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CHORUS

By vururia

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio2443.19
Humor5991.72
Theme6992.99
Mood7012.50
Overall8072.76
Fun8152.54
Innovation8402.38
Graphics8632.07

Comments

2016-04-17 19:39

Extraordinary game. great music and the overall concept is fantastic.

2016-04-17 19:49

I loved the music DUDEE

holdmeimscared 2016-04-18 11:02

Decent music and application of the theme :)

marsouin 2016-04-18 14:19

Funny game !

plantprogrammer 2016-04-18 14:49

I have to say, I don't particular like music based games.
It is in interesting take on the genre to combine it with shapeshifting "pulses" that you have to catch with the correct shape for best score.

PS: When I pressed reset, the game reset, but the score did not :D

vururia 2016-04-18 14:54

Spaghetti code brought to you by Ludum dare tiredness. Sorry for the bug but I can't fix it as suggested by lf rules.

zugende 2016-04-18 15:06

nice puzzle game!

grayhaze 2016-04-18 15:14

An interesting variation on rhythm action, but let down by the fact that the notes don't seem to have any correlation to the music being played. This makes it seem like the music and game are detached from each other and there's no feedback when you get things right. That being said, the music was very good for being produced in such a short space of time.

With a bit more development and polish it could be an interesting spin on the genre.

vururia 2016-04-18 15:16

Yea the levels on easy and normal difficulty dont give you any feel of the note correlation to the song. Didn't have time to add more visual feedback. Thanks for the review.

dfb98 2016-04-18 15:17

Cool game!
Especially the music, which is awesome!

Also, I think I found a small bug:
When you finish the game while you have CHORUS status, it stays active even when you start a new game.

But as I said, overall, it's a great game!

vururia 2016-04-18 15:19

Thanks for reporting the bug and thanks for the positive review :D

framematt 2016-04-18 15:23

Had to play it on hard, and that was quite funny :P
Nice music too.

mintarcade 2016-04-18 15:31

Hebe! Nice game. Got 24985. Great fun

apantaloni 2016-04-18 21:23

Nice. I'd have liked a little more sense of speed and some animation/visual effect. I love the music!

pellanor 2016-04-18 21:28

I like the take on the theme. Didn't like cycling through shapes.

jdmazz 2016-04-18 21:29

36,300 - first try on hard. I actually thought the music was very basic and droning for a game based entirely on music. Overall it was a good game, but the music could have had more rhythmic elements lined up with the beats of the shapes. There seemed to be no musical cohesion between the music and the shapes. Good idea, though.

teamscripta 2016-04-19 11:34

Nice work!

sushin 2016-04-19 11:34

Fun game! I liked how you combined the type of music game with the theme, using also shapes. Nice work!

studdert249 2016-04-19 11:35

Nice little rhythm game, got a little hectic in parts on hard, but in a good way. Only criticism that I have is that the chorus overlay felt like it obscured the view of the shapes a little too much making it somewhat difficult to keep up.

And my score was: 35628

sheepolution 2016-04-19 11:36

A bit too easy to me, even on hard. Also it would be nice if you could switch from circle to rectangle instantly (with the keys 1, 2, 3 for example). With that included, and the game a bit faster I think this could be a real challenge.

euske 2016-04-19 11:41

I got chorus!

realitycheck 2016-04-19 11:44

38470... first go.

