Datesweeper

by tygrak
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.15
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50
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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.

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Comments17

Robber
Robber23 Apr 2018, 01:24
hahaha.. the best idea!
Elfcirynn23 Apr 2018, 01:37
The music and the graphics were fun, nice genre mix up!
Useless
Useless23 Apr 2018, 12:33
great idea for a genre combination! had a lot of fun with this! also, you can play as northernlion 10/10
Shoj9223 Apr 2018, 12:33
Really like the concept! With some polish I can see this being a fun little game to play.
tayl1r
tayl1r23 Apr 2018, 12:37
A butt pooping an egg is not the smooth talker one might expect!
Tygrak
Tygrakauthor23 Apr 2018, 12:42
@Useless Thank you! Hahaha, nice! I knew someone would recognize my inspiration!
Mathiouza
Mathiouza23 Apr 2018, 14:42
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)
DarkAnice23 Apr 2018, 15:03
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
Maybe it just me, but I totally ignored the dating part. For me, it was a minesweeper with hearts.
mrspeaker
mrspeaker23 Apr 2018, 18:22
Yeah, I loved the music - it was perfect. I learned somethin' about life too. What more could you want from an LD entry?
Lerg
Lerg24 Apr 2018, 10:59
Very cool! The butt is the best, and the music is like ice cream on my ears, heh.
Baby Dino Herd27 Apr 2018, 03:59
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
Ted Carter3 May 2018, 16:16
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
Zirrrus3 May 2018, 18:32
Oh...I'm absolutely terrible at minesweeper, apparently.

Still, the concept is fun and the game gets the idea across very well. Nice!
jshaffer942474 May 2018, 04:20
Funny combo. Yeah, it is kind of a minefield, isn't it?
zeu31
zeu317 May 2018, 18:39
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! =)

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