Heartful Decisions is a game about a heart which fights off viruses and bacteria to protect the body. Some are good, some are bad, you don't know! Play and learn which ones benefit you, which are not worth fighting and which are to be avoided! Memorise the different bacteria and viruses and do better and better!
It could be a great educational game: you must play several times to learn whick agents are healty and which are not. Second game I reach 17 years old ^^ (I had some lucky deciding).
I love all the detail in the different viruses & bacteria, but the core mechanic is hard to understand. Do I slam into them by clicking towards them or do I click the opposite direction and then come back? Also living negative amounts of years is kinda dumb :)
@diesdas Thanks for playing! You slam them by doing any movement really, either by going towards them or on your way back, if you hit them while moving they are gone. And i agree that living negative years is dumb! I believe it is supposed to say that you are not even born then! :laughing:
Hi! I like the idea of the game, though I must admit I didn't understand what I had to do on my first try. It wasn't really, especially duo to the fact that it is slooooow as hell, and it felt like the death was pretty random. But, it really isn't far from being a pretty cool game, just need some more balance and feedbacks! Good job :)
I enjoyed playing it. (More than playing my own :P) Great "enemy design". And I laughed a lot when it told me that I lived for -8 years and haven't even lived, therefore I should try again. :D
It seems that ambient is a litle bit too quiet. And it's strange that you have made that difference in loudness of the sounds and music. Also as far as I know the heartbeat sounds in different way. Your sound is a litle bit too clock ticking, not heartbeating.
Also I want to say that game is not equal on different runs: sometimes I can live for 78 years withoutfighting at all, sometimes during first minutes of playing it's hard to stay alive first minutes because of two or more cancers comming from diiferent dirrections. Maybe a litle bit balance and your game will be one of the most lovely this jam.
And again as for me I did not like the background. It seems too deformed. It scaries me a bit.
@mironx Hey there! I must say that audio management is not one of my strongest parts and you are right that the heart sounds a bit weird, i tried to do all the sounds by myself and as you see it is far from perfect.
And you are right! The game is completely random, but hey, that is a feature *wink* , cause as we all know, every human is different and thus every situation will be different, equal or not. Though i did think of balancing, i had no time to implement that.
And the inside... well... i did go for a more "realistic" look.
Thanks for playing and i really appreciate the feedback!
I like the environment you created here and the various virus models must have taken a good bit of time. Nice work on that. The controls were pretty easy to figure out. I think some additional feedback on whether you're making the right decision on things could be useful. It felt pretty random and I wasn't sure if I was making good decisions or not. Some nice ambient sounds or music would've enhanced the experience a lot. Overall, I think this is a good entry. I managed to live 17 years!
interesting concept, first time i lived just 8 years, second time over 70. but while playing it the first time it often had negative years. Very cool graphic style. the text at the beginning could be displayed longer. But gets quickly boring:(
Very cool idea :smiley: I imagine, playing this on a phone would be fun. Also liked the bacteria design. i found it hard to distinquish between which effects were good and which were bad
@philipprapp95 Thanks for the feedback! I thought that the text staying longer would be annoying as people were going to play again and read it fully anyways but you and others seem to be on the same page about that, very useful for me!
@ryupold Thanks for playing! I thought that it would be the simplest to show by the effect of it on your heart, if it turned darker, its bad, else its good or neutral. And by the way, you can actually run it on a phone surprisingly and if the browser of the phone doesnt crash for some reason as it did for me (not my friends tho), you can play it on mobile, and thats totally intended!
Nice game, it is difficult to remember all viruses. You can do something about the balancing. In one run, i stayed still and did nothing and lived for 95 years. In another run i lived for -20 years.
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But, it really isn't far from being a pretty cool game, just need some more balance and feedbacks! Good job :)
Very cool concept, and a creative title. My ocd forces me to attack all spikey ones though. :D
I couldn't see the 3d elements in Chrome Version 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit). It worked for me in FireFox.
I think the bacteria slowing down when they get close is kinda annoying, they should move faster.
Overall nice game ;)
Also I want to say that game is not equal on different runs: sometimes I can live for 78 years withoutfighting at all, sometimes during first minutes of playing it's hard to stay alive first minutes because of two or more cancers comming from diiferent dirrections. Maybe a litle bit balance and your game will be one of the most lovely this jam.
And again as for me I did not like the background. It seems too deformed. It scaries me a bit.
And you are right! The game is completely random, but hey, that is a feature *wink* , cause as we all know, every human is different and thus every situation will be different, equal or not. Though i did think of balancing, i had no time to implement that.
And the inside... well... i did go for a more "realistic" look.
Thanks for playing and i really appreciate the feedback!
55 years without clicking anything, 17 when I tried to fight.
Also liked the bacteria design. i found it hard to distinquish between which effects were good and which were bad
@ryupold Thanks for playing! I thought that it would be the simplest to show by the effect of it on your heart, if it turned darker, its bad, else its good or neutral. And by the way, you can actually run it on a phone surprisingly and if the browser of the phone doesnt crash for some reason as it did for me (not my friends tho), you can play it on mobile, and thats totally intended!