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Beats of Nightmare

By insality

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio84.23
Coolness289
Fun993.69
Mood1253.59
Overall1423.65
Graphics1593.80
Innovation5202.91
Humor6682.25
Theme9301.93

Comments

nicotuason 2015-08-24 06:50

Beautiful artstyle and awesome soundtrack! The music makes this game really fun to play. I just found it difficult sometimes when some of the obstacles would block my view.

bwafflecone 2015-08-24 07:04

Cool soundtrack, really sets the mood for the game! The obstacles were a little hard to see sometimes though.

gaius-baltar 2015-08-24 07:23

Awesome game! I got like 30000 points and my heart was racing, the pointer thingy was going really fast and the lights were all over the place. Also, the music worked with the whole game flawlessly.
One of the best submissions this LD for sure.

insality 2015-08-24 07:31

@Gaius Baltar, i had spectate on you records, you now is Number One at highscore ;) Thanks for playing standalone
Are you know, what you have a personal page?) http://45.55.134.136:5000/ld33/info/Gaius

dkoding 2015-08-24 07:55

Cool but theme?

jajo 2015-08-24 08:08

So difficult, but enjoyable.

geeitsomelaldy 2015-08-24 08:14

Interesting game, but the repetitiveness of the soundtrack, as well as non-obvious dead-ends combined with the camera speed made for a frustrating time.

I think if the perspective was either directly behind, or directly above it would work a lot better, the almost fish-eye nature of the camera was very disorienting.

sydream 2015-08-24 08:18

It's a well done endless runner, bit too difficult for me if I may say. Audio and Arts nicely done in their abstractivity. However sadly enough I can't see the theme.

split82 2015-08-24 08:56

Omg this was intense :D I suck at these kind of games, but I enjoyed it anyway. Good job.

tuben999 2015-08-24 09:08

The feel of this game is amazing! really good soundtrack and overall design of the game. some obstacles is a bit tricky tough. Keep up the good work! ;)

uthamon 2015-08-24 09:49

I dig arcade-style games with electronic music, so this was a bliss. This mechanic with jumping to center is what makes the game unique, really, really good. Would be great if you would expand it, more music etc.. Congrats.

vururia 2015-08-24 10:37

I love it! My fav entry so far.

cultofmonkey 2015-08-24 10:38

Really difficult! Love the music.

chromebookbob 2015-08-24 10:39

great audio integration and graphical theme

grhyll 2015-08-24 15:06

That's... wut?? I didn't know I was THIS bad '_' My best score is around 10 seconds, I systematically die there. I have tried at least a dozen of times, I find it insanely difficult ^^' It's a shame, because the screenshots look quite promising about what can happen later, and the music seems good, but I am incapable of avoiding those obstacles... Maybe there is something I haven't understood (after saying this I have retried one time and reached 14s! Because it was a different, much easier layout at the beginning...). You should just add an option to let less skilled people enjoy it too ^^'

conormn 2015-08-24 18:16

Holy moly thats a tuff one. Very polished tho!

ronsap123 2015-08-24 20:14

Beautiful graphics! Awesome game!

daveh 2015-08-24 21:02

This game has a lot of style. The audio is great and works well with the cool shadows: having you be chasing the light was a really nice idea. I'm terrible at this kind of game but kept trying because I wanted to see my name on the scoreboard. ;-)

dalep 2015-08-25 00:00

At the moment I’m not able to play it because the web version seems to require a login, and when I try to download the standalone, Google Drive errors out (infinite redirect loop). Any chance you could upload it somewhere like Itch.io or Dropbox so it’s publicly available?

hashtaghashtag 2015-08-25 02:33

The music is enjoyable, and the gameplay is pretty fun. I think the angle of the camera made it a little hard to see how to evade some obstacles, which made the otherwise pleasant challenge of the speed and controls a bit frustrating.

kaltic 2015-08-25 03:16

I always like the games that a built around their soundtrack. The visuals are quite nice and the thumping of the world/music really engages the user.

It was fun though it became quite difficult to navigate certain sections and it didn't feel like user error, but difficulty to tell where to go based on the visuals. Maybe I just missed some visual clue though.

It still doesn't really fit the theme much.

insality 2015-08-25 06:39

Thanks for your all feedback!
About high obstacles: this was an idea. So, seems was unlucky one..

I have updated the game by removing this annoying high obstacles, so lets try it again!
Also i switched hosting to itch.io (for web-version) and to dropbox (for standalones)
Good luck!

manou 2015-08-25 08:18

Awesome sounds and global feeling ! But it's very very hard :P

wevel 2015-08-25 21:19

Really run game, quite difficult but the music is awesome, you can't jump on the web version unfortunately.

flygamer101 2015-08-25 22:59

Great fun little game with cool graphics and music :D Loved it!

lynx 2015-08-26 01:03

Hello orange theme supporter, I do remember you! Glad to see that I corrupted...er I mean that you took up music influenced gaming haha...

