Play on Game Boy or browser (desktop/phone):
~ https://meadowdrone.itch.io/the-heart-of-arel ~
Eionn (she/they), Aoba (she), Eryr (they) and Harthe (she)
It's a radically soft, short game about four partners travelling to stop a deadly natural threat. Cook, cuddle, flirt and encourage each other to overcome the miasma, and explore both the lands, and each other's feelings on the way.
As an beginner at game development I wanted to challenge myself to make something competely my own, an uncompromising look into where I've been at in my life recently, and something of my own visual and sonic style, and embrace the imperfections that come from it. I wanted to make a really small, 5-minute long thing as a newbie game dev, but as I fleshed out these characters I enjoyed them too much to have their adventure end prematurely and I really enjoyed how creatively fulfilling it ended up being.
It's probably about 60-70 minutes long, is mechanically light with no reliance on reaction speeds or precise/multi-button inputs, with a focus on area exporation and the characters' relationships.
All money earned from this game will go to fundraising Dandelion, a Bristol (UK) based harm reduction information centre and needle exchange for trans+ people self-medicating their HRT. Thank you so much!
