Death & Romance
A stroll in the park with your best friend suddenly becomes a mission to save him. How? By getting him to confess his love before an attack of clumsiness gets him killed. Even Death is cheering for you!
Enjoy this short and humorous otome game where love hangs in the balance and Death is only a few steps away.
Features:
- 4 Endings (+2 extra hidden endings)
- 1 Clumsy but cute love interest
- Accidental Death
- Tons of blushing
- 1k words in all!
Death & Romance is a short game made for O2a2 (2022) game jam. I hope you enjoy this fun little adventure!
Credits:
Game Created by Vy Starlit
Death voiced by Jerron Bacat. You can find him at his website or twitter.
Music: Nowhere To Be, Nothing To Do by HoliznaCC0 from FMA.
Background by mugenjohncel.
Achievement GUI code by Angel Seraph.
Written by Vy Starlit
Art by Vy Starlit
Programmed by Vy Starlit
Download
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Development log
- First Jam, First GameJul 31, 2022
- Android Version is Up!Jul 29, 2022
- Android Version WIPJul 29, 2022
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Thank you so much! i'm really glad you enjoyed the game. I watched your video and it was truly fun watching you play.
Short but extremely cute. <3
HAHA i'm very happy to hear Jerome's voice again though it was a suprise to hear the voice actor of Xani Green from Heart Fragment (I love that game and I'm so hyped for the part three dlc to drop)
The animation of Adriel falling upside down was so funny LMAOOO
And I LOVE the dubbing of Death, such a good voice!
"if a hottie kissed me, I might kneel over too" I'M DEAD WITH DEATH
(spoiler)
Omg I was shocked when I saw that the secret ends were about Death, he blushing and us talking about dating him OMGGGG I LUV U REA (he's pure darkness but I love him lol)
I do adore Rea! I had so much fun creating him. Who knew Death was such a sweetheart. It makes me happy to hear that you enjoyed the humor and the voice acting. The VA did such an amazing job. Thank you so much for playing!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
i already married death in the sims 4
time to marry him here
I hope your marriage is a successful one. XD
🤍ALL ENDINGS🖤
AWESOME WORK KEEP IT UP! Looking forward for your next project <33Thank you so much! I'm so happy to see your let's play.
Death is so cute!!!!
Thank you! His ending was so fun to make.
how can i find games that are more traditional games (there seems to be a visual novel gamejam or something going on )?
This game is so adorable and funny ✨
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
🤍✨
This game is so amazing!!!! Adriel is so so so so adorable! I love his personality and design so much!! I absolutely love deaths voice and the premise of the game is so unique!! Death as a hopeless romantic basically watching a confession was an amazing concept and was excecuted so perfectly!! Absolutely amazing work on this!!! Adore this game to bits!!!!!
Update!!!:
Just got all the hidden endings and MY HEART!!! Death is so cute!!! Love the ending where we end up with him its adorable!!!! All the hidden endings are amazing!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I love the hidden endings so I'm so glad you found them. I'm so sorry I missed this comment before and it's such a great comment. Thank you so much for playing my game!
Oh my god this is so cute it's criminal!!! I love both Death and Adriel so much I'm crying, they're so precious and poor Adriel, I just wanna smother him with kisses and with Death, ooh lala time to charm him outta his robe! Er, shadows? Whatever, I'm charming him!! But seriously, it's so impressive that this is your first game and the lengths you went, not only with the multiple endings under that 1k words, a voice acting for Death whose voice matches so well, and the hardwork you put in there-- Amazing job! Seriously, you did great!!!
I love this comment! It makes me so happy to hear how much you enjoyed my little game. I definitely knew wen making the game I wanted multiple endings and a hidden ending. It's part of the feature I love about VN games are the ability to choose and finding secret endings. I was worried it wouldn't fit but I was like - focus only on dialogue and it should work. It was super fun!
Thank you so much!
I LOVE DEATH SM
Thank you! He's such a hopeless romantic.
