Heartbeat Highschool
A downloadable game
Heartbeat Highschool is a solo journaling dating simulation roleplaying game. In Heartbeat Highschool, you play a 17 year old high school senior who has moved to a new American high school in a new town in the late 1990s. You have schoolwork, a part time job with flexible hours, and several dating partners who are vying for your attention. Can you find your one true love and graduate high school before the end of the year?
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- Manage your schoolwork and social life in a unique six-sided dice pool system.
- Sixteen potential dating partners with detailed biographies and ~secrets~
- Character design by areyoshi and Escher Cattle
- Beautiful anime character artwork by Demon Dionysus
- 90s vibe location art by Slyllama
- Full calendar planner for the 1997-1998 school year with holidays & school events (including minigames!)
- 60 page staple-bound 8.5" x 5.5" rulebook
- 100% Human Created Content!
At the beginning of a week, you'll roll a pool of d6s equal to your Health Stat. This is your Activity Pool. On normal weekdays, you can assign the dice in your Activity Pool to an Activity, such as studying, working out, going to work, or engaging in a hobby. On weekends or some holidays, you can do an Activity, make a phone call, or go on a date. When the dice in your pool are 6s, you can level up your stats, making you more attractive to potential Dating Partners.
When you go on dates, your assigned dice will become its own dice pool, which you then get to compare against your stats. If your rolls match your stats, the date goes well, and your Hearts with a Dating Partner increase. You're that much closer to true love!
Onslaught Six - Game & Character Design, Writing, Layout
Demon Dionysus - Lead Artist, Cover Art
areyoshi - Art Direction & Character Design
Escher Cattle - Additional Character Visual Design
Sarah Elkins - Additional Writing & Character Design
Slyllama - Location Artwork
J.M. Nemo - Copy Editing
Leon D. Richardson - Sensitivity
Paul Czege - Intro To Solo Roleplaying
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Is it like TokiMemo where you can only meet date partners on weekdays or can you meet them on weekends too? Also can you push for shopping or does it have to be a natural 6
You can still raise stats on weekends, so it's possible to meet new dating partners on the weekend if you spend a 6 and level up a stat. (I dunno, you met them at your job or something.)
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to Push on Shopping.
Gotcha! I wasn’t sure about the shopping thing as the rules don’t say anything about it. (I also wasn’t sure how it would work? How would you injure yourself shopping. Ig I’ll have to play to find out)
Another question: Could I send you my Log when I’m done? No reason I just wanted to know if that’s something you’d be interested in. My goal (currently) is to try to get most if not all the endings like I did with the original TokiMemo (I’ve been obsessed with the game recently so it’s nice to have something else to scratch that itch)
"Health" is not necessarily always physical health but also mental health! It can be very stressful trying to decide if you are going to spend that extra $10 or not...
Feel free to send us anything you like regarding play reports or journal entries! We love to see people playing the game.
Sorry, I promise this is last question, I just can’t find this answered anywhere in the book; what are the Max number of hearts you can get on a date. I believe it’s 7 but it’s not clear if one die can count towards multiple stats or not.
There is no maximum amount of Hearts you can earn on a date, but one die cannot count toward multiple stats. Once you "match" it to one of your stats, it's used and cannot count towards another stat.
Sorry could I get some clarification on these two paragraphs:
> If you arrive on a date with no dice left in your Activity Pool, you may add one die to the Dating Pool. You can still Push to add more dice to the Dating Pool.
ok I sorta get it. If you don’t have enough energy the game is nice and will give you a freebie. But I don’t understand how you can Push? If you don’t have any dice there’s nothing to add? Can you gain dice in the middle of the date
Edit: NVM I read the rules wrong!
> Want the date to remain platonic, or just need to let a Dating Partner down gently? Each of the above steps are optional. You may decide not to assign any of your Results Dice from your initial weekly Activity Pool, or not assign any of the Results Dice to a matching Stat.
Again I sorta get it. You can choose not to add more hearts if you’re not Trying to make things difficult. I don’t understand that firsts bit though. Does this mean that you can go on a date with no assigned dice and just use the freebie the game gives you? Or does this mean something else
Edit: NVM I get it now. It means you don’t need to assign a die.
Hello,
I recently purchased “Heart Beat High School”, the standard edition, at the Pittsburgh Indie Expo, and was told to email you for the digital copy. I don’t have the business card anymore, but I was able to find You here. I’m very excited to play this game!
Hey! Send me an email at onslaughtsix@gmail.com and I can hook you up.