Everydate by BytingGames
Take on the exciting adventure of going on your typical date where you have nothing to say.

Seduce charming Rachel with limited but strikingly precise answers, to make her fall in love with you like she could never imagine.

| Developer | Developed | Link | | ------------- |-------------| -----| | Julian | Code, Writing | https://bytinggames.com | | KoraktorXV | Code, Writing, 2D Art | https://www.youtube.com/user/KoraktorXV | | Seba (Koì) | 3D Art | | Bertsz | Sound, Music | https://clyp.it/user/lnf2jiq2 | Special thanks to Fenja, Leander, Isa, Simon and Diana for additional writing, ideas, testing and other awesome stuff like good company and food!
| Youtube | https://bytinggames.com/download/download.php?file=Everydate.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/everydate |
Ratings
| Overall | 351th | 3.636⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 520th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 421th | 3.386⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 529th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 430th | 3.727⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 293th | 3.523⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 51th | 4⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 219th | 3.795⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
I was impressed at how well put together the world was. Usually jam games feel incomplete but this one felt like a really full experience. The music really suited the whole coffee shop setting as well, which really added to the experience. The graphics were a little too polygonal for my taste, but that's just me. Maybe throwing a smoothing shader on all the models would make it look better. Getting an art-style nailed down is not an easy task, but this game was very consistent which is great. I would just recommend either using less polygons or smoothing out the model to hide all the polys.
Out of all the jam games I would be really interested in seeing this one expanded. It isn't a stereotypical visual novel at all which is a great change of pace. The characters feel more alive, and the dialogue was really fun to read. I would be down to play an "awkward life simulator" that goes through the characters life more.
Great Job!
There were two things in this jam that really stood out for me:
1. The moment when my date starts speaking faster and faster (and I'm reading frantically to catch up) and then my character zens out. That was unexpectedly cool.
2. The facial expressions. These breathed a ton of life into the worlds characters and made me feel so much closer to my date.
really liked the idea. The dialogues were funny and well written and her facial expressions were a great touch.
The ending surprised me but explained a lot xD
Really well done, congrats!