#kissoff

Get those kissy lips ready to go! Intergalactic dating game Kiss/OFF releases 3/31/2024 🐙 Check out our new music video!

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"Can't Get Enough of Your Heart"

Vocals by Michael Kovach as Xargazorg With Kelsey Jaffer as Steffi

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We’re Shark and Pelican Games, a teeny-tiny game studio specializing in ridiculous games with off-the-wall concepts and sexy, stupid hooks. We’re made of two people, Alex M. Lee (artist - @mypurplesummer) and Ethan Ness (writer/composer), who started making games during the pandemic and found it impossible to stop. (Our cat/HR manager Dr. Pepper is also part of the team, but he sleeps through most of his working hours.) We love visual novels, tabletop RPGs, and indie games of all kinds! We’d love to connect with more folks on this platform.

🎻 Our first game, BARD HARDER! was released in December 2020. It’s a short, tabletop-inspired visual novel game about saving your friends from the Big Bad Evil Guy by using your strongest weapon: romance! You might have seen it as part of the itch.io Bundle for Ukraine. If you’ve played it, please share your thoughts with us!

🐙 We’re currently working on Kiss/OFF, set to release in Summer 2023. Kiss/OFF is an action-packed visual novel game about a bizarre intergalactic dating show. We also have a free playable prologue called Kiss/OFF: AUDITION that you can download through Steam or itch.io, so that you can meet the world and some of the characters! If this sounds interesting to you, please drop us a wishlist - it really helps a lot.

We’ll be posting more about these projects in the coming days. Looking forward to sharing more! 💜

Kiss/OFF: AUDITION is a free playable prologue for Kiss/OFF. Meet Steffi, Arturo, and Risq, the three main alien love interests of Kiss/OFF, and get a peek of the protagonist’s life before the game begins!

It's a big, big day for Vic Powers, college track star and all-around charmer. His crush is coming over for a study session, and he's working up the courage to ask them out! Then, the phone rings. "Convince your crush to go out with you...or you'll never see them again." Now, it's up to Vic to flirt for his life with three unique love interests, flirting (or failing) his way towards the climactic showdown with 'X.' Let the Audition...begin!

♥ FEATURES ♥

Three unique love interests, each one more damaged than the last

Dozens of unique endings, based on how well (or terribly) Vic flirts

Family friendly fun with tentacles

An original soundtrack with half a dozen sick beats

One very special secret true ending

A price tag of $0 and 0 cents

Have you ever wanted to be on a dating show? ...With aliens? ...Hosted by an over-excitable octopus obsessed with True Love?

Our newest game in development is called Kiss/OFF: an action-packed visual novel game about a bizarre intergalactic dating show. Six Contestants have been Involuntarily Volunteered™ to pair off and SQUARE off in a supercharged dating royale. Whichever couple has the most passionate, *magical* kiss at the end of the three days wins the Ultimate Prize: They get to go back home to their families! The losing team gets the Ultimate Second Place Prize: Horrible, fiery death!

♥ MEET VIC ♥ In Kiss/OFF, you play as Vic Powers: college track star, chill dude, and pansexual king. When he gets abducted onto the set of Kiss/OFF, he suddenly has a lot more to worry about than declaring his major. Now, he’s got to kiss a hottie, win the dating game, and find some way back to Earth!

♥ DATE OR HATE?! ♥ Unlock over a dozen unique endings based on whether your Kiss/OFF partner LOVES or HATES Vic. Go for true, perfect romance, or try to drive your partner crazy—but always remember that actions can have big, big consequences.

♥ MEET HOT ALIEN SINGLES IN YOUR AREA ♥ Space Hero Kel, Robo-Risq, and Desert Wanderer Arturo are just a few of the contestants who couldn’t be more excited* to be featured stars on the galaxy’s sexiest gameshow! Match-up with everybody onboard and learn their secrets. *Disclaimer: Excitement may vary.

♥ EVERYBODY GETS TO DATE! ♥ Whoever you DON'T pick as your partner will team up and compete against you. Get the chance to see how the other characters get along when you’re not in the room.

♥ ALWAYS ANOTHER EPISODE… ♥ Finish one episode, and immediately start binging another! THRILL as you discover that literally everything is different on the second playthrough! GASP as you slowly reveal more secrets of The Ship! GRUNT as you consider the possibility that Interstellar (2014) although a critical darling, was perhaps a bit overrated at the time of release!

♥ MYSTERIES AND TWIST…ERIES ♥ Unravel the riddle of The Ship, the alien audience, and your alien host with the alien most: Xargazorg. Every playthrough and every unique route gets you one step closer to escape…

♥ FURTHER FUNTASTICAL FEATURES ♥ 150,000+ Words! Hundreds of lines of voice acting! 20 Unique Endings! (With Achievements! Whoa! Achievements!) A fully original soundtrack with over a dozen sick beats! 6+ hours of unique story content! 1 super-secret true ending! 1 very hot girl who is part robot but also super mean and basically evil!

Have you ever said the wrong thing during a date and had it turn out WELL?

It's finally time... Xargazorg is the charming host of Kiss/OFF and your forever friend! Voiced by Michael Kovach (@kovox), Xargazorg is a fun and friendly octopus-like alien who is the very entity who kidnapped you (safely!) and forced you (sweetly!) to participate in this heart-pumping intergalactic dating show.

Xargazorg may come off as a little bit intense, but he's just a little guy who LOVES love. And he simply HATES drama. All you need to do to make good old Xargy happy is to play Kiss/OFF and go on amazing dates with the alien partner of your dreams. Now, doesn't that sound like a win-win? Such is the beauty of LOVE!

Get to know Papa Xargy-Wargy: