Run for it Beloved!
A downloadable game
This is a light hearted game inspired heavily by slice-of-life shoujo manga vibes for 2-5 players. Yes the title is a play on the manga title “Go for it Nakamura!”
Content warnings for this game include unrequited feelings - romantic or otherwise. As part of the premise, feelings the players have for the titular Beloved will never be reciprocated or fulfilled. Instead, your characters are encouraged to form close bonds with each other through play.
While the game itself is very light hearted and silly in nature, I still highly reccomend using safety tools at your table anyway. Please do discuss the use of romance and other forms of love in play, discuss how heavily you want to lean into the unrequited feelings aspect of the game, and of course, discuss any tropes or settings you feel uncomfortable with. For specific safety tools, I recommend using Lines and Veils but you can use whatever tools your table is comfortable with.
Written for the Val Dares You game jam Happy Birthday Val, and hope you stay winning!
Additional credit to my friend Mango for giving me the idea and helping me through the writing blocks that plagued me through writing it
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Using dialogue prompts with the rivals and just describing the tragic and cringefail ways that the beloved ditches you... Your mind.
Your aura.
I adore this game and I want to play it!!
Haven't gotten a chance to play yet but definitely adding this one to my list! I love seeing games explicitly name that love doesn't always have to be romantic!! More of that in TTRPGs (and everywhere) please!!!
I also love the way the game is set up where the "scenes" with beloved are meant to be super short, whereas what actually gets played out is the scenes with your rivals. I feel like that's a really great way to highlight what's important in the story you're telling and I'm interested to see how it goes in play.