and then make tracks – and the steady advance of time towards 5PM when the store closes and queuing customers leave empty-handed.