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Another One Loops the Dust

By limered, ryupold, justsWn and helen

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3513.8459
Fun2853.8060
Innovation794.1260
Theme1024.2660
Graphics4023.9859
Audio2923.7859
Humor994.0058
Mood3533.8157

Comments

6smith 2020-10-05 23:03

doesn't seem to load on my browser? i'm using firefox

arifacid 2020-10-05 23:06

I am sad that i did not get RickRoll'd. Very cool game!

stuxgeek 2020-10-05 23:07

Loved the drawn art-style and ofcourse it had to be that song. Good work!

conneli 2020-10-05 23:07

Music choice was great! Loved the visuals as well!

justswn 2020-10-05 23:07

@6smith Thanks for reporting, we are trying to fix it. It works in Chrome or Edge. Well, or the Windows build.

yamo-the-lucky 2020-10-05 23:08

super fun. very good audio management. laughed so hard :)

ian-mcd 2020-10-05 23:12

Liked the aesthetic

mat-stevenson 2020-10-05 23:14

Great game. Nice take on stuck in a loop. Worked fine on firefox for me.

maxtemple 2020-10-05 23:15

love the graphics!

matthewjd389 2020-10-05 23:16

Really fun! Upset I didn't finish the song, but I think that's on me!

patsui 2020-10-05 23:16

+Great artstyle

+Gameplay was easy to grasp and fun

+audio was great

-original song would be better ;)

-player character could be bigger

Overall superb game, great scope also! Love the idea, good job!

limered 2020-10-05 23:21

@matthewjd389 You're in for a surprise, if you finish it ;)

dps2004 2020-10-05 23:21

Pretty fun game, a "how to play" section would have gone a long way I think. I am pretty sure you do not have the rights to the songs you are using though?

matthewjd389 2020-10-05 23:33

@limered here i go loading it back up again. challenge accepted.

limered 2020-10-05 23:37

@dps2004 The song, that sounds similar to "Take on Me" was created by us (Stefan). The end song is just a loop of a part of the original song. So i think we are save here ;)

We added a how to play.

dps2004 2020-10-05 23:50

@limered it is not "similar" to take on me, its the exact same song with different instruments. And the end song is not from take on me, its "Shooting Stars" by bag raiders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feA64wXhbjo I don't think you are safe at all, especially considering the end song is a straight rip.

andrew-babitt 2020-10-05 23:59

LOVED PLAYING THIS GAME! (all caps excitement)

rhaelser 2020-10-06 00:00

Oh man, this looks good!

6smith 2020-10-06 00:15

@justswn nevermind it was just loading and i was impatient lol

@dps2004 using the song is definitely fair use

dps2004 2020-10-06 00:21

@6smith yeah, upon looking back, the take on me reinstrumentation is technically fair use I guess, but I'm not so sure about the shooting stars one. It's not even edited. Also, it really really rubs me the wrong way that none of these songs are even credited! All I can find in terms of credits is "Stefan - Cool music" which is not correct, unless Stefan happens to be a member of Bag Raiders

limered 2020-10-06 00:28

@dps2004 I don't want to argue with you here. Sure, we used the structure and melody from "Take on Me" and a 20 second loop from "Shooting Stars" where i added some wah wah effect, but we do not make money with this game and i think fair use should apply here.

We also added a music section to the description, so nobody gets fooled into thinking we wrote these songs in 72 hours.

dps2004 2020-10-06 00:30

@limered Thanks for adding a music section

walter97 2020-10-06 00:46

Pretty funny, love the artwork and the music choosed

albuquerque 2020-10-06 02:45

Wow. The vibe this game gives is amazing. Why does the dust keep ruining my mood! Nice entry <3 So funny

evogengames 2020-10-06 07:30

What a unique game, I would have expected 'another one bites the dust' as the song though :smile:

Great job and thank you for the game!

bukkaketears 2020-10-06 10:22

A little bit confusing at the beginning, but it got me when "Take on me" started playing in the background. Funny one. :D

idan-rooze 2020-10-06 13:22

This idea is damn good, but on top of that you managed to execute it perfectly. I had such a great time with it, the game is so well balanced and the experience is superb. I like the little touch that hitting the needle resets the track and the way dust and cracks affect the music. Sound design is damn on point. Congratulations and good luck!