Fun O2A2 game! Love the comedy and the multiple endings. It really shows your savviness with the romance VN genre: clumsy LI... to the extreme, and every player wanting to romance the side-character (Death in this case)! The transformations you apply to Adriel's sprite are really cute, like when he falls and gets upside down.
Thank you! I had so much fun doing the transitions. It made me laugh so I was hoping it would do the same for others. Thank you for the compliment! I wasn't sure how well I would do since it's my first VN, but it was tons of fun.
Pretty sweet, pretty soft story. I'll definitely try to get all endings - it's really impressive that you managed to get so many in under 1000 words, by the way. An amazing first game, can't wait to see more from you
Thank you! I really appreciate it. I was worried about getting so many endings in 1000 words but I ended up getting a little under by like 30 words. lol. It was definitely fun.
Overall really clean build, loved the features like achievement tracking. Very polished!
Story wise this was SO ADORABLE, I could not put it down until I got the endings. Love, love, loved it.
Thank you! I'm glad the build turned out good. I struggled with the GUI.
I'm so happy you liked the story! This makes my day to hear. I had so much fun making the story so I'm glad to see it is well loved.
I will be playing this live tomorrow 8/1 around 6:30-7 PM EST =D
https://www.twitch.tv/twallsx4
Awesome! I'll check in to watch.
Discovering all the endings was really fun. I'm impressed you managed to squeeze six endings into such a short game. I am also very weak to Death being a hopeless romantic
Thank you! Honestly I wanted to squeeze in one more ending but realized I just wouldn't have enough words for it. Death is such a sweetheart.
This was SO cute and it genuinely made me happy especially getting both of the secret ends. Thank you for making such a fun and really sweet game surrounding a pretty morbid trope, I loved every second of it! <3
I'm so glad it could bring you joy! My hope was to make people smile so it's nice to see that it succeeded. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
XD You got one of my favorite endings!
heyo!! this game is SO CUTE akflngansdkfjng
it was very fun getting all the achievements and Death was a lovely narrator! :D
also, the animation of adriel falling was so funny SKDJFGNSKDNG with his legs up to the sky, i admit that i laughed
also, the death's endings <33 so sweet
ty for this game
Thank you so much for playing! I'm so glad you found it fun. Heheh Yes, I adore that part. I giggles when making it too.
Death is definitely my fav in the game and the VA did such a great job with the narration. Thank you so much for the wonderful comment!
Oh my, so cute!!! Play by play commentary by death is pure genius. Love this so much
Thank you! Death was completely into the romance. XD He really wanted to see it play out.
Ahhh I enjoyed it hihi how cute
Thank you!
gosh, the premise of this game is so fun, i love it! thank you for this, it's so cute!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! <3
This was so cute and charming! Death over here being the best wingman haha. Love the ending achievements, story twists, and having a VA for Death? Beautiful! Also the text box being a scythe was such a nice touch! Well done!
Thank you! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed it and loved all the ending achievements. Death is the best. Thank you! I was wondering if anyone noticed the scythe text box. Glad you liked it.
This was fun!
On a tangent - when is a full-length game where you date Death coming out? Asking for a friend?
Now that would be a fun game. I actually have an image of how Death looks in mind. Maybe one day!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This game is adorable, and also hilarious (I feel bad for laughing, but man... there are some funny ways to go in this game). A really fun experience! You really made the short format work.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I was nervous about a short game but I ended up having a lot of fun with it.
Aw, this was so cute. I really liked Death's voice and it was fun trying to get the achievements. Great work with the limitations of the jam. :D
Thank you! I definitely had a lot of fun making the endings. I wanted to sneak in one more but it just wasn't enough words for it. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This game is so cute! I love how blushy Adriel is, and Death being a hopeless romantic!
Thank you! Adriel is such adorable boy. I live for his blushes. And yes! Death tried to play it off but he loves a good romance. He's a big softie.