Speed of love by bobylito

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made by bobylito for LD27 (COMPO)
The fastest dating simulator on this side of the galaxy!

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1229
Overall 2.49 1038
Audio 1.32 960
Fun 2.16 1073
Graphics 1.88 1104
Humor 2.96 219
Innovation 3.02 515
Mood 2.22 917
Theme 3.48 260

Feedback

Jayjay
26. Aug 2013 · 04:52 UTC
Aside from the up/down arrows moving too the options too quickly, it's a pretty cool take on the 10s theme =]
mrspeaker
26. Aug 2013 · 09:30 UTC
Ha ha! 10 second dating sim. That's classic... I think you've started a new sub-genre. I think I'd do better with the ladies if real-life worked under these conditions.
levsha128
26. Aug 2013 · 11:46 UTC
Very interesting
bnhw
26. Aug 2013 · 11:49 UTC
I had real trouble trying to select the option I wanted with the arrow keys, but neat concept!
GreenyUk
26. Aug 2013 · 13:30 UTC
Good take on the theme. Same issues as others, touch picking right option and had trouble reading that fast!
alwaysinbeta
26. Aug 2013 · 13:31 UTC
Good theme fit and the writing is really funny. Fun to play.
TaleLore
26. Aug 2013 · 13:32 UTC
Very odd.
Gaspard_
26. Aug 2013 · 13:36 UTC
Indeed it's odd.
rejome
26. Aug 2013 · 18:13 UTC
Didn't catch the point... :'(
Nice shot around the ten seconds theme though.
Erkberg
27. Aug 2013 · 01:29 UTC
It's really hard to read and choose that fast.
matthewvermaak
27. Aug 2013 · 01:42 UTC
That is some fast speed dating :0) Highest rank was C for me.
larb
27. Aug 2013 · 01:47 UTC
Brilliant idea. The arrows and spacebar scrolled my browser down, making it hard to see the game, for some reason. I zoomed out to fix it, but the text was tinu. (I guess my screen resolution is low?) Great entry.
Sebastian
27. Aug 2013 · 05:16 UTC
Hah, interesting!
Szedouu
27. Aug 2013 · 07:06 UTC
interesting game, but text is too fast to read.Anyway good entry!
Beardbotnik
27. Aug 2013 · 10:28 UTC
Interesting game, the controls were pretty hard to work with. Not sure if it was on purpose or not, I didn't have any trouble reading the text for the most part. Very interesting take on the theme. I feel like a little bit of context could have been added using imagery or sound though. I didn't realize that it was a phone conversation the first few tries.
Sense
27. Aug 2013 · 13:28 UTC
Text is going really too fast. I would like to have much more than 1 ^^. Interesting theme however !
JellyMan64
27. Aug 2013 · 13:36 UTC
Nice 10 second theme, but some of that text went way too fast to read. Good game anyway!
g_o
27. Aug 2013 · 14:25 UTC
The problem with this is that I finished the game in 10 secs : O
ArcturusDeluxe
27. Aug 2013 · 17:14 UTC
Funny idea, although not sure what was being said/what I was saying most of the time. It all goes a bit quick.
tripleVisionGames
27. Aug 2013 · 17:59 UTC
Good use of theme and funny too :)
raoz
27. Aug 2013 · 18:59 UTC
ervion: Really interesting concept, hits the mood of the theme very well, everything moving so fast. Controls are a bit slippery thought.
Pavel Dlouhy
27. Aug 2013 · 19:15 UTC
Cool idea! Trying to make comment in 10 seconds. ;-)
esayitch
27. Aug 2013 · 19:34 UTC
Megaspeed dating :P Liked this, short and sweet.
MuciojadPL
27. Aug 2013 · 20:13 UTC
Cool idea, these quickly conversations... ;) But when I lost I had rank screen and probably sometime something is wrong with it ;) Check it ttp://www.iv.pl/images/94546400354541488361.png :) However nice work.
MuciojadPL
27. Aug 2013 · 20:15 UTC
*http at line two in link, my mistake ;)
Christina Nordlander
27. Aug 2013 · 21:57 UTC
Great idea, and I like what you've done with the text (it took a few tries to get used to, but that's part of the challenge). Unfortunately, there wasn't a whole lot to it. It would have worked a lot better with more meaningful conversation topics, I think.

A couple of weird words: "unfornately" (unless that was intentionally slurred), "glooming".
shockedfrog
27. Aug 2013 · 23:57 UTC
Not much to the gameplay but I love the idea. :)
Nick Weihs
28. Aug 2013 · 07:42 UTC
Cool idea, is there only one valid option?
🎤 bobylito
28. Aug 2013 · 09:52 UTC
Thanks for all the comments so far. I'm taking notes for all of them. Generally speaking I was way too full of myself before starting to write anything "it'll be something simple" (yeah that's right) and I struggled with my tech (which is not the point of LD right? ;) ). Here are some answers :

- I couldn't figure out how to make a good menu with keyboard selection so that's why it is totally weird and hard to play. If you have any resources about how to do that properly, share the love ;)

- it definitely lack some context. I didn't have time to make more artwork nor i though about about adding some descriptive text (well, retrospectively I had the idea at some point but then I rushed).

- The points calculation is indeed buggy, I can fix that. (it is in the rule to be able to patch for bugs right?)

- SPOILER ALERT : yes there is only one valid option :P

Thanks so much for taking the time to figure out the idea behind this game. I'll write a more in depth post mortem about the ideas I wanted to implement and how I could have improved everything.
🎤 bobylito
28. Aug 2013 · 09:56 UTC
One more thing about the text speed : time continues to clock while text is displaying so I tried to balance this side effect over the points. It doesn't work out well after all :P
gre
28. Aug 2013 · 15:51 UTC
fun but tough!
ddionisio
29. Aug 2013 · 01:23 UTC
Damn, it happens so fast. Is this a statement about a stereotypical guy's attention span? :P

Selecting a response is a little slippery, I sometimes skip one item.

This is a pretty neat game, I feel like there could be a sequel to this :P
tigerj
29. Aug 2013 · 01:40 UTC
speed dating (sim) lol kinda awesome. I like the name choice to as a closet Evengellion fan
lekochen
29. Aug 2013 · 06:40 UTC
Rank: A. LOL I love it.
fferro234
05. Sep 2013 · 03:49 UTC
Interesting game. Needs a bit more everything though.