to the HeIghTs oF MY HEART
Welcome to Smiles Incorporated, the only business in this city that is willing to hire you. Your new occupation demands you spend most of your waking hours processing my extensive paperwork, the purpose this serves will not be explained.
You will be paid the approximate amount required to keep you alive, be grateful. You are not encouraged to fraternize with other employees, be responsible. Your opinion does not matter, be quiet.
You may take a brief moment to appreciate the opportunity for survival that your generous new boss has afforded you.
Now wake up.
Use the arrow keys to guide her.
Use the C key to make her touch anything.
Use the X key to make her xamine anything.
Use the Z key to make her look at the photograph.
Press any key to advance conversations and viewings.
Contains potentially disturbing, graphic and upsetting content.
If you enjoy this experience then please consider rating or recommending it, as well as leaving some feedback.
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- to the HeIghTs oF MY HEART : ReViledJan 04, 2024
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Okay, I cannot figure out how you're supposed to get past the tight path between the two lines of people after you talk to Mio. It's incredibly frustrating to have such a tense narrative, only to spend half an hour trying to figure out what this game wants me to do. This makes this game incredibly frustrating and damages any immersion it previously had, which is unfortunate, because I quite liked what I saw up to this point.
You pass that section by walking straight through, there is just barely enough time to do so. It has worked during our testing and we have never heard of this issue before.
If that is what you were doing, then it is likely that the browser or specs of your computer are having an unintended influence on the game engine; this usually occurs because of the frame rate.
How far were you able to walk straight through before being stopped.
Usually about two people, which is nowhere near close to enough time to get through.
If that is the case then either the build up mechanic or the main character's movement speed are extremely out of sync with what is intended unfortunately. Perhaps you are running the game on an unusually fast or slow machine.
Changing the game resolution, using a different browser or switching to the other game version may resolve this kind of issue for all of our games. They usually run at 60 FPS during testing, this should be the ideal frame rate for them to work as intended.
We have updated the game with a potential fix to the issue you encountered, if the issue was related to the build up mechanic being too fast.
As we cannot test its efficacy on our own system, we would greatly appreciate it if you replayed the game under the exact same conditions as before to determine the result for us.
Thank you, I'll be sure to let you know how it goes when I do so!
this hurt.
i have nothing to say, this made me cry
Even though I'm within the trans umbrella(genderfluid), I don't personally experience abuse regarding my identity (most likely because I'm not very public about it irl). However, I used to experience harrassement based on my body anyway (mild physical , s*xual verbal, then verbal fat-shaming). I only no longer experience that because I've mentally broke and I'm currently a shut-in, trying to piece myself back together. That piece of background being said, this game's protrayal of emotions was PAINFULLy accurate, in a good way. The visual represenation with the red-tint and the square was so impactful and resonated so much.
As a game maker, you have SO MUCH potential, and you are very underrated. However, one thing that I've noticed in your games, is that they are a bit difficult to progress. One reason being that, there is no indication between the black cutscene/scene change, and the actual ending. Another reason being, (not in this but some of your other games), It can be a bit difficult to understand what to do. Some hints, maybe after a while, would be helpful.
HOLY CRAP
theres something super eerie and unsettling about all of the smiling coworkers hurling disgusting abuse at you, its honestly more scarier than when they start frowning.
this is fucking messed up...
The tags say the game has multiple endings, but I only found one.
this game is so lovely and intense. I really don't have any words, its just so good.
As a trans person (tho I'm female to male) this is heartbreaking, and I hate that this is the reality that we live in.... I really felt for Jamie, I can't comprehend the thought process of transphobes...
personally, i'm not a transgender person...vbut man does this hurt. i wish i could give all the trans homies a hug.
a wonderful game to make you feel the worst of things! but fr amazing game, i just wish it didn't seem so realistic, like i had to google to make sure this wasnt based off a real event
Me and the homies at work :') I didn't know this was about transphobia and I was like "Oh this hits so close to home" Really good game and related way too much to it...
I feel so bad... One, this game is beautiful and heart-wrenching. Two, I wanted to know what happened when Jamie died because I'm apparently a sadistic a-hole, and then I killed her over and over until I couldn't pick the paper up anymore. I feel dirty for doing it... But I love Jamie, she's awesome, and I wish she didn't die a million times. Not just in this game, I mean I wish that she didn't die in Smiles Incorporated and in this game, and probably in WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGHS. She is amazing as a character, and I hated torturing her.
this made me cry. Great Game
this hits so hard !! it makes me so mad bc i know these exact same experiences do still happen to people in this day and age. thank you for making this game and depicting a realistic simulation, hopefully someone out there will think twice before alienating others to boost their fragile egos
great game!
this game made me soooo mad
oh ok
ummm does this just end after sacrise gos to the boss or is there more
That is the end yes.
wow this is just so meloncoly sweet i cried
Wow.....that was intense.
I like your cover illustration. It's a concept I've seen before but taken a very different spin.
This is a powerful story, but it is also an incredibly intense game -- I think it could definitely use more specific content warnings than it has for anti-trans harassment and violence, as well as for its very vivid depiction of anxiety.
I think this is an excellent narrative on LGBTQIA+ discrimination in the workplace. I can't wait to see more of your work.
This was such a powerful game with a very important message. The art style was simple and fit perfectly to this theme. One thing I noticed while playing was that when you talked to people, it took a really long time for the message to pop up and then you had to wait for quite a while until it disappeared. Maybe one way to do this would be to change so that the player could press on, for example, enter so they could decide how fast they wanted to read through the conversations? :)
Other than that I really enjoyed this game, keep up the good work! :D
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