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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #190 | 4.233 | 4.233 |
| Originality | #200 | 4.070 | 4.070 |
| Overall | #357 | 3.744 | 3.744 |
| Fun | #463 | 3.593 | 3.593 |
Ranked from 86 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
By answering each of your date's questions, it spirals out of control. The rhythm that partially decides your answer is out of you control
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all audio during the game jam
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I would really recommend this game! well done - I played it 3 times until I managed to impress her !
Thank you very much! Glad you were successful in the end xD
I was laughing my head off on this one. Really funny concept! Would love to play a further version of this where you get more dates after a successful one and the curse is a bit different / harder every time. The endboss / enddate could be Crushendo himself :D
Brilliant, glad you found our game so funny! I'm not sure whether the team want to continue working on this game or not, but there definitely is a lot of scope for expansion, even just from the things we had to leave on the cutting room floor!
Very brilliant game. I had a nice date <3. Great work.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
So "foraging with myself," was game over, but "murdering without you," gave me sultry eyes? I mean, I guess it's considerate not to bring them along for such daring adventures. In all seriousness, though, I really liked this style of dialogue, it made talking in a video game fun. Good work on the game!
Haha I can't comment as I ran out of time to contribute anything to the dialogue script myself, but I'm sure there's a logic to it! I'm glad you enjoyed the gameplay, thank you for the comment!
Loved it
keep permadeath it's only thing I can ask of
Thank you! I am sure that the now-beloved permadeath will somehow become a feature xD
Goofy game idea. I like the premise! I wish you at least had time to scroll through the options before the note played tho... sometimes they went really really fast. Great polish :)
Yup, part of the game, *out of control* Made for replayability, but it may have been too fast xD
yeah i hear that. more realistic that you don't have tons of time to think about responses :D
Very funny and unique game! However I ran into a bug where when I failed, I restarted and the music stopped which made it impossible to progress.
Also for the love of all that is holy keep the permadeath bug it's hilarious.
Thank you! We have become very aware of the ending bug (especially after the GMTK stream xD), I am not the programmer but I'm sure we can find a way to keep the now-beloved permadeath bug alive! Glad that you enjoyed our game despite the issues!
this is such a funny idea i literally can't believe how well this works! also the fact that she doesnt speak to you if you fuck up is SO GREAT! i was crying laughing because of the dialogue :D GREAT game first game i gave 5 stars everywhere
Thank you very much! 5/5 is high praise indeed. I'm glad that you found our game so incredibly funny!
Thanks! Glad you found it that funny ^^
This is hilarious and fun.
Bonus points for the evil magician's name, Crushendo, which is genius.
Thank you! Credit for Crushendo goes to a good friend of mine, who helped me come up with an evil music mage name while I was too busy drawing assets to think straight!
I'm commenting to tell you that you need to keep that permadeath feature where a date is ruined even after you try to start again
Yes, I just watched the stream archive and saw it for the first time despite working on it (I'm running a Mac RIP) and it is quite funny, in it's own way xD
Great concept and really charming!
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!
Love the art! The chat options are great. Had a good laugh.
Thank you, warms my heart as the game artist to see you say that! Glad you had fun playing our game!
Such a cool idea and execution!Very simple and easy to play, but very fun! I love it!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed our game, there was a lot of struggle involved in refining the core mechanic xD
Wow, very impressive visual and music for the time we had ! i like the idea, but i failed to impress my date :'(
Thank you for playing, sorry your date didn't work out :(!
As the artist, I'm glad you found my work impressive - I'm slightly surprised I pulled it off in the time available too!
I'm so impressed with the art and music of this game, especially with timing the melody to the dialogue timer (I can imagine that might've taken a while to get right)! I had a problem with trying to play again after losing, either it would go to the "We shouldn't continue with this date" screen, or the music would stop and thus the dialogue would freeze. It was alright though, I could close the game and reboot it easily. Anyway, very bold doing a dating sim in a game jam, especially one this unique, but it definitely paid off!
Thank you very much! As the game artist, I'm very happy that you were impressed with the visuals. The composer and programmer worked super hard to make the game mechanic work, and sound good too! Glad you enjoyed playing, and found our game unique!
Nice idea ! Maybe a bit difficult to control, sometimes, i was robbed out of choices because the timer. Anyway, artstyle is pretty cool also
Thank you! As the artist, I'm glad you found the visuals pleasing, and enjoyed the concept too!
A really cool idea, and I made it to the end (though I'm not entirely sure how after accidentally telling her that my hobby was sleeping with friends). I'd have liked it to be a little more obvious how much time you have. Other than that it was pretty cool
Thanks for playing! Your other answers must have been pleasing to get away with that blooper xD
In an ideal world we would have had a visual timer as an accessibility option, but playing without certainly leans into the Jam theme! As is, the time limit got us in the end, nevertheless, glad you enjoyed it!
I managed to get a 14 somehow! Im not sure how the system for getting right answers work, but some of them did manage to get a laugh outta me (most notably, I would keep my job because I hate my money for the last one). There was a problem with restarting however, where after pressing play again the music would continue but then end and id be stuck, forced to restart the game.
As for the art and music, both were brilliant and fit each other really well. great job!
Really glad someone got to take their date home with a high score! Yeah, the game was made to be replayable, but forgot to *make* it replayable, unless you restart haha. Thanks!
As the game artist, I'm glad you thought it looked well! Thanks for playing!
Appreciate that! I'm happy to hear that the music fit and along with the art and that they helped deliver this little world!
(also, I may be biased from being a furry, but I love the art, and it's impressive that you did it all during the jam)
As the artist, thank you very much for the complement! We went with bird-people to try and create a design that everyone playing could relate to more easily. I'm pleased to say that I completed it all without pulling an all-nighter... just!
This is really far out of my usually genres, but I really enjoyed it! Loved the humor of scrambling through the options to avoid saying something completely stupid, and that pun on the magician's name was top-notch groan-worthy. Good job!
Thank you very much! Alas, credit for 'Crushendo' must go to a friend of mine, who threw music words at me until something stuck as I was too busy drawing to think xD Glad you enjoyed the game so much, especially as it's not a genre you usually play!