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Date or Die by Pavel Smejkal

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made by Pavel Smejkal for LD 41 (JAM)

​Roguelike dating simulator. Fight through hordes of enemies to find the love of your life.

Reach level 3 with one of the girls to win. The more levels you have in total, the harder the game gets.

Which girl do you like the best? :)

You can play it here! (More links below)

We did not have as much time for this entry; therefore, there is still a lot of placehodler art.

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HTML5 (web) https://aldarion.itch.io/date-or-die
Windows https://aldarion.itch.io/date-or-die
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/ydrkfhh2s3euj5n/DateOrDie.zip?dl=0
Source code https://bitbucket.org/smejkapa/ld41
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/date-or-die

Ratings

Overall 821th 3.214⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 745th 3.143⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1084th 2.625⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 901th 3.125⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1038th 2.407⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 729th 2.411⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 617th 2.821⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 981th 2.732⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 39🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

Fylipp
24. Apr 2018 · 08:43 UTC
Nice game!
Team Luminous
24. Apr 2018 · 08:56 UTC
Very fun; loved the cheesy pick-up lines. Felt that earth is the strongest — but tended to be the hardest to get to.
🎤 Pavel Smejkal
24. Apr 2018 · 09:03 UTC
@Team-Luminous If you mean that you leveled up Earth and it was hard to get to in the next level, that is intentional. You can either level all girls up but then the game is hard on its own, or you can follow the one desired girl but you usually need to fight through more rooms to get to her :)

Thanks for your feedback.
Bitten Toast Games
24. Apr 2018 · 12:04 UTC
Interesting idea, not a fan of shooting in one direction would be great if it followed the mouse. Personally didn't read the text of the girls, just kept clicking until I got the skill.
jcwelgemoed
24. Apr 2018 · 15:20 UTC
Cool game. I did manage to walk out of a door into the black and find all the girls off to the side and get a screen with placeholder text. Is that supposed to happen?
🎤 Pavel Smejkal
24. Apr 2018 · 15:30 UTC
@jcwelgemoed No, that's not supposed to happen :D It's probably a bug in the procedural generation or just an exception. Thanks for the feedback!
PSiv
24. Apr 2018 · 16:30 UTC
It's like the binding of isaac but instead of bosses there's girls to chat up! I chose to burn it all down with the fire lady :) Minor issue, Some rooms the enemies spawned too close to the entrance so as soon as you walk in they hit you
Synthphonia
24. Apr 2018 · 17:47 UTC
hahah low the "aww" sfx XD
jac_B
25. Apr 2018 · 12:44 UTC
I like this game. It's fun and easy to play. I really like that dating/upgrading mechanic, but I don't like that you can't really fail in conversation. I would like to see 1 or 2 new enemies as I progress in game. Overall game is great and also sound effects are really on point.
yancharkin
28. Apr 2018 · 11:52 UTC
I like the concept a lot. Right now implementation not perfect, but that's understandable for a jam game.

Pros:
+ Dialogs are good written
+ SFX are funny

Cons:
- Gameplay a bit too repetitive
- No music
vfqd
30. Apr 2018 · 14:47 UTC
Cool game, it was a completely unexpected take on the theme but I think you did that really well :smile: I'd like to see changes to prevent enemies from spawning right on top of you when you enter a room because often it felt unavoidable to be hit by them
WorkInProgress
01. May 2018 · 21:06 UTC
I liked the game, it's very intuitive.
maymakegame
12. May 2018 · 17:03 UTC
This was really fun! I died a few times before I got the hang of it, but it was a really good challenge!