Nice little simple game. Easy to understand, easy to play.

fumiko 2016-04-19 11:59

Great song and the hard difficulty for me was really hard to master, would be nice to see the game with other tracks sometime.

kostasvs 2016-04-19 12:19

Good work, felt a little repetitive very fast though, would be best if you made more music tracks with finite duration (rather than looping).
Glad to see more Greeks around!

vururia 2016-04-19 12:52

It wasn't looping haha

luvshape 2016-04-19 13:51

27278 :P

simple and cool!

jofra 2016-04-19 13:53

Just wish it was a little faster, but interesting concept

obsessivenotion 2016-04-19 14:54

Nice concept. Will be cool when polished

lochmann-apps 2016-04-19 15:28

A solid game

diebackstudios 2016-04-19 16:00

Its great to see so many of these geometry games with in so many settings i did this type of game too with comepletely different setting

berserker_chris 2016-04-19 16:14

Nice Audio, you get points if it is the wrong shape is this normal or a bug?

vururia 2016-04-19 16:40

You get points, but you get triple the points if it's the right one.

coborax 2016-04-19 16:55

Alright music, but gameplay is too boring

virtual_void 2016-04-19 17:34

Nice game! Loved the music and the mechanics

aceyt 2016-04-19 17:45

Easy : 15820 & Chorus Bronze
Medium : 32150 & Chorus Gold

orukinawa 2016-04-19 17:51

Great game! I got 60040 :D

vururia 2016-04-19 18:00

60k that's a lot :O

joemid 2016-04-19 18:10

With a tutorial at the beginning and a little visual/aural feedback- I'd pay for this! Great job!

vururia 2016-04-19 18:12

That's quite possibly the best compliment someone can make to a game dev haha

alexlamarche 2016-04-19 18:28

Seen a lot of games like this. Music was really good. Probably the better of the ones I have played on the site.

luquio 2016-04-19 18:37

i also make something like this, thing most of us did the dame of triangles quads and circles, anyway the idea is pretty good. I made 33968 in hard mode. Could be great if u speed up the game as the song goes on! Cheers

shatterpointstudios 2016-04-19 20:11

Simplistic, but fun. Good concept. I feel like having CHORUS in the middle of the screen kind of obscures things. Would definitely like to play a more finished/polished version of this.

kaiclavier 2016-04-19 21:32

Almost got a new high score, ended up with 59220 points on hard mode! Managing what shape comes next was a bit tricky, but I can see that's it's part of the design!

reismahnic 2016-04-19 22:00

Fun little rhythm game. I appreciated that you got multiple difficulties in there, and your music worked really well for this type of game! Great job.

unit684 2016-04-19 22:04

First played it on easy and found it a bit boring but after giving it a go on hard it was much more fun! Nice music and a good game idea, all it needs is a few more tracks!

casualcat 2016-04-19 22:44

Great music, pretty nice overall. Maybe the graphic could be polished a little. But I like it nonetheless.

almax27 2016-04-19 23:47

Fun game, enjoyed playing hard mode a lot! (Summer)

geekguy100 2016-04-20 02:07

Very unique! For improvement, I would make the shapes speed up over time and make your score drop when a note is missed.

cat5casey 2016-04-20 02:49

36768 (hard)! :D

nextreality 2016-04-20 02:52

The music is nice and graphics are simple yet effective for the gameplay. Only problem is that the gameplay is enjoyable foe the first few minutes but become a little dull towards the end. Our game had the same issue, so I can't really knock you there! Overall nice job though!

peachtreeoath 2016-04-20 04:52

Took a while for my brain to finally remember the shape sequence

avinashd 2016-04-20 05:54

Simple fun game. The difficulty settings were a great idea because I needed some time to figure out the order of the shapes for hard mode. Generally quite fun :)

adipson 2016-04-20 06:12

original !

manou 2016-04-20 09:20

Kinda addictive.

khanatos 2016-04-20 11:04

Congrats for complete the game! I think speed must increase faster.

whilefun 2016-04-20 13:12

The music is so great! I got ~26,000 score and a Silver, unfortunately not high enough for the scoreboard though. This was fun, nice work! :)

ekkiiiii 2016-04-20 15:00

Nice idea! The controls work very well. A little more feedback would've been nice. It was also hard to see where the connection between shapes and rhythm was.

