Delicious Letters by ZakAmana
October 1738, Somewhere in the French countryside
You are a rich and bored aristocrat in Rococo France, stuck in your noble domain, with nothing to entertain yourself but your sassy mind and the many admirers you met in the city.
Keep the flame alive by sending the right love letters to your highly jealous and demanding lovers. :cupid:

When answering an admirer, choose the right sentences with the appropriate tone - sentimental, passionate or cheeky - in order to fuel that ardent fire. Sometimes keeping them waiting might be a better solution than expressing the wrong sentiment... What’s certain is that disappointing their amorous expectations could well be the last thing that you do.

| Youtube | https://zak-amana.itch.io/delicious-letters |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/burning-liaisons |
Ratings
| Overall | 74th | 4.185⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 140th | 4⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 62th | 4.169⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 79th | 4.306⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 115th | 4.484⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 170th | 4.025⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 128th | 4.04⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 96th | 4.226⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 1🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
Your superb idea executed with such exquisite style spark light to my dim existence.
I'm glad I found you and long to revisit you already.
In awe and utter astonishment,
Your fondest of admirers
<3
The only thing I missed was a way to cancel writing a letter once started so I could choose to ignore instead if the available options don't suit.
If there's something I can say is that I don't really like the ignore button behavior as is.
The player needs to know what it does right away (seems that I couldn't ignore the first letter), maybe only being able ton answer the next day then ? Anyway that was just to try to give some contructive
design feedback, but you know... Really good entry!
Anyway great game, could be turned into something bigger and attractive.
The letters themselves weren't very well-worded and the storytelling kind of fell flat there. I was enjoying reading through them, but my sentences seemed to have little connect with each other, and at one point an unmarried lady sent me a letter saying something about her husband.
However, the complaint is simply a minor quip at an otherwise excellent game.
Anyway, good job!
As some of the others have said, a little more variation to the words would round it out nicely. It might also be nice if there were some sort of reward system if you reach a certain level of affection with one of the admirers, just some small goal system to keep one engaged and feeling like you're making progress within the "story". There was a tiny glitch where when you died and the game restarted none of the letters were clickable anymore, had to refresh the page.
Also the love/passion/intelligence managing system was a bit opaque at first and by the time you realise you've made a horrible mistake you couldn't back out of writing the letter. But that said I thoroughly enjoyed the central premise, the management system was just challenging enough to be engaging, and overall it was a breath of fresh air.
Nice aesthetics, te art and sound are on point! Really nice interpretation of the theme! Great Game.
on the other hand I didn't find it fun that much.
at first I thought its about playing with lines to make them respond in ways. then discovered that it was about balancing the resources. you need to remember what "type" of letters you have and know your audience before you respond..
overall I enjoyed the experience.
have to ask though . does it have an ending?
I did encounter a bug, though. After dying, I was unable to open anymore letters, all I could do was sleep. Refreshing the browser fixed it
Other than that though, I loved it! Bravo.
I had some minor issues with it. I wish Ignore button on letter screen would be replaced with Back, cause at first I thought that I can't watch other characters before making a decision weather ignore the current one or not. Also it would be great to have some narrative inside letters which probably may have some clues regarding the ending of specific person. And I'd love to have an opportunity to reset letter if I noticed that it's better to ignore one more day than to send what you wrote. And please, add "Are you sure you want to sleep?" window cause I almost ruined my play by accidentally clicking on it :laughing:
But it is a great game and idea. Good luck!