Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → Dont Drop The Bass!
By taqoshaq
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 316 | 3.66 | 35 | |
| Fun | 253 | 3.62 | 35 | |
| Innovation | 77 | 3.81 | 35 | |
| Theme | 1127 | 2.15 | 34 | |
| Graphics | 842 | 3.00 | 36 | |
| Audio | 57 | 4.04 | 35 | |
| Humor | 235 | 3.40 | 33 | |
| Mood | 413 | 3.45 | 34 |
I am the first :) Really good game with some amazing tracks. In fact, it's an usual top down shooter. However yours fits with the theme as well as possible. The main aesthetic is good. However respectfully I think that you can add a custom mouse pointer - the previous is a little bit annoying. I have a script which does that - if you want. I am on twitter. Thank you. I wish you the best ++
Love the beat concept. Had me tapping along the whole time. However, the graphics were pretty off on the Mac version. Congrats on the jam and keep it up :)
Scaling for the ui was a bit weird, but other than that the game was really fun. Maybe add a bit of variety to the music and the game would be a lot more fun, as the track began to get annoying after about 7 minutes. This is definitely a project you should be proud of!
Wow! This was really fun! Once I found out I needed to be on beat, I always got really excited when the music started to building a bass.
Great twist on a well known genre. I can't stop playing!
@jomiak Whoops! That's on me for not testing that out! Thanks for the heads up! Fix forthcoming.
I only see the download for the Mac app! Please let me know when a windows executable is available! Was looking forward to trying it!
nice!
@bitzawolf Should be back up now! Let me know if you have any further issues!
@taqoshaq thank you! Checking it out now.
Oh I looooove love love this game!! Absolutely adored it! The music is great! Wonderful beat! I love how the music gets louder and adds in tracks as you get a higher beat-combo going! I only wish it wasn't as punishing for dropping the beat, maybe just reduce your current beat-combo instead of dropping it to 0. The troll comments and uplifting notes were spot-on! I loved every bit of it! Thanks for making such a fun little game!
Awesome music/rhythm game! Especially funny having DJ'd at lots of festivals and dealing with my fair share of haters/song requesters etc. Also curious, how did you get the audio to sync up? I'm assuming some sort of third party program like Wwise or Fmod? Great work!
Really fun, love rhythm games. Super agree with Amerigo that I'd love to see a post-mortem on how you did the audio parts of the game.
haha, I liked that soundcloud game!
@amerigo-gazaway @jjjjason - We actually did the audio sync manually, without third-party packages.
Basically, since we were only dealing with many different layers of music tracks, all with the same length and BPM, we didn't need to come up with a generalized solution and just needed it to work for one BPM. We relied exclusively on the audioSource.timeSamples method to keep track of where we were in the track, since the audio can get out of sync with the game clock pretty easily. Additionally, since we knew the BPM, we could keep track of at what time the previous beat was and where the next beat should be, which we compare against the player input to determine if the input was "on beat" or not.
Unfortunately this method doesn't work for WebGL (arrggghhh!) and doesn't work if you want to have a dynamic bpm or tracks with an unknown bpm.
Wow thanks for clarifying! That's alot of work! But makes sense if the whole game is one BPM the I guess that makes things a little easier. Still though, super impressive for just 3 days. I'ma DJ composer trying to get more into game development and interactive audio so i'm super curious how all this works. Thanks again!
Really creative game! The Innovation and audio was the best!
This is good but there should be some penalty for not being on beat, because I feel like sometimes i can just spam click.
@nandon interesting! I thought I had worked that out! Thanks for the feedback!
This is an interesting game. I've played a lot of rhythm games, like Frequency, Amplitude, Rock Band, et cetera, but I had trouble staying on beat in this one, even after syncing. I feel like the window could be a little less strict, or the penalty for missing could be less severe. It's a buzzkill to build up the track and then have it completely cut back to zero. It's a cool concept though, and has room for expansion. Maybe you could add sound effects in the key of the track, when you attack or get hit.
Very nice!
Rating 20!
Feels great when I get it, but I couldn't always get the correct timing, even with offset adjustment. Still a great job for a jam game!
Very good idea. Although I have discovered that I suck at rhythm
I loved a song and the gameplay (and the joke with the soundcloud is hilarious!). I just did not understand the connection with the proposed theme.
Congratulations for the game.
Really nice way to play but maybe too hard. You can change the range of success for clicks a bit longer or if you don't have one you can just add it :D Music and mood are good
Great game, I loved everything about it. The theme, the music, the gameplay, the game feel... Everything was awesome. My only complaint is that it doesn't have to do with the Game Jam's theme at all...
@euler-moises @masterproject Thanks for the feedback! Indeed, our final product ended up straying from the theme a bit! I guess if your "life" is music and keeping with the music makes it stronger, its some form of currency? Sure, I'll go with that!
I like the game though it's not much on theme it's nice, although it would be nice to have a tutorial at the beginning of the game
Thank you for submitting your game to be played on my stream!
Once the stream is finished you can find the video here: https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos If you want to know when it was played you can find your game in the queue here: https://tinyurl.com/y5rdokvp
Love the soundcloud aesthetic. Doesn't really fit well with the theme, but that's okay. It's a good game about MUSIC.
Nice rhythm-shooter. I know Unity makes it difficult to do rhythmic synchronization like this, so I'm always impressed when people pull it off this well. Synchronization wasn't perfect, but I was able to get the combo meter built up all the way a few times. The layers of music coming in the more you built up your combo was a nice touch (and the music was good on its own). Good work!
I thnik it's incredible that you made a rhythm game in only 3 days! Amazing work and difficult but cool gameplay! I like the music, it fits really well with a top-down shooter in my opinion.