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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun/Design | #6 | 3.813 | 3.813 |
| Graphics/Animation | #7 | 4.375 | 4.375 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.862 | 3.862 |
| Technical Implementation | #8 | 3.813 | 3.813 |
| Theme/Limitation | #13 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Music/Sound | #14 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game apply the limitation and theme?
It's a Real World Task themed game and I used my interpratation of "Decay", as player's attractiveness decay when he doesn't handle main character emotions
Team Size
Solo (1)
Engine
Pico-8
Which diversifiers did you use, if any?
8 Bits , Educational
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I liked the idea and the dialogs.
it was a really good implementation for a Pico-8 development. Congrats!
But I'm really bad at the controls, tho.. Haha
Thanks, Gus Costa!
Yes, most people complained of the difficulty. That’s a problem I could have avoided if I let other people play the game before submitting it. I am glad you liked, though!
As an anxious bald guy, I have to say, very realistic, it is extremely hard to know where to put your hands. This is very charming, I enjoyed the Pico-8 limitations and the little snippets of dialog in between dates. The failure dialog was especially funny. I did notice a bug that if I failed with 1 life left on the last prompt, it would restart the date with 0 attractiveness left, but I managed to land that date eventually. Great work!
Thank you, Neopolis! Yes, I’ve noticed that bug later. It’s actually random, and I found the root cause already, but I decided to fix it later. I’m glad it didn’t ruin your gameplay, and you still had fun!!
Thanks everyone who gave feedback on my game! I wish I could have added more texts and stuff to do in the game. Originally the main character would have other Simple actions, but I had a busy week.
I also just found a bug on it. 🥴 Sometimes when the player loses all 3 attempts, and the game should end, it doesn’t, and simply goes to the beginning of the date.
I know how to fix it already, but I guess I can’t do it at this moment, and should wait until the evaluation period ends.
It has hard to control controls and it was hard getting the hands to go to the hitboxes
This was quite hard to handle, yet very funny and satisfying every time you actually put the hands in the right place.
Really cool idea. I feel the X to skip dialog was a bit of a odd choice, forcing you to play the game with 2 hands, skipping with Enter would have been more intuitive and would allow to play with a single hand since you never have to control the hand and skip dialog at the same time. Also I feel sometimes I was clearly at the right spot and it would seem to detect it was, making it a bit frustrating (special with the wine for some reason). Other than that it was a really well made game, really cool to have all this text and it actually felt like there was a conversation between the character and that my character was acting cool when I succeed are like a douche when I would not.
Really nice idea and well made. Good job.
Really cool, it takes a while to get used to but then it gets really satisfying when you are able to start consistently getting it. The audio fits great. Great job!
I too never know where to put my hands, very realistic, 10/10.
really well made, but I am STRUGGLING to get the hands to do what I want, which I guess is the point lol
Hi Catelyn! Yes. I know it’s a bit difficult. I tried to have it challenging, so people would also see the conversation when the main character fails to interact, but the 3 attempts should also allow players to enjoy the game and try to finish it 😅 thanks for your feedback
Like has been said, it can be very difficult, but I still had fun with it! Very cool concept.
The difficulty is insane. I couldn't move the hand into the position a single time. seems like it could be a very fun game tho and the art/animations are really nice.
this is really hard, but extremely fun. the art is great too
cool game! is this how humans interact? i never go outside