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Shattered Melodies

By yancharkin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8073.2336
Fun9582.8435
Innovation4353.5236
Theme5713.6136
Graphics7983.1032
Audio4443.2336
Humor5003.0334
Mood8103.0135

Comments

yinyin 2018-04-24 11:20

I like the title music!

At first I thought the game might be a bit too easy being able to play along without penalty and repeat until you got it for sure.

But then I died to my second opponent repeatedly being dead sure about having it right.

Oh well.

yancharkin 2018-04-24 14:46

@yinyin Different timbres make the game harder than it looks at first glance. Also I was in a hurry and didn't tuned my ukulele the way I should (some notes wrong up to 10 percents), that doesn't help in battles as well. If I'll continue developing this game, I'll fix this issues.

antoniomm 2018-04-24 15:57

I'm getting Out of bounds memory access (evaluating 'Module["asm"]["_main_after_fs_sync"].apply(null,arguments)') errors on Safari and Firefox. In any case the idea sounds great for me

zicman 2018-04-24 16:00

Nice fighting music game :D

le-slo 2018-04-24 16:07

Yes the tuning of the ukelele it's weird! Also when both the opponent and the player are playing at the same time the sound gets strange. I had a bug after dying. Nice little game, not at all easy. I found funny the trees that limit the space, super tiny but non traspasable trees.

victrola-sage 2018-04-24 16:07

Haha, I sucked at playing this so I didn't get far at all but the idea is really cool!

yancharkin 2018-04-24 16:10

@antoniomm The game is made in Godot and in my experience web export is not this engine's strongest side. I published it hoping that it will work at least for some people, but I really recommend to use desktop builds.

yancharkin 2018-04-24 16:28

@le-slo Yes, some strings a bit out of tune (~10 percents), but it should not ruin experience completely. And tiny trees is in fact bushes, so it's OK for them to be tiny :) I'm aware of the bugs you encountered, but I have no idea what causes them - I'm new to Godot engine and to gamedev in general.

nidup 2018-04-24 19:55

Goood concept, I like the idea of music battle :smile: The game is pretty challenging, great entry, very innovative and fun, congratz :clap:

kippllo 2018-04-24 21:43

This is a really cool game! (The only problem is I'm musically illiterate, so I died in the first battle). But never the less the graphics are cool and the game has a good feel to it!

quijipixel 2018-04-25 13:22

I love dthe concept!! I know figuring out melodies is not easy but putting some timing to it could make it more interesting or make battles more lively. Great entry!

yancharkin 2018-04-25 14:58

@quijipixel Thanks for the idea, I'll think about it.

drikdrok 2018-04-26 20:14

Neat game! I suck at it though... But very I had fun, and it's a great idea!

polyhatsteve 2018-04-27 20:02

This is amazing, I would say my favourite entry of the jam I've played so far. Really a fresh idea for a game! I think a cool idea might be a hard mode where you could only hear the song once. I managed to beat all the guitar dudes but I had to play the song a couple times most of the time. :P

automatonvx 2018-04-28 00:27

Fun idea, but i also sucked at it. I guess you could make early levels easier by limiting the choice of notes

yancharkin 2018-04-28 08:35

@polyhatsteve @automatonvx Thanks for the ideas! There is a good chance that I'll continue developing this game, in that case this ideas may become useful.

pogo 2018-04-28 15:32

This was a cool idea. I wish the music was a little more musical, though. Each battle right now feels a little lackluster, a flashy intro sequence to each battle with some background music and a more "call and response" battle mechanic would have been super cool.

roka-josh 2018-04-28 15:49

Nice little game, I like it a lot and I think you should take it further. I agree with @pogo that the battles are a little empty or quiet and more graphics and music to introduce them would be cool. The ukulele opponents I found generally more difficult to beat, but they may be because it was slightly out of tune. Great job though, and well done!

yancharkin 2018-04-28 17:23

@pogo @roka-josh Yeah, I know in its current state the game is not very entertaining (and buggy!), hopefully I'll fix it in the future. Thanks for the feedback.

tero-pulkkinen 2018-04-28 21:21

pretty nice song game. Graphics looked nice and i get to play piano during the game.

hare-software 2018-04-29 17:40

Nicely made and very playable in its current state, would like to see it become a full game!

amazura 2018-04-30 00:01

simple and really great idea. the arts and gameplay are :thumbsup: . but when you pressing the tone buttons at same time, the sound is getting strange, yea maybe you could fix that. overall I really enjoyed this game. Good work! :thumbsup:

yancharkin 2018-04-30 09:02

@amazura I think I have a clue why sound gets distorted, I'll try to fix that in the future releases.

niterich 2018-05-01 00:44

Interesting idea! Godot's web export feature did seem to worsen my experience, though. I don't know what you're planning to do with the game afterwards, but could I suggest setting the melodies to certain key signatures? I've always found it pretty difficult to match notes when they're chromatic like that. Maybe add a background chord to further the harmony?

Also, untuned ukulele blah blah blah.

yancharkin 2018-05-01 09:27

@niterich I'd like to remake the game from the scratch in the future. I'll take your idea into consideration.

erikkire 2018-05-05 19:51

Looks fun but I was too bad at this. For us less musical humans it would help to have the same sound being generated by the enemies as the sound being played by the keyboard (at least to start with for the easier enemies).

yancharkin 2018-05-06 08:47

@erikkire Yeah, it's probably a good idea.

guckstift 2018-05-06 14:58

lOl, hilarious plot killing guitarists with my keyboard skills. I love the idea. Improve it with better keyboard samples that can be achieved in the course of the game, also add other keyboard layout options, I have a german QUERTZ keyboard that twists Z <-> Y Maybe you could also add MIDI keyboard support. I think there is a Web API for that.

yancharkin 2018-05-06 15:26

@guckstift Thanks for the ideas! I'd like to improve the game (but not sure I'd have a time for it).

rob-white 2018-05-06 19:25

A very cool concept for a game. I feel like I would be better at the game if the sound effects for you vs your opponent were the same because I have no musical skill whatsoever.

yancharkin 2018-05-07 09:11

@rob-white I'll think of a way to make the game playable for people of all music skills. Ideally it should be able to help them to improve their skills. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

lucas-hoffmann 2018-05-12 21:38

It's a very good game to practice relative pitch!