Doodle Date

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Name: Doodle Date
Status: Complete
Site: https://nicklives.itch.io/doodle-date
Rating: PG
Pairing: Any/Any
Description: A gimmick game where you draw your LI




A very short gimmick game, where you have to draw the characters that appear in the story. The story is short and thankfully you don't have to draw too many pictures, but it does make you draw about 4 or so emotions for your LI, which is difficult for someone with no artistic ability whatsoever, like yours truly. I don't think I've drawn anything in more than a decade at this point.

The plot of the game is straightforward. You're sucked into one of your notebooks by an old doodle and told you need to draw your dream date. You go on a couple pretty surreal dates with them, and are prompted on occasion to draw something in the plot (like a movie to watch for example). You fall in love, get married, have some problems with sexual compatibility, you know, just doodle things. The story is very short, just 45 minutes or so, of which about 20 of them was my struggling to draw, and it has a sort of quirky humor to it as all your doodles go meta and your doodle date angsts about being made for your desires and not being able to live for itself.

There's no way to save as far as I could see but your doodles do persist after a playthrough, so if you play again you don't have to redraw anything (though you can revise as much as you like.) That was a welcome discovery because I had screwed up my screenshots the first time around and wanted to save my scuffed Kim Kitsuragi (don't look at me) for posterity.
The game is entirely dependent on the attraction of its gimmick. If you like the idea of sketching your own LI, well, that's what this is. If you think it's more trouble than it's worth the story is like 10 minutes long so there's not much there.