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A jam submission

Mika's DiaryView game page

Submitted by Dan5626, Börje, ItsRooga, kiruto091 (@ezenki1) — 8 hours, 1 minute before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#3203.4483.448
Visuals#3923.7593.759
Enjoyment#6833.2303.230
Overall#7203.1173.117
Theme#9212.8512.851
Innovation#9602.7702.770
Gameplay#10272.6442.644

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

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Submitted

Interesting story and great approach a visual novels with different gameplay elements !  

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

An interesting story with an immersive music!

Good story telling, thank you for game

Developer

Thank you for playing!

Submitted

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?

Developer(+1)

Some options have small consequences like dialogues changing. Others have a bit bigger consequence like skipping whole scenes or gameplay elements. But the ending is linear.

Submitted

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!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

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

Developer(+1)

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!

Submitted

Lovely story and the music and art complements it very nicely.

The twist with the story were great too!

Good job, keep it up!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

this was made in a week?? do you guys sleep? haha this is so much content I love it <3

Developer(+1)

What's sleep?

Thank you for taking the time to play our game!

Submitted

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!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

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 :)

Developer

Thank you so much!

Submitted

Wonderful game! It is truly impressive with what you guys came up with in a week, the soundtrack and art were exceptional; nicely done!

Developer

Thank you for playing! 

Submitted

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.

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Start as a cooking game then suddenly into the visual novel. :-) Like the music selection a lot. Good job.

Developer(+1)

Thanks!

Submitted

I loved the art, the story, the music, it all fit together really well! Great job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

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! 

Developer

Thank you for playing!

Submitted

Not my genre of game but nonetheless, enjoyed it!

After I finished the diary and went on to the next day, my Mac mini m2 on Safari with 8gb ram stopped playing :(

So, I couldn't play it fully.

Well done! Well drawn, good details.

Developer(+1)

That's unfortunate! Thank you for playing tho!

Submitted

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.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted

What an original take on the theme. Great art and music choice :)

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

What an original take on the theme. Great art and music choice :)

Submitted

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. 

Developer

I'm glad we could take you on an emotional roller coaster ride. We tried to polish the story as much as we could within  the 7 days.

Submitted (1 edit)

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

Developer

Thank you!

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