First Person Sweetheart!
A visual novel developed by Team Sweethearts (Ashley Dai, Gabriel Byrd, Jude Denning, Rafael Queiroz) for the Winter 2024 UChicago Game Jam. This short and sweet game follows a gamer during a long day away from their long-distance partner. It features three minigames, one cutscene, and four unique endings (one good, one neutral, and two bad).
First Person Sweetheart! won second place in the Winter 2024 UChicago Game Jam, earning a prize of $1000.
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This game is only playable on PC. It is available for Windows, Apple, and Linux systems.
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This game requires a mouse and keyboard to play. Most of the game follows a standard point-and-click format, but there is a rhythm game portion that uses the arrow keys.
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This game was developed over the course of 72 hours for the Winter 2024 UChicago Game Jam. Team Sweethearts was a randomly assigned group of four UChicago undergraduates. The theme for the jam was “X within an X”, e.g. story within a story. See the description on our itch.io page for more details about how we approached this prompt.
Contributions
FPS! was a highly collaborative effort from start to finish, so everyone did a little bit of everything. I primarily worked on the script and visuals of FPS!, including plotting the core story beats and writing a significant portion of the dialogue. Thanks to my previous knowledge of Ren’py, I was also able to assist with programming and craft two of the minigames.
Designed the look and feel of the “Two Weeks” and “Avoidant” minigames. Programmed the clickable enemies based on existing code from the Lemma Soft Forums.
Art contributions included the title screen, logo, and “Two Weeks” scene.
bedroom background & title screen image
"Two Weeks" minigame background