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Plonat Atek

By s-ol

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall244.1227
Fun2083.3025
Innovation14.7627
Theme1833.6226
Graphics494.2026
Audio84.3425
Mood753.7224

Comments

pta2002 2017-04-23 21:12

This is awesome! Good job!

epicsoft 2017-05-02 01:27

Fine game, great in 48 hours

mahalis 2017-05-02 01:53

This is incredibly clever—I’m amazed it’s possible to make comprehensible visuals and reasonably-tonal sound out of the same stream of data. Great work.

knightowl 2017-05-02 02:08

Very cool concept. It could use a fully integrated UI to control the experience and visually showcase what is going on between what you are seeing and hearing. Not to demean how science-cool the concept is, but this is something I could see becoming an addictive phone app for geeks of all disciplines.

s-ol 2017-05-02 21:15

@knightowl what do you mean by 'control the experience'? There is some minimal integrated UI, the three/two/one dots in the paddle (that are supposed to be properly centered but aren't) are the health display for example.

those-30-ninjas 2017-05-02 21:18

WOW, This is super cool. I have never seen anything like this. Great job.

geckoo1337 2017-05-02 21:22

Incredible project. I have no clue about how you did that, but it's just awesome ++

samlo 2017-05-02 22:39

This is insanely cool, I've been watching on Twitter for a little while. I just want you to know you've inspired me to make an oscilloscope emulator in Unity

kurt-roembke 2017-05-03 02:39

Ah!!!!!!!!!!! You're my hero.

juan 2017-05-03 17:30

I just love these osciloscope things, it just blow my mind everytime I see what you can draw with these things! Sadly, the emulation don't looks so great as it shiver quite a lot, making it hard to see what is happening But there the same problem with other osciloscope visualisation projects, so it's not really relevant to point this out: It looks great on a real one for sure.

Very original project, i really want to learn more about all of these sound programming stuff now :D

s-ol 2017-05-03 21:50

@samlo: thanks! Definitely look into upsampling, that's what makes the dood.al vectorscope so good, and it would be really nice if you find a way to make it auto-bind/register a loopback interface so it works without people setting up a virtual audio card just for this.

@juan: which emulator did you try? The one in then Windows package is quite bad, as I note in the Instructions on itch.io, but the one at https://dood.al/oscilloscope/ is really good, but requires a bit more set-up unless your sound card has 'stereo-mix' or you have a good audio setup already. Or check local ads/craigslist for a used analgo osci :stuck_out_tongue:

sgstair 2017-05-04 06:13

Really neat and original idea. The gameplay is pretty minimal, but I'd love to see this idea get developed further.

iwa 2017-05-09 11:58

Great job! I'd love to try it.

ghostbomb 2017-05-10 11:29

This looks really cool.

blackrose 2017-05-12 00:50

Its look great! Its a fun game and a funny concept ^^

s-ol 2017-05-14 15:38

@iwa it should be rather straightforward to try with the instructions on itch, albeit in a software emulated Oscilloscope of course.

wolderado 2017-05-14 17:34

This is super cool! How did you do that in 48 hours :smile:

filipeabelha 2017-05-14 17:42

Loved it! Very nice game! Congratulations!

kl0z 2017-05-14 18:06

Man... this is a fucking masterpiece, love oscilloscope art, I have one but currently not here, I will play it on the oscilloscope!! Really nice work man!! Congrats!

kaisean-games 2017-05-14 18:12

You are insane. I. N. S. A. N. E. :)

I can't play it obviously, but it seems great nonetheless.

It must have been interesting 48 hours.

Well done.

pascalman 2017-05-14 19:21

It's so cool! It's funny! It's simple and beautiful in the same time! Great for compo!

jelch 2017-05-14 19:41

I was able to get it running in my schools electrical lab. Absolutely awesome! Bravo on doing something so unique.20170514_122618_Burst03.jpg

2017-05-14 19:59

Great idea, more analog games please!

puppetmaster 2017-05-14 20:04

This is a very unique way to play a game. I like how you have added the gravity curve to the ball. This game should have his own categories. Well done!

s-ol 2017-05-14 20:47

Thanks for the kind comments everyone!

@jelch that's super cool, most likely the second piece of hardware ever this has been played on! Waiting for @kl0z to claim the next :stuck_out_tongue:

@puppetmaster: the curve actually comes naturally with polar coordinates. I was actually thinking about amplifying the effect but the way I hastily implemented the hit-detection made it risky to change it late into the project.

jon-tiburzi 2017-05-14 22:02

I once made some music with function generators and oscilloscopes...it was really hard and sounded awful. But making A GAME for an oscilloscope????? That's next level right there. 10/5 innovation.

takusan 2017-05-14 22:36

Okay, you've done something I couldn't even try during LD. I've done my share of coding on oldschool machines (Atari, C64 and Amiga), but this takes the cake. It looks awesome, and the sound really adds a great vibe... I'll just leave my rating for you guys. You're nerds among nerds, 10/10 :)

@jon-tiburzi actually that's a funny story - first video game was made for oscilloscope, look it up. Yet nowadays, it's indeed an real innovation... again. Fun times :D