pov 2016-04-20 15:12

When you see this, contact me. http://ludumdare.com/compo/contact/

pov 2016-04-20 16:04

And resolved. :)

ramayana 2016-04-20 16:44

it was a nice experience. But i didn't understand the points system. One time you gin 800 points, the next time you lose 20 points and another time your points are multipled by 10 or divide by 2 all of that on the matching shape. Can you explain to me how does it work ? ^^

vururia 2016-04-20 16:48

@Ramayana Font is kinda weird. You get 100 points for getting a note without the correct shape, you get 300 with the correct shape, if you get 8 correct shapes in a row you get into chorus mode and gain those points x10 incrementing by every successful shape x10 while in chorus mode.

sir-magic 2016-04-20 16:52

I really liked the music and the idea of a rhythym action game for shapeshifting, nice!

semicolon 2016-04-20 17:19

Pretty depressing music, and the gameplay feels kind of boring. For the rest it is somewhat innovative, you could expand on the main mechanic to make it more interesting

muciojadpl 2016-04-20 17:21

26320! Wow that's really difficult when you have just few seconds to change shape from circle to triangle and move from first line fo last :D Good vibes in your game too! Cheeeeers!

madalaski 2016-04-20 19:13

Good music and good use of theme. Overall, a decent rhythm game.

lostviking 2016-04-20 19:45

I liked the controls and the music was decent. The only thing I didn't like was the logo obscuring the view when I got a combo. Besides that it was good.

cynicalmonkey 2016-04-20 19:50

nice interpretation of the theme

neondx 2016-04-20 21:16

i had some fun for a couple minute. good play

cerno_b 2016-04-20 21:23

The music is a bit grating, but finished with 40870 points on hard. I may be mistaken, but I also found the visuals were a bit off the beat.

As a gameplay recommendation, it would have helped to have each shape on a different key to make switching more intuitive.

Good job overall.

edocreate 2016-04-21 07:14

Pretty pazzle and nice music!

ducktieteam 2016-04-21 10:03

Great concept,

+Great music
+Mechanics

-Graphics, need to be polished a little
-Difficulty, it doesn't seem to increase, as you progress

ougrouk 2016-04-21 17:18

Very nice music

mementogames 2016-04-21 17:20

Nice and simple! Great entry!
The only thing I found it could be better is how to change shapes. Pressing only space to change it felt "bad" in my opinion.

santiandrade 2016-04-21 18:18

I like the mechanic, but I think the game is a bit repetitive, but is a good entry! Good work!

josemorval 2016-04-21 18:58

Interesting concept! Good job guy!

team_disposable 2016-04-21 19:50

I love the little chorus sound!

iossif 2016-04-21 22:14

my requests:

- one button for each shape.
- 5 times as fast.

think i would play it for ages then :) well done!

oliver_mb 2016-04-21 22:28

The game needs better graphics, but it has good music and is fun. Good job! ;)

xwarzonex 2016-04-22 01:15

Very fun and enjoyable game! The only thing I would've changed is using the spacebar to switch shapes is sorta frustrating, because if you want to shift from like circle to triangle, you have to press space twice really fast. I would've used the left and right arrow keys.

Overall, great game.

tchai 2016-04-22 02:40

I loved your game!

The music is cool, the change of shapes fits fine with the theme and the mechanics is interesting.

Great game! :D

Ah, at level Hard I got 54580 (After many attempts almost I got the second place haha)

maekeruu 2016-04-22 05:33

AMAZING, I'd get to play this because I pitched this idea for the jam but wasn't able to make it happen! AWESOME TAKE ON THE RHYTHM GAME GENRE cuz i've always fancied rhythm games :D this is one of my favorites so far...

More visuals would help make this game bette--- THE BEST! haha

Please continue developing and add more songs... i love this

gertjohnny 2016-04-22 06:11

nice and simple take on a rhythm game. that score font though... the zeroes look like eights, and the ones look like sevens - almost thought my score was going down at some point.

namrog84 2016-04-22 06:15

I didn't like the music at first, but decently into the game, it did start to grow on me a little.

