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Lucky Little Darlings

By emiliabea and chronically.in.dreams

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7613.4139
Fun9953.0139
Innovation9872.9038
Theme6153.6338
Graphics4013.9640
Audio5443.2739
Humor2743.5838
Mood3643.8037

Comments

soleyeer 2024-04-16 14:59

Interesting game! Pretty simple but with really adorable art ^^. Summoning gone wrong at 12 am

kseniya 2024-04-17 00:25

a very nice game with unusual gameplay, I really liked your creativity and approach, it's quite nice to look at such a visual! good luck with the development of your project!!

eric-nguyen 2024-04-17 00:29

I miss playing hidden object games. Loved the writing and the music. The vine boom sound effect made me laugh lol

bigtex 2024-04-17 00:38

very funny. wish the music had a bit more to it. really good art.

drainkid 2024-04-17 01:31

Really great looking art - the characters in the book are really cute, though it was hard to tell what I needed to look for based on the descriptions sometimes haha. Still really enjoyed it though, good job :)

xry 2024-04-17 01:47

Cozy wonderful vibes!! The world and story are great too!

andrew-michienzi 2024-04-17 02:43

Very cozy indeed! Once I understood what images to search for the game was super fun. Excellent art and very cute and funny story!

codeman1010 2024-04-17 04:18

I loved the hand drawn art style!

zhennaperks 2024-04-17 07:03

Love the art and the writing! What a fun concept! I only wish there was more to play. The hints were really well done. Thank you for sharing. <3

redoxeide 2024-04-17 07:17

Beautiful art and the story is very interesting too.

I think the object for the blue cat was a little hard to find.

Also, I love the way you presented the summoning bible. I thought the characters were about to go find an ancient book or something haha.

madelinef 2024-04-17 17:38

simple game but i enjoyed the beautiful drawing

weine 2024-04-17 18:17

Love the worldbuilding, storytelling and art! Maybe hidden item object games aren't for me, though

rita-pressanykey 2024-04-17 21:50

I love those characters in the magazine, so pretty design! I wish there will b fewer dialogs and more gameplay. Still, great job in participating!

velvetlobster 2024-04-17 22:12

lovely lovely chalk drawn characters

I love the choice of colors greenish purple and blue

the music has a very short loop and becomes a bit repetitive.

Gizmo-core got me laughing lol

the magazine is so rich and the personalities feel authentic

the music in that room you have to find the items is way better

oh no

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btw this took me a looong while to find

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Amazing experience I had a blast, the only thing that I would change is that background music, way too short of a sound loop

fyj 2024-04-18 03:40

I like the image of juniper and rata, very cute!

ategon 2024-04-18 23:11

Thanks for submitting your game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod of the stream (with a chapter for your game)

https://youtu.be/Foe4js2jhJ0

sheepolution 2024-04-19 02:13

I'm not really a visual novel type of guy, but I thought the drawings in the magazine were very cute, and I liked the minigame where you had to search for the items. The ending was also funny.

deformhead 2024-04-19 16:15

Wow, so much work on the UI, art and text/scenario, well done! :clap:

This "to be continued"... YES, I want to continue! :joy:

I'd love to see the next chapter! :wink:

kobato-games 2024-04-20 19:57

Nice game. Good luck on making the full version.

ogma-badparenting101 2024-04-20 21:59

I loved the drawings, the way they were colored in was so cute. I wish there was voices or talking sounds. It's an adorable theme and I love search games. YAY!

joeshanahan 2024-04-21 20:01

I haven't played a huge number of hidden object games, but the ones I have tended to hide objects in places they didn't belong, but blended in so you had to look carefully to find them. All of the objects in this game looked like they belonged, so it didn't feel much like "hidden object" so much as it did "click on all the objects and hope that some are interactable". I spent a while clicking on a mirror because I knew I needed one, only to find out I should've been clicking on a *different* mirror.

Outside of that though, this was a cute game which clearly had a lot of love put into it - which has a ton of personality to it :smile:

joeshanahan 2024-04-21 23:05

I uploaded my play through of this to YouTube, I hope it’s useful to you in some way! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdDdT1rQiVo

andriybyelikov 2024-04-23 15:33

Is summoning only three of the eight darlings the only ending or did I get the items wrong? Can you select other items? The graphics were cute and the game had a weird humor vibe. The music is repetitive with the same short motifs played in loop and I could hear the mouse click at the end of the loop of one of the songs. Uh, weird game with a bizarre vibe but I kinda liked it. Good job!

emiliabea 2024-04-25 04:28

@andriybyelikov We reaallllyy wanted to draw in all the darlings but you got the only ending we were able to draw. The idea was to have them all appear but in a crunch I decided to just do 3

kanity 2024-05-01 15:24

The look and atmosphere of the game is so unique! I love the huge green eyelashes +_+ And the skull in main menu. Overall the style is really cute&cool!

Random thoughts while I play: - I was confused why Dad is asking for rent xD - Loved looking through the journal with little darlings, and it looks soooo good - 1st little darling is literally our MC?? - the journal made me think damn that's really cute, because I made a "picture book" for my game (also wanted to make so you can look through it but didn't have time so it's just a single picture) and yours works sooo much better, taking notes x) - love the chaotic energy of the game x) - in hidden object part, would be nice to know what we are looking for, as whole BG looks the same so objects don't even stand out from the rest, some list or silhouettes would work - in perfect world objects also disappear once found - I ended up just clicking on diff objects mindlessly until got them all - I realized midway we are supposed to use the journal for reference (what little darlings want) so now that makes more sense but I still think object for finding should stand out somehow as it wasn't too clear - or maybe even make journal light up when finding objects scene comes up, and throw in a phrase that clarifies that a little (specifically when the mini game starts!) - aaand it seems I got to the end!! - now I am a bit sad I didn't realize the idea behind object finding right away, though ig it was implied through dialogue, it wasn't clear enough for me and I wasted that opportunity just clicking randomly ;_; - the sound when darlings appear was very horror-like, expecting horror continuation xD