Mogar's Quest: Heart of the Magical Girls |Mac/Windows/Linux

[peahat]

Mogar's Quest: Heart of the Magical Girls!

Description: Mogar, a cute animal sidekick, is tasked with assembling a team of Magical Girls to protect the world. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to convince a normal high schooler to be a Magical Girl!

Play as Mogar and convince three reluctant girls to unlock their magic potential!

This game was made in under two months for the Magical Girl Jam (http://magicalgirljam.tumblr.com). I thought it would be fun to model my entry as a dating sim. Instead of trying to date cute boys/girls, you are a cute animal sidekick trying to convince girls to join you. <:

Features:
-Three different girls, each with their own reason not to join
-Five expressions for each girl
-Seven backgrounds
-Completely free!

DOWNLOAD LINKS:
Mac: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhjzw5vzrnn8c ... .0-mac.zip
Windows: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7qsk40q4y3lc ... .0-win.zip
Linux: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o3y63v05mrl4b ... ux.tar.bz2

TUMBLR:
http://heartofthemagicalgirls.tumblr.com

Rough and rowdy

Bubbly over-achiever

Mysterious transfer student

hop u liek!

[Hazel-Bun]

Glad to see you finished! This is your stalker *cough* follower on tumblr wishing you the best!

[peahat]

Ahh, thank you so much!!

[rainaria]

My gosh, this was so fun to play with! The characters are so adorable and awesome - especially Lorna. Keep making these games, cause this was honestly the best ten minutes of my day, haha.

[peahat]

Oh man, thank you so much for playing!! I really appreciate that!

AAAA I'm glad you liked it <: I'll keep making games! I'm still thinking of my next project, hehe

Thanks again

[Haze]

Wow, this was a nice little game. The way you designed it to be a little like a dating sim was nice, and the story flowed together well. I thought it would be "go to random school, get girl, repeat", but I was quite wrong. Since all the girls go to the same school, they interacted with each other, and that made the story quite enjoyable.

The only thing about the story that I didn't like is that, after the Hope Detector breaks, the one girl Candace mentions happens to be the right one. The odds of that are very, very slim; if the school has 1000 students, the odds are 1:998(1000-2 girls Mogar already found); if it has 250 students, the odds are 1:248...I found this part a little hard to believe.

Also, the way that the sprites stretched across the whole screen, meaning only one could be shown at a time, was a little weird.

Of course,these little issues can probably be explained by time constraints, so it's ok. Overall, good job!

[Flowers from Nowhere]

This game was adorable. I loved how the characters interacted with and knew about each other. The story is well laid out, pacing is good, and the end made me happy.

My only complaint (if it can be called that) is that there wasn't any music.

[peahat]

AAHH thank you so much for playing! And thanks for all the great feedback.

The only thing about the story that I didn't like is that, after the Hope Detector breaks, the one girl Candace mentions happens to be the right one. The odds of that are very, very slim; if the school has 1000 students, the odds are 1:998(1000-2 girls Mogar already found); if it has 250 students, the odds are 1:248...I found this part a little hard to believe.

Also, the way that the sprites stretched across the whole screen, meaning only one could be shown at a time, was a little weird.

Of course,these little issues can probably be explained by time constraints, so it's ok. Overall, good job!

Thanks so much for the feedback!

You know, it never actually occurred to me that that might be a problem :0 I mean, it is definitely unlikely in real life, but I had hoped make a story that was rife with lots of tongue-in-cheek anime/magical girl tropes and obviously not real life. For example, it's even less statistically likely that the three saviors of the planet are in the same country, much less the same SCHOOL. And Lorna and Candace both immediately know what magical girls are and have no trouble accepting that magic exists. I actually thought the furthest stretch in the game would be that a high schooler would be able to fix/alter a piece of alien or heavenly technology in an afternoon (even if she is the smartest kid in school). Given those liberties, I figured the Beautiful and Mysterious Transfer Student would be the obvious candidate for the last Magical Girl.

Of course, if I have to explain myself as a creator, I've already lost! If I were ever to revise the game, I might consider making the tropes come through a little more.

Re sprites: I am showing my n00b here, but it actually didn't occur to me to make sprites that could fit on the screen together 9___6 I haven't played many VNs besides Ace Attorney. That woulda been pretty useful, especially in the last chapter!

This game was adorable. I loved how the characters interacted with and knew about each other. The story is well laid out, pacing is good, and the end made me happy.

My only complaint (if it can be called that) is that there wasn't any music.

I'm with you on that music thing ): I'm definitely going to mess around with music and sound effects for my next game. Thanks for the feedback!

[LofnBard]

Fun game! I love how it turned around the trope as the animal companion, and the unlikely choice of candidates.
What I actually found difficult to believe in the story is that those three would have the highest amount of hope. They're all pretty self-absorbed. Perhaps potential for hope, or some other virtue would have made more sense. Anyway, thanks!