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Pico's Date

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Hey, you.

Yeah, you.

I don't know what kind of bullshittery you had to pull but you're going on a date with Pico, the poster boy of Newgrounds. Aren't you a lucky bastard?

Anyways, don't screw it up. Good luck.


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TRYING TO PLAY ON MOBILE????

You'll need to request for a desktop site on your browser! It may not be perfect, but it'll run! :D


Dear LORD did this take me a hot minute to do. So far this is not only the biggest project that I have ever worked on, but it's also my first game! Please feel free to tell me of any bugs or any issues that you may find with this, as well as any criticisms to improve. It would help a lot. Keep in mind, that this was a challenge to myself where I made a game in 1 year. (On and off work so I don't burn out of course.) I did all of the coding and art, plus just a teeny tiny bit of music. I know it's not a super long game, but there are about 12(?) endings so there's some content to chew on.


I just wanted to make a Pico dating sim that was to my liking, and in general a little more of an unconventional take on the dating sim genre. If you ask me, this is a Pico game first and a dating sim second. It's meant to be stupid and edgy. And a huge shout out to UNCLEREGZ! Without his help, I'd have to struggle to learn music on top of all the other things I had to do while making this beast.


Anyways, I won't stay to bore you with my ramblings. Happy Pico Day!!


Oh and one more thing- I couldn't get the custom load screen to work for the life of me. I give up. Here's what it was supposed to look like while it loads the game files :']

iu_1190979_9893819.webp

(This game has given me a lot of issues towards the end. I'm stopping before I go crazy)

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SOME HELP CAME FROM PIXABAY


SOUNDS


Load Gun sound effect 5 by beetpro

Realistic shot by Pixabay

button 8 by Pixabay

Fire Sound Efftect by MaxHammarbäck

Short-Fireball-Whoosh by Pixabay

police by Pixabay

CarEngine by Pixabay


IMAGES

Rasin

Gun


If there's any issue with using Pixabay as a resource, please contact me so I can change things accordingly. The NG Wiki for finding royalty free music and sounds sadly hasn't helped too much in the past since I want to make free content for free. Thank you!


EDIT (5/1/2024): I woke up to seeing this in daily 3rd place! I wanted to give a huge thank you to everyone who have given their support to this cruddy game! It really has me floored thinking that my content would even come this close to being front paged! Mushy feelings aside, I've fixed a few sprites that didn't properly save as transparent PNGs. If you catch any other bugs, please let me know so I can patch the game or fix it in a future installment. I'd be glad to receive the feedback. Also, if any sprites pixelate then it's probably due to asset lag. Pico has a lot of moving parts for a visual novel so it might be that the game engine isn't used to it. All in all, thanks again! Here's to a good Pico day this May 18th as well!!!


Edit (5/18/2024): I got back to my hotel room after walking around a convention as Cass all day to see that the game was frontpaged?! This is the first time that this has happened with my content and I genuinely didn’t expect anything more than the daily third place. I plan to strive to make a few more games like this for the future. Happy Pico Day everyone! ;w;

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thats the greatest dating game i ever seen

Hattsoff responds:

Thanks! I really like the part where you date him :3

As someone who has had an unholy love for dating sims and visual novels since childhood (thanks Hatoful Boyfriend for dragging me to hell), I spent the entire game laughing my ass off. I instantly fell in love the moment I got left for not liking mac & cheese. I always appreciate a good satirical/comedic take on the dating sim genre, and you pulled it off beautifully in my opinion. Keep doing what you're doing, friend.

Hattsoff responds:

I never thought I'd hear the title Hatoful Boyfriend again! What a flashback to a great game! I really feel that there weren't enough games that sort of made fun of the player and the other characters so I got sick of waiting someone else to do it. I'm glad to hear reviews like yours and I hope you look forward to the next game that I have coming! <3

Truly a rollercoaster of emotions, making so many parts WAY too unexpected is such a plus! I think I managed to get all the endings! I absolutely loved the one that ends up with "I'm not interested" though apparently my true ending is the cruddy ending LMAO, the issue with this game might be the low contrast with the text and the background colour chosen for the already mentioned... If you're asking me, I had a few rough times trying to figure out some parts of the text making the gameplay a little bit tedious, but that's my only complaint! AND btw... If we get a more future games from you, collaborations on the art would be amazing, me thinks, Wink wink!... The "A ginger walks into a bar" track was so catchy! Props to the musician for that!!! I gotta say, the Frontpage was absolutely deserved! I can't wait to see more of your games later on! A now personal favourite!!! 👏👏👏

Hattsoff responds:

Thank you my guy! I saw some of the screen shots that you shared with me! I'm not sure what caused it, but the text box background seemed to be broken for you. It's supposed to look more like the classic speech bubble from the game! If you're playing on phone or some other kind of mobile device then it must still have a few kinks that haven't been cobbled out. I'll see if there's any way that I can at least make the text more readable for you guys in the future!

All in all, thanks again! I'll def keep you in mind if I need any art help for an ending or two! <3

love it!! The music fits and I love the silly interaction :D

Hattsoff responds:

Awe thank you! Music was done by my buddy Regz. Hope that you had a blast with the game! <3

i played this game again cuz i love pico sm

i really REALLY enjoyed this!1!1 istg i got excited and nervous tehehe :333

Hattsoff responds:

So glad to hear it! Second game is in development hell as we speak! It’s going to be a long while before it’s done tho! ;0;

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