brandon-anderson 2017-12-04 02:13
My first Ludum Dare and first compo! Uploaded at the last minute, so sorry about the small description. =)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Do You Mind If My Buddy Joins the Band?
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 359 | 3.34 | 31 | |
| Fun | 445 | 3.05 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 148 | 3.58 | 31 | |
| Theme | 255 | 3.60 | 31 | |
| Graphics | 275 | 3.46 | 31 | |
| Audio | 10 | 4.19 | 31 | |
| Humor | 127 | 3.39 | 31 | |
| Mood | 318 | 3.10 | 30 |
My first Ludum Dare and first compo! Uploaded at the last minute, so sorry about the small description. =)
nice idea and pretty fun game, how many guitar types are there ? I had 3 when i played
Nice idea, was wondering how many people want to be in the band! I also listened closely to the riffs because I also used my guitar in my game :D (not as advanced as you though). Could't quite figure out how many there are, but I do know the same guitarists played the same riff. Are they assigned randomly or sequentially?
New guitarists are assigned with random costumes and random guitars. Each guitar has a different jam and nailed it riff. Eight members will join the band with five guitar and five costume combinations total! (Even though the banjo shares the riffs with the acoustic, ran out of time lol)
I enjoy playing this game. The gameplay is fun, the graphics are nice, and the music/sounds are awesome. Those are cool riffs! Congratulations for finishing your first Ludum Dare! :)
Even if this is your first LD, it is clear that you have some experience doing game dev. The pixel art is awesome. I love how the different guitarists have different skins, different guitars, "jams," and "nailed it riffs" as you mention. The variety is very interesting, and like I said the art style is very clean. The animations are awesome. There's no doubt those lil' guitarists are jamming.
The music is just as interesting as the pixel art. Knowing that you composed the guitar parts adds to the effect even more. I wanted to try to go all the way from A to Z, but from your above comment it appears you can only have eight members join. Very interesting idea, highly inspired and very creative. Cheers!
Nice Artwork ! Love the idea of connecting names with controls! Would be nice to see the highscore after you died, because after you died you have no time to see that.
Nice sounding game! I named the guy Ä and got some funny glitchy results where they didn't know what to do next so they all just kept jamming.
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Funny concept, enjoyed the guitar riffs!
Nice game, love the music! The idea to assign a name to every letter is cool. It was a little easy though. The bar basically always turned green ad the end so it was kind of easy to time the click.
Its a very creative take on the theme. I would love to play a larger version of this, where the switches between the players gets quicker with every 'level' and you have to type out their name completly or something. Making it more challenging.
Loved the idea man, I came in for the title and wasn't disapointed :P
Congrats on the entry!
Wow, this is a really quality game. It's always fun to run into a few you know you'll want to play outside of the jam. This one's one of 'em, for sure! Fun concept!
A fun game, just wish it had a multiplayer mode! I.e so you can play your mates online too! But yeah gonna save this one and see if my housemate wants to play it sometime. I enjoyed the graphics - well done. 8-bit Retro style, and the concept was an amusing one I'm sure to anyone who's ever been in a band hahaha
Hehe, I love how this game turned out. I kept playing just to see how full I could get the room. suggestions: if there were little patterns/rhythms to when you had to strum the guitar/click the key that would make this more engaging for me ( :
Very simple and fun. Great job!
nice idea and pretty fun game
I was very hyped up from just reading the name of the game. As in, it's okay to invite a guitarist friend, and maybe a second one. But 8 or so? That's a hilarious extreme.
The game looks great, and the guitar riffs are fantastic. It gets a bit dull on the gameplay later on, as one would expect the difficulty to ramp up. Making it constant (at least as long as I played, which felt like an eternity) kinda made the game lose its charm. But regardless, it's a submission with a lot of potential. It'd be great to see this become bigger in the future.
That's pretty much it for now. I'll tell my team about this game and hopefully they'll check it out to. In behalf of all of us, great job once again! :whale:
@brandon-anderson You've done a fantastic job on this compo submission! The incorporation of your own guitar riffs is just awesome! I'd love to see a bit more interesting of a mechanic besides timing your button press at the end of a character playing their riff. I actually first thought this was going to be some kind of memorization game where you have to remember the riff everyone plays and then type their first letter when they play their riff.
Do you plan to continue to work on this and improve it? I would love to play an updated version in the future with more riffs :p.
P.S. Love the random names that you pull from the census!
@nammflow I will definitely be changing the way the main rhythm mechanic works. I will add more solos before adding new guitarists as well as the bar will go green for a set duration in a random place. That way it'll add it as more reflex to the game and panic as you won't have so much time to prepare to remember their corresponding letter. Thanks for playing my game!
5* for the audio, awesome guitar riffs. Quite the challenge to get the green bar at the right time. What bugs me is the slow text reading speed combined with the high risk to fail. That makes it a drag to wait for the riffs to start. Overall a nice entry for a compo though.
Interesting idea, though I found that the timing of the key presses and the audio felt really disjointed and made it a lot harder than intended.
Cool that you recorded your own audio for this though!
The concept itself was very good but I'm not really sure if the pattern to choose the next guitarist is an entirely well coded random, since most of the time I would get the same 2-3 guitarists to play. Graphics were good for the kind of entry plus the guitar riffs are neat. In general, a very nice entry for the Compo!