History VideoGame / FarnhamFables

* The Three Princes: Fredrick, Flewdor, and Philip, the princes of Farnham, travel to a village inhabited by native lizard people in search of a medicine that can cure their father. Along the way, they end up rescuing a little girl from a rampaging beast. The PilotEpisode of the series, with quite a lot of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. Released on April 27th, 2014.
* The King's Medicine: Basically a rewritten version of the pilot, with an added FramingDevice of the King of Farnham telling the story to Naigye and Calnique Isia, RatPeople who were visiting the castle. Released on June 20th, 2015.
* Just Another Sunday: The Edisons, a family of LizardFolk farmers, come back from church one Sunday morning, only to find that the gate to their cow pasture has been broken and one of their cows has gone missing. It's up to Wendy to find the lost cow, help fix the gate, and cheer up her sister Winona, who blames herself for the incident. Released on September 1st, 2016.
* Animals at School: Prince Philip Farnham is ready to give the students of Brown Forest Elementary School a special presentation about rare mythical creatures. Unfortunately, an incident leads to the animals running amok in the school, and Philip takes upon the task of convincing them to return to the gym. Released on December 18th, 2017.
* Little Dog Dreams: Theresa Doyle has a strange dream in which she is visited by Althea the Nightmare, who imposes a quest upon her: she must collect the six Rainbow Keys in order to cross the peanut butter river and reunite with her friend [[AuthorAvatar Andrew]]. Released on August 22nd, 2019.

* SliceOfLife: The second episode's "plot" can basically be summed up as "Wendy helps out around the family farm." This is reflected in the episode's title, "Just Another Sunday".

** Theresa enters a trailer which supposedly belongs to Yvonne Stroker, a MadScientist obsessed with tickle torture. If certain conditions have been met, Theresa can subject dream versions of her bullies, Angelica and Janine, to a bit of tickling in the Tickletron... but once she thinks they've had enough, she realizes that she has no idea how to actually stop the machine, and every button she pushes just ends up turning up the intensity.

*** Whichever prince is currently holding Gloria's clothes will be the one to hand them back to Rachael once they're reunited. Fredrick and Flewdor are rather nonchalant about it, while the prudish Philip has to turn his head away due to Rachael being topless.

* LiveItem: In Episode 1, once you rescue Gloria, she's put into Fredrick's inventory as if she was an item.

** Theresa enters a trailer which supposedly belongs to Yvonne Stroker, a MadScientist obsessed with tickle torture. If certain conditions have been met, Theresa can subject dream versions of her bullies, Angelica and Janine, to a bit of tickling in the Tickletron... but once she thinks they've had enough, she realizes that she has no idea how to actually stop the machine.

** The dark forest is guarded by tickle vines, magical plants which tickle unsuspecting passerbys. To enter the forest, Theresa needs to put on protective boots. If she takes off the boots inside the forest, or gets teleported inside while barefoot, and tries to leave without putting them back on, well...

Some of the episodes are free to download on the [[http://www.ethreadreams.com/ Ethrea Dreams]] website or itch.io, with more of them becoming free as more installments are released. So far, the following episodes have been released:

** The dark forest is guarded by tickle vines, magical plants which tickle unsuspecting passerbys. To enter the forest, Theresa needs to put on protective boots. If she takes off the boots inside the forest and tries to leave, well...

* The Three Princes: Fredrick, Flewdor, and Philip, the princes of Farnham, travel to a village inhabited by native lizard people in search of a medicine that can cure their father. Along the way, they end up rescuing a little girl from a rampaging beast. The PilotEpisode of the series, with quite a lot of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
* The King's Medicine: Basically a rewritten version of the pilot, with an added FramingDevice of the King of Farnham telling the story to Naigye and Calnique Isia, RatPeople who were visiting the castle.
* Just Another Sunday: The Edisons, a family of LizardFolk farmers, come back from church one Sunday morning, only to find that the gate to their cow pasture has been broken and one of their cows has gone missing. It's up to Wendy to find the lost cow, help fix the gate, and cheer up her sister Winona, who blames herself for the incident.
* Animals at School: Prince Philip Farnham is ready to give the students of Brown Forest Elementary School a special presentation about rare mythical creatures. Unfortunately, an incident leads to the animals running amok in the school, and Philip takes upon the task of convincing them to return to the gym.
* Little Dog Dreams: Theresa Doyle has a strange dream in which she is visited by Althea the Nightmare, who imposes a quest upon her: she must collect the six Rainbow Keys in order to cross the peanut butter river and reunite with her friend [[AuthorAvatar Andrew]].