I love the concept and the game though! I've always thought highly of those who make musical/sound related games, since I struggle greatly with most sound/music things.

fabraz 2016-04-22 13:59

Overall, clever idea. Not sure wether it fully pushes the theme of this LD and it's a damn shame the music doesn't sync up with the shapes on the timeline.

vantaug 2016-04-22 16:03

If there was some more background and camera effects going on so that the player really feels the song, that would be nice. And if you could see the three shapes and which one you were changing to, that would be nice. But you only had 48 hour and this is a solid game for sure. The music is great, the game is fun.

Oh, and my score was 32.928 :D

tlansdale 2016-04-22 16:19

Nice idea - perhaps could be made better by using colour to differentiate the shapes?

felixpf 2016-04-22 16:54

Very nice game with great music. I've got a score of 78658 :D

mayank-technical 2016-04-22 17:49

Nice game with cool music.!

zerkruemler 2016-04-22 18:04

I got 24040 in easy mode.
This game is difficult to vote for, because it is a nice idea which is well implemented. But the music is a little bit strange and the player doesn't need to listen to it to play the game.
But nevertheless nice work. A solid game!

pogo 2016-04-22 21:34

I like the idea, but the music kinda droned on and the shapes moved so slowly there was no real reaction. I'd have liked a way to directly go to each shape, rather than relying on remembering the order, or at least for the shapes to come in a more "flow-y" way, so that only one shift was needed between close notes.
Rhythm games are one of my favourite types, and you almost nailed it. The chorus feature for getting streaks of notes was a nice addition, too.

soulbound 2016-04-22 22:37

Amazing music!

pauljs 2016-04-22 23:09

Music very cool !

khaos_fang 2016-04-23 01:55

Nice idea! simple and fun

ceosol 2016-04-23 03:56

It was interesting. I think keeping a highscore board is a brilliant idea for LD.

mightymarcus 2016-04-23 05:29

56040 on the second try. I won a gold medal ;)
Nice. Would of course be even much better if the music where in sync with the notes.

mactinite 2016-04-23 07:07

Fun game, music was fun. I just got done playing rhythm games at the arcade so it was a bit slow for me. Lol. The only real gripe I had was that the Chorus status got in the way of seeing notes.

fanatrick 2016-04-23 12:47

After letting this game run in the background for 2 hours, I accumulated 150k points

good game

vururia 2016-04-23 13:23

I can't replicate the looping bug D:

fatsopanda 2016-04-23 14:28

I can feel that the game had a nice idea behind it, but unfortunately I was left a bit with confusion at first because there was no feedback if you were doing things right or wrong. Overall a nice idea though! :)

lewwwer 2016-04-23 17:17

Great game, good music! Loved playing with :D
My score: 43828

marmpa 2016-04-23 19:37

Wow really nice game. THhe music is the best of any entries i rated so far nice job.

steven-pinto 2016-04-24 04:26

Nice game mate :) Although I think some where after 4k score, the text CHORUS gets annoying. But besides that, the game was good probably, you could add sound effects, each time when the player get the right shape,in this manner the game would generate music too xD

vidsneeze 2016-04-24 07:01

Nice concept, i like the chill cool vibe the game gives off.

vururia 2016-04-24 11:40

@Steven Pinto There's actually sound effects for when you get the right shape and other for when you don't.

hyden 2016-04-24 17:11

The score system was confusing me. First it was 4000, then it was 87500, then it was 23000, sometimes the points would go up, sometimes down xD

vururia 2016-04-24 19:20

it's the font being unclear to some apparently sorry about that :D

bubsypoochies 2016-04-24 19:44

Nice concept with a lot of potential!

tomlum 2016-04-24 20:59

Interesting. I wish the shape-shifting fit more with the music, it felt very unrelated.

