Heart of the Matter
A downloadable game
Your friend, who'd invited you to a party in the middle of nowhere, has suddenly stopped texting you back. Nobody here seems to know her, and you don't recognize any faces, either. In fact, you can barely comprehend if they have faces at all.
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(We recommend trying to click on everything and maybe even click on them more than once, sometimes it may yield extra interactions :D Total play time is about ~10 minutes; there is one special scene to unlock a fun item; and try clicking on the phone charm in the ESC menu...!)
This is a Halloween weekend alpha prototype, so everything you see here is subject to change once we finish the full demo, which we're hoping to finish sometime in 2025.
This is our first game ever, so we would really appreciate if you can take our player survey after you're done and also submit any bug reports if you find any!
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GAME PAGE (Game Jolt)
CREDITS
Pixel (Programming & Sound)
Robin Yao (Art, design, writing, and everything else)
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Development log
- Did you see... the little things?22 days ago
- Added some screenshots37 days ago
- Prototype teaser out now!37 days ago
Comments
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I loved this demo! It's very short, but it instantly got me intrigued and I am so curious as to what the full story will be like! Also, for some reason the game wouldn't pick up my mouse/keyboard, but it worked just fine with my PlayStation controller. I uploaded my playthrough over on YouTube as well. <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me7q5R11Qh4
TYSM!!! i left a comment on your vid as well but i was really excited watching your reactions to the game LOL! thank you for giving it a try, it means a lot to me ;w;
WASD should work but sometimes unplugging your controller might help with the WASD controls being more responsive (idk why), but otherwise if you have time to file a bug report, that would also be greatly appreciated! https://forms.gle/pWqLcCTpdm3M7UEG8
But again, thank you so much for playing :D!!
Eee, ty so much for your reply! But yeah, I think it may have been my PC fighting to figure out the device it wanted to use, and it just defaulted to my controller. This happens sometimes with other games I play, like FFXIV or Warframe. But I'm so excited to see what you do with this game in the future!! <3
yes i've had that issue before too >-<;; kind of inconvenient but oh well! personally i prefer playing our game on controller anyway :P
also i got so excited responding initially that i forgot to comment on something you'd mentioned in your vid about Yun being a pre-existing OC, and yes you're right--he is an OC that i already have, but this is sort of like an AU for him, so he's called by his surname. in the Contacts menu he is still listed as Kaihan Yun which is also my main xiv acct's name LOL
thank you though, we want to release a full demo in the coming year, so please look forward to it :D!!