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Synesthesis

By thefuntastic

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation234.16
Audio54.23
Overall1523.67
Fun2473.36
Theme3083.80
Mood4373.05
Graphics8042.71
Humor10611.24
Coolness128448

Comments

2013-04-29 05:26

I really wish I could vote. This game is very good, sticks to the theme, and is completely enthralling. Fantastic job!

The only complaint I had was the sound was very quiet.

gafblizzard 2013-04-29 08:35

Very cleverly done! It is indeed a sort of Conway's game of life with music, but made into a puzzle.

mortus 2013-04-29 09:09

I really enjoyed this game. Great work!

chman 2013-04-29 09:38

Really smart game, well done.

ianmaclarty 2013-04-29 09:52

I found this game intriguing, but I had no idea what I was doing. I'd just join up random nodes and click them and eventually progress to the next level.

kristiangibson 2013-04-29 09:54

This is very nice!

LionOfOrange 2013-04-29 17:41

Nice game, the 3D concept good we worked out more imho.

galvesmash 2013-04-29 23:30

Great game! Cool idea!

iamorim 2013-04-29 23:37

I enjoyed the visual and the idea about having music in gameplay but a little confused about how to win. As Ian MacLarty said he went to the next level 'eventually' .

shigor 2013-04-29 23:39

This is FUNTASTIC! Too bad there's just few levels (there's some mention of free play in the last level, but I can't do anything more....) I demand more notes!!!

On the serious side... the best concept I've seen so far

hegemege 2013-04-30 00:30

Really cool concept! It would've been helpful to see the nodes you have connected, but it's a minor thing (in the screenshot they are visible though, I also had some flickering if the camera was in the default position). +1 on minimalistic description

thefuntastic 2013-04-30 11:32

Thank you for all the feedback so far. It is quite lovely!

@Hegemege don't suppose you will see this, but I'm struggling to understand your feedback, unless there is bug I'm not aware of. The game should be exactly as the screenshot.

Also for those struggling, the win condition is getting a loop going, which can play the require number of beats and use all the nodes. Should perhaps explain that better next time ;)

hegemege 2013-05-02 11:21

Here's a screenshot of the flickering, only happens when the camera has not been moved. http://prntscr.com/1333u7

And this time playing I can see the connections. Really weird, I couldn't see them the first time. I just got this bug as well http://prntscr.com/133424 , after finishing the level one of the nodes got stuck and keep repeating the audio for it, might be just that the solution breaks after reaching the goal?

baldwinthree 2013-05-03 08:24

This was an awesome game to play and relax with. I only wish there were more levels! (also the nodes-meeting noise was a bit jarring sometimes)

jorjon 2013-05-04 02:03

The best tone based game of this LD.

saintheiser 2013-05-04 02:34

Well done!
I impressed with this game!
I didn't imagine that I'll play in musical puzzle game and its not be annoying, because I have not got an ear for music.
Excellent work!

jellycakes 2013-05-04 19:12

Was pretty nice, wasn't really clear on exactly how to play but I guess I won in the end anyway. Was a nice toy to use but I didn't really play around with it that much. Good job!

zkenshin 2013-05-06 17:46

Really great job. :)

atraxgames 2013-05-06 19:12

Sometimes i played with tone things, like the one in the chrome experiments, but they are meaningless, instead you were able to make a games out of that. Congrats!

eatenalive3 2013-05-06 20:28

Nice! It isn't very hard if you use only two spheres and a directional node, but it's awesome making your own sequences if you don't 'cheat' :P

kefir 2013-05-06 20:33

One of the best! Really great fusion of puzzle game and music toy! Very very fun and enjoyable!

nimblegorilla 2013-05-08 03:45

The musical tones sound really nice. The three dimensional aspect of the puzzle was also cool. I wish there was a way to add and remove nodes in a freeplay mode.

bobiniki 2013-05-09 15:57

Wow that was fun. Very original idea. I like how sandbox-ish this is.

minionstudios 2013-05-10 15:00

Wild and fun game! There are a ton of variations and the possibilities of this becoming a huge game are limitless!

ethankennerly 2013-05-12 22:17

Connecting black boxes and balls to hear notes lured me. If you continue to develop this, at a later level I was not sure how to do that.

jacques_le_lezard 2013-05-13 18:15

Wooooooow it has a great potential!!! oO If you permit I think I might use your source code as to make some experiments. ^^

sylvain-p 2013-05-15 17:50

Interesting concept, but it's hard to understand the light comportment.

benjamin-soule 2013-05-17 07:12

Synesthesis work pretty well as a sandbox. As a game I think it needs a better goal. You can achieve a loop with a lot of different moves, which somehow kill the puzzle aspect. I even finished some level without actually creating a loop but just a very long sequence. I also think that double size node or color would help to recognize the 2 different nodes ( Maybe my bad, because I had to run the game in 640x480. Moving and drag for link was easy and pleasant to use. And of course the resulting tunes was most of the time very nice.