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Chasing High Scores and Hearts's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #47 | 3.733 | 3.733 |
| Sounds | #131 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #167 | 2.973 | 2.973 |
| End-of-life plan | #179 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Fun | #214 | 2.533 | 2.533 |
| Theme relevance | #274 | 2.400 | 2.400 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
End life plan
The game is going to stay up on itch - a downloadable version is free and available for anyone who wants it locally
Transparency note
reused assets:
1. avoid game (a reworked minigame i used in my last web novel. there were some changes but it is functionally the same)
Assets by others:
Music is by D-Wheat Music, UI sounds by Nathan Gibson.
AI CODE:
I used gen ai for code help and debugging.
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Really nice art, and a cool concept for this theme! Great game :)
thank you so much ;~;
Good game!
Nice graphics and mechanics.
thank you! I also liked the art for your game <3
Woah a visual novel! I enjoyed the dialogue, art, and music. I found some of the dialogue options hilarious. I found a bug where the first dialogue option with Yusef is always "I was hired to talk to losers."
omg… thanks for reporting this bug back to me!
This was a really cool experience! I especially liked that the game touched on the theme of "high score chasers" on multiple different levels. Nya~
thanks so much!!!
Honestly didn't expect to encounter this type of game. Pleasantly surprised!
I’m so glad I could surprise you!
Wow! Really beautiful artwork!
Wow thanks so much! It means a lot!
Nice art and I enjoyed the joke options in the dialog. Also nice use of the theme and you making 3 minigames in this time is impressive. Only thing I would say the one song does get repetitive
The songs change depending on where you are in the map. If you only heard one song, that's not intentional. Could you describe the song you heard and if you swapped places in the game often? Just so i know if i need to go back and fix anything
I think it's the bar music, I guess I spend the most time there while reading all the lines
Ahhhh... That makes sense! All that reading and only one song for every character...
It was my first time adding sound in a game so this is really helpful feedback. Thank you!
Also thanks so much for feedback 😭😭😭😭 srsly
It looks like it's going to be a really fun game. I'm looking forward to future updates!
YES!!! I AM MATEO’S BOYFRIENDDD !!!!!!
-coughs- sorry-, i might have been too carried away. Great game :-). All characters were very charismatic, except Yusuf, he was kind of a dick to me. But other than that, it was fun to talk to the guys :D. I even got to date my boss (that sounds so bad LMAO).
Art is really good and the theme was used very originally. IDK if it was intentional but I also appreciated the gender neutrality in the player’s dialogue.
I intentionally wrote the player as gender neutral! I HATE when all the dating Sims force me to be a woman but i also suck at remembering gender macros. The best part of only having character/player interactions is that there is almost no chance to write pronouns, hahahahahah! (My last game also used gender neutral language but i did that accidentally. I meant to code in gender macros and kept forgetting because i naturally default to they/them)