Tsumashibori:Game mechanics

Goal
The goal of the game is to get through the last three months of collage life for Shinbo Kousuke (from now on referred to as "you" or "the player"), hopefully winning a girl's heart.

There is only one game over condition: if Aoi Sakura (from now on referred to as "Sakura"), the older sister, is either pregnant due to another male, or if she falls in love with another male.

Game flow
The upper left hand corner of the map screen shows the Month, Date, Day of Week, and the current weather. The game begins on December 14th, and ends on March 14th of the following year. The entire half-month of December serves as a prologue of the entire game, getting the player to be acquinted with the people and the navigation of the game.

The Calendar screen (accessable from the top center of the map screen) can help you determine what day of the week it is. The calendar starts the week with Sunday.

Eacy day is divided into 5 time periods (displayed on the upper left of the map screen, right beneath the date). Each time period may have different weather conditions.

Various actions, events, and character availability can be affected by the weather, the time of day, the day of week, or special holidays.

At each time of the day the player select a location to go to (sometimes there is only one choice, for story scripting reasions). Depending on the location, additional action choices may be available.

Part time jobs
Part time jobs are the only source of income for this game. The command is only available if the player is already at home during that period of the day, so on a typical day the player can only work twice. The same job cannot be repeated within the day. There are three jobs available:

Title Screen
The top part is just the name of the game (Tsumashibori):

If you have the Kanae addon installed, you will also see:
 * +香苗

The nine options underneath are: