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BeatFace In Space

By drprettypatty

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio74.52
Coolness362
Mood433.90
Innovation514.03
Graphics584.18
Overall743.86
Humor1133.70
Fun1523.64
Theme1713.85

Comments

jaloko 2015-04-20 05:37

Awesome game, I liked everything about it. Especially the audio. The game overall felt very polished nice job!

stoarch 2015-04-20 12:07

Greatest game I ever played. Music and beat is fun. Controls is clunky but not matter.

pietdagamer 2015-04-20 18:39

Amazing visuals, music, and mechanics!

kinzata 2015-04-20 18:39

I found it hard to control the character because it would get stuck on elevation changes. Otherwise it's great!

azurency 2015-04-20 18:45

Nice game, i love the audio and the game is fun!

chrisgaudino 2015-04-20 18:46

Great job! Very unique take on a rhythm game, and I loved the visual style as well.

snesgaard 2015-04-20 18:48

Must say that your work looks really cool. Unfortunately I'm having some trouble getting it to run on Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit. It crashes immediately after showing the Unity logo with the following console output:

displaymanager : xrandr version warning. 1.4
client has 8 screens
displaymanager screen (0)(eDP1): 1920 x 1080
Using libudev for joystick management


Importing game controller configs
Aborted (core dumped)

Any help would be appreciated, as I would really like to try out your game :)

yvanor 2015-04-20 18:48

I have serious problem with controls (^^'), but the game is polished and this music make it really cool, so good job ! :)

thomastc 2015-04-20 19:03

Well, where to begin... 5/5 almost everywhere, and I don't grant those lightly. It looks fastastic, it has a sense of humour, great attention to detail, the planets morphing into faces is great, and the music...! Are you sure this isn't a Jam game? ;)

drprettypatty 2015-04-20 19:15

Thanks for the nice comments folks!

@snesgaard: Hmm, it works fine on my laptop running 14.10 x64, but I did some research and I guess a few other Unity 5 games like Rust and Cities: Skylines are having the same problem? It seems like using binary graphics drivers instead of OSS drivers might help, or maybe unplugging any joysticks? In any case, I'll upload a web build so you can at least play it a little.
@Frozen Fractal: Haha yeah it's definitely a Compo game, I made everything but Unity's shaders within the 48 hours. I've been working with these tools a lot lately so I was able to be pretty efficient. I'm working on putting together the time lapse as well :)

nuclear-mosquito 2015-04-21 19:19

This game confirms that I have absolutely no rhythm. But it is a beautiful game

snesgaard 2015-04-21 19:42

Linux build is working now :)

Astounding visuals and music, really impressive effort considering the short development time. Did find the controls be rather janky and the enemies falling into the holes didn't seem to have much to do with what I was doing at the time :P

The presentation did give me a Bit.Trip Runner vibe, which is a good thing in my book.

madameberry 2015-04-21 19:48

I had a lot of trouble moving the character. Also, mashing the mouse button with no regard to the beat worked. Probably shouldn't.
Nice music and graphics though.

yamzho 2015-04-22 15:44

Very cool game ! ;)

unconventionalfusion 2015-04-22 15:59

Hard but fun game. Nice art. Well done!

fleegle2000 2015-04-22 17:01

I like the concept, graphics, music, humour. Very nice little game. My only beef was that I found the movement awkward, even in easy mode without having to worry about keeping to a beat. I wish the controls were more precise. Otherwise a solid entry. Great work!

paperblurt 2015-04-25 10:09

Impressive work.
A very nice game with some thought into it...

x1212 2015-04-26 17:07

Great game!
The graphics and the audio work together really nice.

jupiter_hadley 2015-04-29 01:32

Interesting little beat-based game, with great graphics! I included it in part 7 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/Cnio28O-EgI

againey 2015-04-30 22:22

Couldn't figure out how to actually *do* anything intentional. Clicking on the beat seems aggressively strict, and sometimes I was apparently out of sync with the beat without feeling like I was. Though I'm far from an awesome drummer, I do practice a ton, and so I've developed an ear for hearing when my rhythm is off, but in this case, I felt like I was on even when the game didn't think so. I dunno.

But it appears that the game doesn't penalize off-clicks, so I just started spamming the mouse button repeatedly, and that seemed to effectively keep my power bar near max. And then I tried moving around and doing things, but I had no sense of control, could barely aim for the enemies. The sudden shifts in camera position didn't help. I eventually discovered the tire-looking thing, but didn't know how to trigger it; only seemed to occur when I was in the air. Couldn't tell if orbiting served any purpose. Seemed to just keep me away from the enemies that I had to do ?something? to. I eventually eliminated one enemy, though I don't know how. Gave up on the other two because I didn't feel like I was learning anything more about how to play.

joshk 2015-05-05 11:22

Great game, well done!

speakupgames 2015-05-05 17:14

This is exactly the game I imagine would come from someone watching the itunes visualizer all day.
Got stuck in orbit, then I was just jammin to the beats. Loved it.

jojocanard 2015-05-05 20:44

I have no idea what I just did, but it was fun

deadbodyoutline 2015-05-05 22:03

Wow, one of the funniest games I've played on this Ludum Dare!

archonthewizard 2015-05-07 15:25

Cool idea - the audio and visuals were very impressive

onlyslightly 2015-05-08 03:24

Your game was great! The music was perfect and I loved the upbeat spacey low poly style. It was really easy to get into the groove of the music by forcing me to stay in tune with it. :D