Heartstrings: A Pocket Life

About

"Heartstrings: A Pocket Life" is a tamagotchi-like game that sits on your desktop, and you have to take care of "Her".

How to play

"Her" has multiple needs that are shown as icons on the right side of the screen. as Her roams around they'll decrease over time and based on Her mood and activities. You have to take care of Her in order to make and keep Her as happy as possibile, making Her engage in different actions in order to meet Her needs by clicking on the relative need icon. You can also pat Her to increse the "Love" meter.

Her can enter various moods depending on Her actions and status, interacting in many ways with her surroundings.

• Normal: Her can't wait to do something, roaming around doing her favourite pastime.
• Creative: a surge of energy fills Her that is eager to do proactive activities.
• Cozy: tired and happy, Her snuggles in a comfy blanket, perfect for couch and bed activities.
• Sad: you may have failed Her, ignoring her requests for cuddles or breaking Her moods one time too many. Her now needs you more than ever.

If Her love falls to zero Her will feel destroyed and will need TONS of cuddles to stand up again.

N.B.: Pats and cuddles are always accepted and needed.

Controls

- Click on status icons (utensils, palette & bolt) in order to make Her do corresponding actions
- Click and drag on Her to pats and cuddles (could be usefull for the crying phase)

Post-Jam Edition Changelog

I collected of the feedbacks around the jam and put almost all of them in this post-jam version:

- Improved UI & UX
- Changed the sofa color and the forniture arrangement on the room
- Now you can choose a different name for Her
- Now you set a different main window size: Small, Medium & Large
- There's a new window called "Counter" that indicates how much in-game time you passed without make Her cry
- When Her go to sleep the lights turn off, the energy bill were too expensive
- Changed the music with something more chill (still a loop but i hope is better than before) 
- Changed the mood change audio, now is only just like a notification sound to inform you that something happen
- If you close the game now you don't lost all your progress, save tech discovered!
- Moved the action buttons from the status bars to bottom buttons with a stop action button also :D
- Improved the "How To Play" view by highlighting the important things
- Added Harry Otter on the sofa

Credits

- Samuele Padalino:  Code, Game Design, 3D Art, Music, SFX, VFX, UI, UX
- NesiraFortune: Game Design
- FontAwesome: Icons