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Beatz!

By pc-ferreira

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio753.97
Fun4023.29
Innovation4243.27
Overall4753.36
Mood4833.25
Graphics7642.96
Theme9043.08

Comments

teekeks 2015-12-14 10:07

Great fun!

jcwelgemoed 2015-12-14 10:11

Nice concept and fun to play. Music got a bit much at times though but I can see the potential. Nice job

doitle 2015-12-14 10:11

This is a blast. Great choices on the music. They have a great pumping feel that makes it easy to follow the beat. The timing felt a littttle loose at times but generally it works. I think you've got a winner on your hands. You should get with an artist who can make you some real assets specific for your game and get this on a flash portal or somewhere. This actually seems like a great game to also get with a musician who can score your game with some music since this is a music game at heart. Maybe try to hook up with someone on Soundcloud who would do it for exposure.

khallane 2015-12-14 10:14

Cool game but for me it doesnt respect one of the themes (two button controls)

ghen 2015-12-14 10:14

love the music dude, and the visual pretty great too

simoroshka 2015-12-14 10:17

It's fun and the gameplay is well done. But I think the rule is that you need to make all assets yourself, including music and sounds.

otiose-ent 2015-12-14 10:18

Its hard to forecast when you will have to press for the beat, but the art of the characters is nice and music and colors also great

cimbaman 2015-12-14 11:53

The Pause is very disruptive of game play, I thought the game has crashed when it first happened. The cell gets too small some times. The menu is also small even in full screen.
I like the game, but there are too many things that disrupt, make it feel not so good.
p.s. I have no idea how you grow, is it random or what?

pc-ferreira 2015-12-14 13:33

Thanks for all the comments! As a beginner designer, it's really motivational and gives me the direction to improving.

@Khallane, Thanks for the comment! Actually I tried to focus on the Growing theme.
@simoroshka Thanks! This rule is only for the Compo, I've submitted to the Jam.
@cimbaman Thanks for the great hints! I'm trying to improve it. With the short time I had, I was focusing only on the problem @doitle mentioned: the beat timing. I'll update you when I fix it after LD.
@doitle Your comment really motivated me to go ahead with this project and game design at all, thanks very much, I'll keep you guys updated!

modoc73 2015-12-14 13:40

Music is the best I've heard so far. Found the game a bit hard to grasp what to do. Seems like I just get attacked my blue cells.

mrdave 2015-12-14 13:47

I wish you had of trimmed the songs down a little, while I would have liked to try all the levels I only did a few because I felt the music got repetitive.

shadowforce768 2015-12-14 14:02

Great game and great concept, but I believe everything has to be made by you.

Great use of theme!

mintarcade 2015-12-14 14:03

Very cool game, have lots of fun

aaants 2015-12-14 14:03

Trippy - in the best of ways!

freddyw9 2015-12-14 15:58

That was fun, I like the concept.

jamaster96 2015-12-14 16:02

Idgi

tutti-ankka 2015-12-14 16:05

Fun rhythm game, concept was very nice!

kuhnerdm 2015-12-14 16:07

Fantastic game, tons of fun. The timing seems a tad bit off, but I love the concept, and the tracks are fantastic.

dj_pale 2015-12-14 23:02

Background got a little disturbing and the beat pattern was a bit hard to follow.

antimattertape 2015-12-15 01:06

It could definitely use some sort of visual aid to go along with the beat instead of the long text based tutorial because I was a bit confused as to what part of the beat I was supposed to click too.

gkxd 2015-12-15 02:09

When I was playing, I accidentally hit the pause button which was disorienting. I couldn't figure out when larger waves would shoot out either.

Other than that, the game was fun.

justinooncx 2015-12-15 02:40

Funky soundtrack, and with an interesting blend of twin-stick shooting and rhythm games! Well done!

smoreley 2015-12-15 02:45

I might of been head bobbing to the beat while playing this :D. Neat game, enjoyed playing it.

Maybe I'm weird but the text for the menu was near unreadable (only through squinting and guess work was I able to get to work).

lxxgarrisonxxl 2015-12-15 04:09

Cool game! Rhythm games are some of my favorite. I focused on music a lot in my entry too!

x92rwzb 2015-12-15 10:01

Nice rhythm game!

zeezgames 2015-12-15 22:11

I love music type games so fair play i enjoy this alot :) proper going at the music :D

Well Done!!

ploy 2015-12-16 00:01

Awesome, man :) But pause button is too big, you'd better place it on the top-right corner of the screen

h-attila 2015-12-16 00:09

I really enjoyed this one, although I tend to like rhythm games in general. Nice effects, cool tracks. Reminded me of Beat Hazard, which is a great thing. :)

jod 2015-12-16 09:52

Wow, first rythm game I've played on here. Excellent mix of audio with gameplay!

crawler-studios 2015-12-16 14:27

Good entry, pretty fun.

taffaz 2015-12-16 18:24

Really cool game. Fits the theme and is a great take on a rhythm game tat I haven't seen before.

hippolyta 2015-12-16 22:09

Great game and the audio tracks are awesome!
I played it way too often ;-)
Very well done!

nunesbarbosa 2015-12-17 02:07

It is a hard game.. have potential.
The music is really cool too but you already said that you used free music.

allthebees 2015-12-17 03:02

Cool idea! Love rhythm games! The music is and art is not to my taste but there's a lot of potential for a great game, I enjoyed the mechanics a lot.

nowandstudios 2015-12-17 15:53

So original game. I love the music!

drfallos 2015-12-18 11:09

This was a interesting idea and very good use of the theme - nice job.

bradur 2015-12-18 13:07

Nice beat game. Music was cool and the graphics were nice. The game was quite hard at first though.

crashmore-studios 2015-12-18 15:31

Cool game! Did you program a beat detection algorithm during a weekend? Good choice of music too. It was a little difficult to time the shooting by only the change of color. Maybe some kind of indicator before you actually have to press would make it a little more intuitive, like a circle around the cell that gets smaller, and signals to player to shoot when it's as small as the player cell. Just a thought :) Really good job!

jamesmowery 2015-12-19 06:17

Not really sure what's happening. I'm not sure that it's working for me. No sound. On Safari on Mac.

23 2015-12-19 07:30

Nice fun shooter! I didn't really understand why the blue things changed size and only seemed to explode sometimes, but other than that it was solid.

weeping-rupee 2015-12-19 16:29

Fun game-- good music choice for beat.
I didn't see any penalty for spamming my wave blast though. Not all games need a penalty for hitting on the off beat but I think this one could have.

ramoncb 2015-12-20 03:38

It's simple but is very fun! Good job!

As people already said, maybe in the future would be cool if the game have a penality for miss the beats, maybe in the score, or some "accuracy" percentage bonus.

hotboxgames 2015-12-20 14:51

Great game!
Was a little difficult to get the rhythm going, but super well presented!
Good job

mikhail 2015-12-20 16:56

Loved the game! The only problem I with it was that it froze randomly (or at least seemed random). It wasn't at a specific time in game but it did seem to freeze when I clicked.