thedashdude 2016-04-24 22:22

Not really my type of game, but good job.

fin_nolimit 2016-04-25 01:31

Rery simple and cool!! Music was enjoyable and the controls were easy to figure out! I scored a 72,898!!

omlette-du-fromage 2016-04-25 11:52

I think it's great you did a rithm game, I really this kind of game;

Here's what I think you can improve gameplay-wise:
-> When text "Chorus" pops up, you can barely see the game, which can be annoying.
-> Find a way to let the player know what shape is next and/or let the player go backwards as well. For a new player, it's confusing to get the shape right.
-> I'd let the player use his own music.
-> Visual feedback when you get the shape right/wrong; something like particles or lights.

vururia 2016-04-25 15:24

Thanks for the feedback, almost everything is in the list! :D

strike 2016-04-26 09:26

I wish there was 2 keys to cycle shapes back and forth. Except that it's a very good game.

pixelpotions 2016-04-26 14:03

How come you say peopl wouldn't like it because of the music!? The music is cool! This is my top music based game on this LD until now. Congratulations.

evogengames 2016-04-26 15:42

cool overall, but I would like to see new mechanics

xanjos 2016-04-26 17:55

Managed to get 45330 on hard. Anyway it's a nice take on the rhythm game genre although there were some note patterns that were practically impossible to do and the big Chorus text that appears when you get a huge combo is a bit of a hindrance.

knason 2016-04-26 17:59

my score: 24498. Interesting game and good use of the theme. Great job on the music. Good job!

mkghoster 2016-04-26 20:23

A bit hard but fun!

kaovhmf 2016-04-26 23:04

The music is great, even though a bit anoyning after a while. I this this game deserves more difficulty (beeing faster paced could help) and a way to loose. It could become quite addicting!

cmlsc 2016-04-27 01:51

Too simple and too easy. .-.

rburema 2016-04-27 15:52

".. but I'm sure many people won't appreciate it because of the type of the game and the music .."

I wouldn't be so sure about that...

japes 2016-04-27 17:47

I like the idea of the game, but (1) I think that it would be cool if the shapes added to the music (think Guitar Hero; or perhaps act as a different instrument), and (2) there could be instructions about how to change to the different shapes. The music is a bit tweaky.
However, I think that there is a good idea here. I do wonder how this game will develop further - how would you make this game new or different in this genre?

matiasbontempo 2016-04-28 02:09

Music was a bit annoying and repetitive.

rock-eaters 2016-04-29 00:51

Really Good game, good concept and the music is....ok... easy is way too easy you can choris it from a to z rolling a joint at the same time. Normal is easy/normal and hard mode offer a descent challenge. So i decided to go for your high score board and then i figure that every time you restart the game the score do not come back to zero....so i finished the game with over 95.000 points and a nice gold medal... gonna try it again starting with a zero score :p

rock-eaters 2016-04-29 01:15

so finaly i think i've done a perfect in normal mode for 61050 points and in hard i made 54560 points :)

kate-kligman 2016-04-30 20:40

This is a great idea, cool game!

kairosxiii 2016-05-01 03:28

Nice take on the theme. love the the music. Good job!

rhastapunk 2016-05-02 07:53

Good concept, I would love more speed there :D

neilcorre2k6 2016-05-02 15:30

Cool concept :) decent music! :D

aaranos 2016-05-03 02:13

The concept is good. I managed to get 70k+, didn't get a chance to screencap. I think being able to choose which shape you are could let you go faster.

ryannielson 2016-05-08 00:12

Nice concept, it would have been great to be able to more quickly change to each shape without having to cycle through them.

jaenis 2016-05-08 14:43

Great game!

danilo-bezerra 2016-05-09 10:32

Good work! Catchy soundtrack.

paveldlouhy 2016-05-09 17:23

Your game has been rated by our team member Antonin Charvat (music composer). Here is his comment: Nice music, but the overall concept is still a mystery for me.