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Orchardstra

By cyberstarlight, Crhis and Joe Dunkerley

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2373.6025
Fun3553.2125
Innovation733.8725
Theme2453.6925
Graphics3963.4725
Audio534.0025
Humor2632.9524
Mood4173.1824

Comments

julien-foucher 2017-05-01 13:03

That was a weird but enjoyable experience :D

tunes9 2017-05-01 19:00

Interesting and fun game. Well implemented and no obvious bugs. Like the art style and how different kind of music you can come up with.

jan5366x 2017-05-01 19:01

It takes a moment to get into it, but it was fun :D

rustybroomhandle 2017-05-01 19:41

Very different, and fun! The style is cool, your interpretation of the theme is great - nice work! :D

gfm 2017-05-01 19:46

I really liked the experience! This is a nice little music playground. =D

At first, I tried to aim with the cursor (i.e., the hammer), so I found aiming at seeds quite difficult. However, I later realized that you are supposed to aim with your actual mouse cursor, and not the in-game one...

scriptorum 2017-05-01 19:47

Five stars for weird! :) I couldn't figure out how to replant, or how exactly a singers position on a face of the world affected the melody, but it was fun to mess with. Love the singer designs.

cyberstarlight 2017-05-01 19:52

@gfm I was aware of that issue before, but wasn't sure how to solve it, if I used the hammer only some players would try to aim with the head and others with the handle, and the hammer follows objects and changes angles too... so I added a visible cursor to the handle. if you can think of a good solution I'd be happy to hear it ^^

neato 2017-05-01 20:08

This was a weird but enjoyable experience. But I had a hard time making the seeds land on the squares and lost a lot of time this way.

dink-dunk 2017-05-01 20:12

That was really enjoyable! well done! I think the one think that I didn't quite understand is the replanting mechanic, and a trajectory line for the seeds would be nice.

aj-weeks 2017-05-01 20:28

Interesting entry! If I can say one thing it would be the world should have been a bit bigger so I could more easily see the guys on the surface. I liked the changing cursor though! Good work!

cyberstarlight 2017-05-01 20:45

@aj-weeks you can use the mouse-scroll to zoom in and look closer :) @neato in hindsight I think you're right, that mechanic was supposed to be challenging but it doesn't add much to the gameplay.

mox 2017-05-01 20:54

That was fun. The dynamic music is great. The hammer control made conceptual sense; hammer positioning gives good contextual clues. I think hiding the hammer unless your cursor is over something that can be hammered would be good. When it's floating around sometimes it feels like I should be aiming with it. If you plan to add other tools, I suppose putting it in a corner of the "hud" would work as well (that could be done as a space near the camera).

cyberstarlight 2017-05-01 21:34

@mox those are good suggestions, thanks!

vidinu 2017-05-01 22:55

I unerstand the objective but its a little difficult and confunsing try to make anything with sense :smile:

vidinu 2017-05-01 22:55

I unerstand the objective but its a little difficult and confunsing try to make anything with sense :smile:

vidinu 2017-05-01 23:09

One of the most creative entries that I could play but a little confusing. I waste much time trying make anything with any sense :smile:. The rhythms are great and I like the crazy artistic style. Good job.

gfm 2017-05-03 03:13

@cyberstarlight I was playing on linux, so the cursor was actually a white square... I'll later play it again, but on Windows. Then I'll think about what would be intuitive for me. :smiley:

I must agree and say that @mox suggestions does sound great! :)

akirassasin 2017-05-08 04:53

Very fun game! The models are very creative and detailed :) A bit hard to know exactly what seed does what though, and how do their positions affect the song.

mathiouza 2017-05-08 15:18

Nice and fun game ^^

blaster391 2017-05-08 15:55

It's a nice little toy to mess around with, but maybe I'm not creative enough to actually design a good tune. I did enjoy seeing my little musical city sprout up as I planted more seeds, and I really liked the art style.

smiling-cat-entertainment 2017-05-08 16:43

Cool graphics and sound and a very unique concept. Like others, it took me a minute to figure out how to aim the hammer. I didn't really have any idea which head was contributing which subtrack, but it was fun to make this huge cacophonous spinning cube. Great job!

freyby 2017-05-08 17:29

A world with singing heads and giant seeds floating around the planet? Sounds like alot of fun!

Haha, this is wierd and cool at the same time! How did u come up with this one? :smiley:

fatpenguin 2017-05-08 18:09

Clicked on the entry because I saw the undertale avatar - don't regret it^^ This one is really innovative! Although I randomly hammered the seeds into my planet I was appropriately pleased with the result :smile:

It would have been great if there was a caption explaining which seed produces which sound, but besides that I truly enjoyed this entry. Great job :)

lugdumdare-team 2017-05-08 18:55

Nice entry! Not sure how to make a full game out of it, but the concept is interesting! Excellent work on how you managed music with different instruments being added while playing. Well done! ;)

caffeinated-psychics 2017-05-09 12:26

Fun little concept, kinda has a katamari damaci vibe to it (maybe the look), really nice voxel work and the music was pretty good as well.

Quite a concept to create singers to make music by smashing things out of orbit onto the planet i gotta say :D

drestuff 2017-05-12 11:37

I had no idea what I was doing when playing this but it felt great! Creative stuff! :hammer:

faithcaio 2017-05-15 17:46

Could not run it on Linux in fullscreen mode. (Mouse clicks are always in the center for some reason) Had to start it with "-screen-fullscreen 0"

But otherwise fun and creative game!

feips 2017-05-17 05:53

I was clicking random locations, I didn't know what I was doing but I like it.