Very cool game! I don't know if it was just me, but jump wasn't working for me....but it was still super cool! Wonderful music too!

insality 2015-08-26 05:29

Thanks for all feedback! again ;)
What is mean, what jump is now working? There is one rule: Jump is recharging by pickuping orbs. I testing game in different browsers, all is working well.
May be i should did it more obviously, my mistake

camlang 2015-08-26 06:17

Nice runner, man. Cool beat effect and graphic style. It can be good game. But theme dude. It's far fetched in your game, from my point of view.

Anyway it's very cool entry for compo. Good job.

dalep 2015-08-27 06:44

This is a very challenging game but it’s also addicting to keep practicing and getting better at dodging each obstacle type. The music and graphics work really well together and get adrenaline pumping. I thought the controls seemed a little too twitchy as I’d often crash into the side of openings while trying to line myself up, but I don’t play endless runners much so maybe that’s just me.

strike 2015-08-27 07:54

I love games like Super Hexagon, Boson X and Velocibox. This one fits there perfectly. I would have just jizzed in my pants if collecting orbs was sync with the beat. But I can imagine this would have make the level design a hell to build. I'm just wondering how it fit the theme, but the game is so great that's the only thing i can complain about. Good job on the art style and music too.

sergicollado 2015-08-27 08:46

Great sound ang graphics, I love it

meadgard-games 2015-08-27 09:58

Nice graphics and light effects, but I don't see the monster.

guoboism 2015-08-28 23:26

Great game! The visual is so styled!

saucygames 2015-08-29 06:02

cool

aevek 2015-08-29 06:59

I played this a lot. Its challenging in the exact right way, and the instant restarts and randomized levels kept me playing for waaaay longer than I expected to. Great job!

andreymust19 2015-08-29 07:52

'Jump' not working for me. 'Space' button just plays sound.

dat_not_my_game 2015-08-29 12:44

Nice!

tmpxyz 2015-08-29 13:50

Quite good style, and the visual has a good match with the beat.

crazyminnowstudio 2015-08-29 21:57

I love the look and sound, but it was way to hard for me, which made it frustrating.

onionblitz 2015-08-30 06:37

Really fun and challenging! Love the music.

jimjam 2015-08-30 07:37

Really fun entry, and the audio fits really nicely!
Some of that difficulty may also be reduced by reducing some of the noise on screen. For example, the shadows cast by the obstacles look great, but may mess with the player's ability to judge spacing and distances.
Great fun!

walsh9 2015-08-30 07:45

Great soundtrack! Took a bit of practice to and figuring out how the 'jump to the center' worked but I eventually managed to get to level 2.

ulydev 2015-08-30 21:51

Wonderful entry. For some reason, though, my highscore is not showing in the leaderboards. http://imgur.com/78Fm2uH

khaotom 2015-08-31 01:59

Very challenging!

dregamr 2015-08-31 14:20

Beautiful game!!
The music is fantastic, and the light effect is awesome!!
The beats effect is supreme!!
I loved this, congratulations!!

zambini 2015-08-31 17:32

Fun runner! Great art (both audio and visual). Not sure what it has to do with the theme but great work overall :D

zeriver 2015-08-31 17:48

It's one good looking (and sounding game)! I like this robotic voice and everything is just so perfectly matching! I mean art style and lightning effects plus this sick beat :D
It is a challenging game and i'm gonna play it more when i get time.

geckoo1337 2015-08-31 21:13

Fun, but really really hard - maybe I am just bad :)
The controls could be less sensitive for more pleasure, but the mood is cool. A game wich is really addictive. A solid entry. Where is the monster? Thank you ++

Biruts 2015-09-02 00:51

Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.

crawler-studios 2015-09-02 04:40

Wow, this game is difficult. But my god this game feels amazing to play. Everything from the music to the graphics is great. Great job!!

jupiter_hadley 2015-09-06 13:19

Challenging, fun game. I included it in part 19 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/bouSnGLQUcs

tth2x 2015-09-14 16:43

Full of rhythm and life!!
it was a little bit hard to me ~ but i really enjoy the challenging process and really love it ~
it worth more votes~

mubox 2015-09-14 23:30

Very good audio. :D
Sometimes I loose the control of my character.

PS: We have fixed our game, if you want to see it again. ^^
Thank you.

radmars 2015-09-15 00:18

Nice! Great music, sounds like there's some Ken Ishii/Rez influence :D Cool game mechanic though dying in one hit combined with the fast starting speed is really unforgiving. Also it was a bit weird that level 2 started out way easier than level 1. Regardless I had a lot of fun, nice work!