tamail 2020-10-06 14:12

Oh, the image of a scratched, dusty record had me cringing. :D So far, one of the best take on the theme! Loved nearly everything about it, only if the controls were more, well, under control. :D

maxflav 2020-10-06 15:39

OMG, why is there so much dust? I was sneezing at the screen while playing. You need a dust cover for your record player! Also, I kept bumping into the needle and making the song start over... But that jam at the end made it all worth it.

walkingtall85 2020-10-06 16:14

Goddamn hilarious, like the idea, execution, art and the off music got me cracking up all the time. Was the art done with a board or vector? Anyways great game!

helen 2020-10-06 16:24

First of all: thanks for all the positive feedback! :)

@walkingtall85 I've drawn everything with a pencil on paper. Then I scanned it and did some adjustments like changing the color.

indigo 2020-10-06 17:15

This is definitely not "fair use" under German copyright law, as German copyright law pretty much doesn't _have_ fair use. You people just have never been sued by GEMA for performing a Beatles song in your local school's auditorium.

The game is awesome though!

thejackimonster 2020-10-06 18:27

Great idea! It fits the theme and I like the art style very much. ^-^

zero-ichi 2020-10-06 20:49

LOVED the game and the style !!!

tom-kun 2020-10-06 20:56

I love the art style, but I didn't seem to know what to do:(

helen 2020-10-06 21:12

@tom-kun when you see the record Player you've got to click on the play button on the right. Now the record starts and a hamster appears. You are the hamster who wants to keep the record clean while playing. Dust and scratches will appears. To clean/repair them you've got two tools (broom for dust and hammer for scratches). You van switch between Tools on right mouse click and move your hamster on left mouse click :)

jake-white 2020-10-07 06:24

This was a really fun game but you should've opted out of Audio, per the rules. Either way good job.

limered 2020-10-07 09:31

@jake-white We left audio in, because we remade the game song and made all the sounds. Also we modify the song on the fly during gameplay. That were the reasons behind opting in. We can't opt out anymore so: If you are not ok with the sound, just do not vote in that category.

toasteater 2020-10-07 10:28

I enjoy the music and art style. Run-time audio manipulation is a great idea and is implemented very well. I wasn't able to figure out what I was supposed to do for a while, but eventually I realized that I should let the record play to the end. Perhaps a lose condition would have made that clearer. Nice game!

forgeronstudio 2020-10-07 15:10

Really fun game! The art is great and everything fits together very nicely. I also thought the ending with the hamster flying about was really funny :)

cubiclaw 2020-10-07 15:55

This game is designed to torture people - the game tricks you into thinking that you are doing well by letting you hear a few seconds of the song at normal speed, you relax and the game immediately hits you with more dust. You get mad, you start working extra hard and end up hitting the needle resetting the track. Took me over 6 minutes to beat the game :cry:

Excellent execution though - the art and the sound design are top-notch. Would get tortured again :smile:

doot 2020-10-07 19:53

Haha I had so much fun!

The music is a nice choice, the art is really good, the ending is a blast.

Thanks for the game 💕

eugenik 2020-10-09 02:15

amazing entry, nice job

eldogg 2020-10-09 16:04

Really cool audio effects and nice graphics style. Good job!

michael-horst 2020-10-10 18:18

Cute game! I love the creative theme and gameplay, and the hand-drawn graphics were a lot of fun. I have just a couple pointers of feedback that are hopefully informative: - A progress bar paired with the "Time Stuck in a loop" song timer would have been helpful. For a while I thought that timer was just saying how long I had survived and not the song time. It's also hard to see while playing. - Some sound/music when the game starts would have been nice, especially when it says "Play with sound on!". I thought I accidentally had sound muted because I heard nothing, and the first sound isn't until you start playing.

All of that said, it was an excellent game and a great entry! Well done!

miklou 2020-10-11 09:25

Nice game ! But i don't manage to reach the end ! Is it possible to listen the music somewhere ? It was really nice.

namidasai 2020-10-12 10:43

This was a hilarious take on the theme, well done! Quite limited in terms of gameplay, would have liked to see more events happening as the player progresses. Art style is really cute though!

jk5000 2020-10-21 08:15

A simple and fun little game.