Datesweeper by Tygrak

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made by Tygrak for LD 41 (COMPO)

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A dating sim and minesweeper combined!

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Choose one of the 8 characters, find hearts in a minefield, get the phone number!

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Created using Dart, using pure HTML5 canvases. I recommend using the full screen mode on itch.io.

Ratings

Overall 268th 3.5⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 231th 3.475⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 241th 3.575⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 20th 4.375⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 446th 3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 268th 3.079⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 11th 4.15⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 127th 3.5⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 23🗨️

Feedback

Robber
23. Apr 2018 · 01:24 UTC
hahaha.. the best idea!
Elfcirynn
23. Apr 2018 · 01:37 UTC
The music and the graphics were fun, nice genre mix up!
Useless
23. Apr 2018 · 12:33 UTC
great idea for a genre combination! had a lot of fun with this! also, you can play as northernlion 10/10
Shoj92
23. Apr 2018 · 12:33 UTC
Really like the concept! With some polish I can see this being a fun little game to play.
thesedatedprince
23. Apr 2018 · 12:35 UTC
Brilliant idea!
tayl1r
23. Apr 2018 · 12:37 UTC
A butt pooping an egg is not the smooth talker one might expect!
🎤 Tygrak
23. Apr 2018 · 12:42 UTC
@Useless Thank you! Hahaha, nice! I knew someone would recognize my inspiration!
Mathiouza
23. Apr 2018 · 14:42 UTC
Interesting game ! It's been a while I did not play to the "Démineur" in french ^^
Congrats and keep coding ^^ (and you music is not as awful as you think)
DarkAnice
23. Apr 2018 · 15:03 UTC
pretty fun game, although the butt pooping an egg should be an instant win to represent the real world a bit more. (jokes ofcourse ;D)
-FA-
23. Apr 2018 · 16:02 UTC
Maybe it just me, but I totally ignored the dating part. For me, it was a minesweeper with hearts.
mrspeaker
23. Apr 2018 · 18:22 UTC
Yeah, I loved the music - it was perfect. I learned somethin' about life too. What more could you want from an LD entry?
Lerg
24. Apr 2018 · 10:59 UTC
Very cool! The butt is the best, and the music is like ice cream on my ears, heh.
Baby Dino Herd
27. Apr 2018 · 03:59 UTC
Really great idea, excellent music, and well-polished gameplay! It really kept me engaged!

I would have preferred smaller/shorter minesweeper sessions, maybe even timed, to keep the pace up so I can more time on the narrative half of the game.
Ted Carter
03. May 2018 · 16:16 UTC
I'm apparently really bad at Minesweeper :cry: Pretty fun. I liked that difficulty was visible for the dialogue choices. Sometimes I'd choose something really hard just because it was a more interesting topic :D
Zirrrus
03. May 2018 · 18:32 UTC
Oh...I'm absolutely terrible at minesweeper, apparently.

Still, the concept is fun and the game gets the idea across very well. Nice!
jshaffer94247
04. May 2018 · 04:20 UTC
Funny combo. Yeah, it is kind of a minefield, isn't it?
zeu31
07. May 2018 · 18:39 UTC
Nice combination! I like the idea. And it has some good jokes too.
I like how the hearts mechanic changed the minesweeper gameplay.
Maybe making the minesweeper board smaller would improve the pacing a little.
The difficult is unnecessarily confusing to me. Changing just the amount of hearts that each board has and making everything else the same would be a simpler way to change the difficult, in my opinion.
I would like if the board always started with some space already open. It seems that the game already tries to do this, but most of the time it only opens one square. I would suggest to always open one (maybe more) random square without any mines or hearts next to it, to guarantee that more than one square will open.

Great game! =)