* TheSmartGuy: Flewdor is the most well-read of the princes. He carries a large reference book around, and his unique verb is "Study". In Episode 1, he's the one who can tell which mushroom Dr. Keith needs to make the medicine.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Philip is able to talk to animals. In Episode 1, he communicates with a fox in order to cure it of its illness and have it track the lost Gloria, and in Episode 3 he uses this talent to convince the escaped creatures to wait for him in the gym.

* RunningGag: Every episode has a pebble which can be picked up as an inventory item, even though it's never actually needed to do anything.

''Farnham Fables'' is a series of episodic [[PointAndClickGame Point-and-Click Games]] by Ethrea Dreams. The games are set in the Kingdom of Farnham, a region in an alternate version of Earth which is roughly geographically analogous to New England. Although the world is similar to our own in many ways, it also has key differences, such as the presence of HumanoidAnimals and the existence of supernatural phenomena and creatures.

* AlliterativeFamily: The Edisons all have first names which start with a "W": Wilford, William, Wendy, and Winona.

* TheBigGuy: Of the three princes, Fredrick is the physically strongest and most combat-oriented one. His item is a sword, and he's the one who defeats the rampaging boar in Episode 1.

* CombinatorialExplosion: An important part of these games.
** Every possible action that the player can possibly perform will result in a unique response (there are a few rare exceptions, but these are considered bugs and get filled in as soon as the game's creator is made aware of them). Some items even have multiple verbs associated with them, and the response may also change under certain circumstances. The result is that there is a lot of text in these games. However, most of the actions consist of explanations of why the action wouldn't work or why the player character doesn't want to do it, sometimes with a description of what would happen if the character ''did'' want to do it.
** In Episode 4, Theresa can examine herself in the mirror in the potion room: she has three different outfits which she could be wearing (her dress, pajamas, or underwear), there are five potions which cause a different transformation when used (boy, adult, human, dog, or normal), and she can also wear any combination of the hat, boots, and gloves. Every combination of these variables has a different result, for a total of 160 responses.

* DreamWalker: The Dreamgivers, Ethrea and Althea, are spirits which can enter people's dreams. Althea mostly uses these abilities to PokeThePoodle, like in Episode 4 where her "evil plan" basically consists of making Theresa do a FetchQuest. The ending of that episode also reveals that Ethrea can link people's dreams together, [[spoiler:which she does to Andrew in order to put an end to Althea's mischief.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Andrew Tallini, the games' creator, does exist within the universe of Farnham Fables. However, since he lives in the "real world", he doesn't get to interact much with his creations very often; so far, his only appearance in in Episode 4, which is a DreamEpisode.

* AnachronismStew: SubvertedTrope. Episode 1 mostly looks like it's set in medieval times, other than Cally's [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Freya doll]], the presence of a modern bus stop, and Keith speaking in hippie slang. Playing Episode 2 immediately makes it clear that the time period is actually TheNineties, and that the Farnham royal family are the unusually old-fashioned ones.

** In Episode 4, Theresa can examine herself in the mirror in the potion room: she has three different outfits which she could be wearing (her dress, pajamas, or underwear), there are five potions which cause a different transformation when used, and she can also wear any combination of the hat, boots, and gloves. Every combination of these variables has a different result, for a total of 160 responses.

** In Episode 4, Theresa can examine herself in the mirror in the potion room: she has three different outfits which she could be wearing (her dress, pajamas, or underwear), there are five potions which cause a different transformation when used, and she can also wear any combination of the hat, boots, and gloves. Every combination of these variables has a different result.

* CombinatorialExplosion: An important part of these games. Every possible action that the player can possibly perform will result in a unique response (there are a few rare exceptions, but these are considered bugs and get filled in as soon as the game's creator is made aware of them). Some items even have multiple verbs associated with them, and the response may also change under certain circumstances. The result is that there is a lot of text in these games. However, most of the actions consist of explanations of why the action wouldn't work or why the player character doesn't want to do it, sometimes with a description of what would happen if the character ''did'' want to do it.

Some of the episodes are free to download, with more of them becoming free as more installments are released. So far, the following episodes have been released:

So far, the following episodes have been released:

* CombinatorialExplosion: An important part of these games. Every possible action that the player can possibly perform will result in a unique response. Some items even have multiple verbs associated with them, and the response may also change under certain circumstances. The result is that there is a lot of text in these games. However, most of the actions consist of explanations of why the action wouldn't work or why the player character doesn't want to do it, sometimes with a description of what would happen if the character ''did'' want to do it.

*** Theresa starts the episode carrying a plushie of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]], and she also has dolls [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Toriel]], [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Tails]], and [[VideoGame/QuestForGlory Toro]] on her bed.

* The King's Medicine: Basically a rewritten version of the pilot, with an added FramingDevice of the King of Farnham telling the story to Naigye and Calnique Isai, RatPeople who were visiting the castle.