Element: Date
Element: Date
English
The year: the 23rd century. The planet: somewhere in the Three Systems. The task: finding a suitable companion in this new dating app everyone keeps talking about.
Features
- 9 unique, charismatic, diverse-ish romantic interests to choose from, of many genders and from many planets!
- Dating all around the galaxy in a sci fi setting!
- Customizing the nondescript main character through the power of your imagination!
- Fully voiced narration and a handy optional mute button!
- 18 different endings!
- 0 tactical combat encounters!
Controls
The game is entirely touch/mouse based and we hope it’s easy to pick up for anyone with a passing knowledge of how dating apps work, but just in case:
- Tap on a character’s name or description to hear them out loud
- Tap on their profile pic or the blue “i” to get a bit more info about them
- Drag their pic left or tap ❌ to discard the selected character and move on to the next one
- Drag their pic right or tap 💚 to indicate you like them
- After liking a character, you can choose to meet them immediately or keep browsing new profiles
- After browsing all profiles, you’ll see a chat screen with the last message each liked character sent you
- Tap on a character to select or deselect them
- Press the button on the bottom of the screen to date the selected character
- After agreeing to date someone, tap on the main text to stop or resume voice narration
- Scroll down to read the date premise, then tap on a decision button to see how the date ends
Credits
- Writing and voices: David T. Marchand & Alli Smalley
- Initial Parody Idea: Alli Smalley
- Prepositions Assessment: Alli Smalley
- Art & Characters: Sixth Vowel’s Element: Space
- Everything else: David T. Marchand
- Fonts from Google Fonts: Varela Round & Pacifico
- Lots of sounds and music: YouTube Audio Library
- Icons from the Noun Project:
Hare Krishna, Dmitriy Ivanov, Gurkenkoenig, ATOM, Chameleon Design, Henry Ryder, Cassandra Cappello
The original game
Element: Space is a sci fi tactical squad RPG that the authors of Element: Date also wrote for. Here, have some videos:
And a link to Steam!
Castellano
El año: el siglo XIII. El planeta: algún lugar en los Tres Sistemas. La misión: encontrar un acompañante adecuado en esta nueva aplicación de citas de la que todo el mundo está hablando.
Contiene
- 9 intereses románticos únicos, carismáticos y más o menos diversos para elegir, ¡de muchos géneros y de muchos planetas!
- ¡Encuentros románticos todo alrededor de la galaxia en un ambiente de ciencia ficción!
- ¡Personalizar al personaje principal neutro ¡con el poder de tu imaginación!
- ¡Narración de voz completa y un conveniente botón opcional de silencio!
- ¡18 finales diferentes!
- ¡0 encuentros de combate táctico!
Controles
El juego se maneja todo con touch/mouse y esperamos que sea fácil de entender de inmediato para cualquiera con un conocimiento mínimo de cómo funcionan las apps de citas, pero por las dudas:
- Tocá el nombre o descripción de un personaje para escucharlos en voz alta
- Tocá su foto de perfil o la “i” azul para ver un poco más de información
- Arrastrá su foto a la izquierda o tocá ❌ para descartar el personaje seleccionado y ver al siguiente
- Arrastrá su foto a la derecha o tocá 💚 para indicar que te gusta
- Al indicar que te gusta un personaje, podés elegir conocerlo inmediatamente o seguir mirando perfiles nuevos
- Después de ver todos los perfiles, vas a ver una pantalla de chat con el último mensaje que te mandó cada personaje que te gustó
- Tocá a un personaje para seleccionarlo o des-seleccionarlo
- Tocá el botón al fondo de la pantalla para salir con el personaje seleccionado
- Al aceptar una cita con alguien, tocá el texto principal para frenar o reanudar la narración de voz
- Desplazate hacia abajo para leer la premisa de la cita, y luego tocá un botón de decisión para ver cómo termina la cita
Créditos
- Textos y voces: David T. Marchand & Alli Smalley
- Idea original de la parodia: Alli Smalley
- Evaluación de preposiciones (en inglés): Alli Smalley
- Arte & personajes: Element: Space (de Sixth Vowel)
- Todo lo demás: David T. Marchand
- Tipografías de Google Fonts: Varela Round & Pacifico
- Muchos sonidos y canciones: YouTube Audio Library
- Íconos de The Noun Project: Hare Krishna, Dmitriy Ivanov, Gurkenkoenig, ATOM, Chameleon Design, Henry Ryder, Cassandra Cappello
El juego original
Element: Space es un RPG táctico de ciencia ficción para el que los autores de Element: Date también escribieron. Acá, tomá un par de videos:
¡Y un enlace a Steam!
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I loved basically everyone's stories except Chris. Seriously, fuck this douche (no, not literally), but other than that it's a great game. :D
Cool and fun game, I loved it!!! Greetings from Brazil! :D
Thank you!
All I want is for Arthur to hug me and tell me encouraging things and say I have a strong character
Awww you absolutely do! And if Arthur weren't so disciplined about social distancing, I'm sure he'd be hugging you right now.
Bro, this is friggin cool! good job, great art. Wish it was longer, though! I want more!!
Thank you so much! We're considering some new projects in the same vein, but we can't promise anything.
Wow, this really is a cut above the usual smut itch.io offers in the romance section. Colour me impressed!
Historian <3
I am troubled by your username and thankful for your comment!
I am not entirely surprised, but I am pleased you can still take the compliment regardless :)
Anarcho-francoism, is like anarcho-falangism but with a free market economy, catholic social values and no anti-semitism.
Personally I am a great fan of Franco, and feel he is one the most defamed people in history: basically nothing that is taught about him nowadays holds up to scrutiny. The socialists were destroying the country and needed to be brought in-line. I wish we would get a new Franco that would lead Spain to exit the EU and become a great nation again.
Is too interesant, but it has a bug with the audio, sometimes the audio don´t play.
was that the sherlock bbc music during one of the dates?? because the timing of the music was seriously hilarious, it made me chuckle
anyways, awesome game with lots of character, and i personally rlly liked the narration
Thank you so much!
Argentina contra Alemania en 2014. Brillante.
I love the concept and a lot of the content is really funny and well written. I hope not to hurt any feelings when I say this, but... the narration is really bad. Really could have done without it; it takes away from the overall experience of the game. I found I had to mute altogether, which was a bummer because I really like the background music.
It won't load. Advice?
Strange! It loads just fine on my end. You could try a different browser, or a different device (going to davidtmarchand.itch.io/element-date on any laptop, tablet, or phone should load the game).
I love this game's humor! Props to you creator and the voice is pretty soothing <3
Aw thank you!
Hey developers you game is amazing I really loved the concept art, background music!! Mostly I enjoy it when narrative in this game was speaking!! Really cool game you guys made!! Keep up the good work and good luck your guys new upcoming project!! I recommend every one to check this game!! Check out my full review if you guys loved what i do subscribe to your boi and continue watching your boii. Thanks love a lot guys!!
Dude, thank you so much!
no problem brotha anytime
This is cute, it has lots of personality and got me interested in the universe. I was gonna say that there's not a lot of content but there's probably plenty in Element:Space.
Hey thanks! Yeah, the other game has tons of extra story. It's just more “fate of the galaxy” related.