Interesting story and great approach a visual novels with different gameplay elements !
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Mika's Diary's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #320 | 3.448 | 3.448 |
| Visuals | #392 | 3.759 | 3.759 |
| Enjoyment | #683 | 3.230 | 3.230 |
| Overall | #720 | 3.117 | 3.117 |
| Theme | #921 | 2.851 | 2.851 |
| Innovation | #960 | 2.770 | 2.770 |
| Gameplay | #1027 | 2.644 | 2.644 |
Ranked from 87 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
You find someone's personal diary and decide to read it. You soon get emotionally invested in their life. What could go wrong?
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Music from Pixabay
Eiffel tower background scene and room backgrounds
How many people worked on the game?4
Comments
An interesting story with an immersive music!
Good story telling, thank you for game
I played (More likely watched an immersive movie) all the way through. Hooked me up till the end.
Also, I am wondering if there are different possible outcomes for different choices like I selected to do business and tell the truth when the friend asked. What if I did the opposite?
I loved the gameplay element at the start, I thought I was playing a cooking game and then found myself immersed in a visual novel, really good work!
I'm really impressed that you guys made this in a week of the game jam! full story complete with illustration and scenarios! you guys truly dedicated to the creation!
I don't really into romance-themed game tho, but still finished the game because I get really into the story that I can't help myself but to finished it. Overall, I love how you guys slip little gameplay in some part of the game. like the cooking gameplay one at the beginning of the story! it was a good addition for the player to interact more within the game. You guys can put more gameplay into the story to keep the player immersed in the story. The game has a lot of potential!
Personal opinion: I'd wish the story was different. Maybe it's a story about the main character having a diary of an abused little girl and then try everything to help her. Because I felt like 21 y.o. woman doesn't really use diary these days, maybe if she was using social media and tell her story through posts, it'd make a lot more sense to me.
Overall, you guys really put passion and effort into making the game! Truly amazing! :D
Thank you for the feedback! We did have more minigames planned, but had to cut them due to time constraints.
We did want a diary to be the main focus, but I can see how that would seem unnecessary in today's day and age. We probably could have flushed out the story more to make sense of the diary if we had enough time.
The age was added to make sense of a small part of the story which in retrospect made other parts seems off. We will surely look out for such details in the future. Thank you for taking the time to write your thoughts!
Lovely story and the music and art complements it very nicely.
The twist with the story were great too!
Good job, keep it up!
this was made in a week?? do you guys sleep? haha this is so much content I love it <3
I have to say that the art, visuals and the music is sooo well done! It's impressive how much "content" there was for just a week of work, incredible work guys!
A masterpiece! An incredible feat to pull off such an engaging and beautiful game in just a week! A huge congratulations! 5/5 all the way through :)
Wonderful game! It is truly impressive with what you guys came up with in a week, the soundtrack and art were exceptional; nicely done!
I usually really don't like visual novels. But the premise to this one was really good, congrats on getting this done in only a week.
Start as a cooking game then suddenly into the visual novel. :-) Like the music selection a lot. Good job.
I loved the art, the story, the music, it all fit together really well! Great job!
Music and art style are something special. Story, minigames, dialogues, it all sucked me in... It is beautiful, I'm left with no words. Impressive!
What a cool take on the theme! This was really neat. The music was really fitting with the story, and the artwork was gorgeous. The dialogue could use some crispness-- some of the way the characters spoke felt a little young for their ages-- but this was a really neat game.
Thank you for a short brief of emotional roller coaster! The story is a bit rushed tho. The art and music is chill and healing.
Wow, not much of a game - but damn - great story and it somehow felt like a movie. The artstyle is georgeous :) Unexpected for me but an awesome submission! Thank you







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