Highlights by Emiliabea
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Highlights is a visual novel about a young adult who had a falling out with many loved ones due to depression. In the game, you decide what key points to bring up in a conversation in hopes of mending different relationships.
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I didn't dedicate as much time to this submission as my first one because finals are this week haha. I hope you enjoy this short little game. Anyway, I'm happy I got to participate in Ludum Dare because I didn't think I would up until the night it started. I just tried to have fun with it and felt like I actually planned it out well. I took a lot of feedback from the last jam and tried not to have those problems here.
| Youtube | https://emiliabh.itch.io/highlights |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/highlights |
Ratings
| Overall | 946th | 3.6⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2049th | 2.889⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 937th | 3.425⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 218th | 4.175⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 647th | 4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 1185th | 3.083⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 229th | 4.026⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 11🗨️ |
Some things can be a bit cleaner, some typos and text going past the boundaries of the boxes they are in. I do like this subject material and think you did a fine job with this!
Graphics were nice and together with the music did a great job setting the mood for quite an emotional experience.
Great work, and good luck with those finals! :)
As was not living this person life, having the background and history, as well as not knowing the personalities of the characters you can meet, it can be difficult to assess what happened so what the "best" options are, in the sense of "getting things off your chest" as per the instructions. That said, by going through the story and seeing the reactions I can start to get an understanding of what happened in the past and I start to learn about what happened. So I think it depends very much on the authors intent here, whether it's meant to be a voyage of discovery of the main characters life and actions or a look at how to resolve coming out of a depression/anxiety and handling it. If this was cleared up then I think this could become a much more refined story.
I enjoyed playing it and I think with some additional polish it could serve as a valuable game for some.
I am so very glad to have played. Thank you for making this wonderful little thing.