Aphrodite's Day Off by RileyKhin
A short visual novel and our first Ludum Dare submission!
Hermes is punished with handling Aphordite's love affairs.

Listen to her followers well, and pocket some offerings for yourself. But whatever you do, do not summon her.

Featuring two endings for each character, including Hermes.
Edit: Fixed ending text
Edit: Uploaded a HTML5 version to (hopefully) fix image loading bug
Controls
- Intro and endings advance on their own
- Left Click to advance text
- Alt+F4 to exit
Credits
- @tyaisco: Prop Art, Writing & UI Design
- @RileyKhin: Intro & Ending Animations, Writing & VFX
- @harveymakesgame: Programming
- @seonhiyy: Character & BG Art
- @kempyy: Composer & SFX
| Link | https://reaprieve.itch.io/aphrodites-day-off |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/aphrodite-summon |
Ratings
| Overall | 647th | 3.5⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1016th | 2.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 828th | 3.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1140th | 2.69⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 145th | 4.37⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 192th | 3.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 413th | 3.75⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 104🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
I had the same problem as Neandi, though: the character images do not load. Too bad, this made the dialogs quite confusing - and judging from your screenshots, the art would have been nice. The only thing I saw during the whole game was the scale, dialogs and background.

The end texts were also a bit too fast for me, I couldn't read until the end.
Other than that: nice work!
Also I was lost: you don't get any feedback until the game over.
Great artwork and soundtrack.
I really hope you update it later.
Good job!)
Beautiful art, art indeed, nothing speaks art more than greek gods, IMAO. Found the writting and music very nice too and the whole vibe went together well. Agree with the comment above that it is probably one of the best games I have played this jam, too bad not as many people have tried yet. Great work! C:
A personal note: our team also thought about such decision-based visual novels involving deities and supernatural powers, but eventually dumped this idea. Kudos for making this a reality ^ ^