metadept 2021-04-26 15:12
This is a cool idea! It's a little bit confusing and awkward to control, but it's also fun to just bounce balls around and create chaos.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → A Musical Interlude
By kohonens
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2.56 | 10 | ||
| Fun | 2.56 | 10 | ||
| Innovation | 3.68 | 10 | ||
| Theme | 1.81 | 10 | ||
| Graphics | 1.93 | 10 | ||
| Audio | 2.87 | 10 | ||
| Humor | 1.66 | 8 | ||
| Mood | 1.91 | 8 |
This is a cool idea! It's a little bit confusing and awkward to control, but it's also fun to just bounce balls around and create chaos.
this idea is awesome! it is very fun to play, and i especially love how you can "compose" music using your contraption. great work!
Interesting indeed, was a little confusing though. I have no idea what this "Rube Goldburg machine" is, so would have been nice to add a description of that somewhere. The browser build was also rather laggy.
@digitalcrest Thanks for your feedback, it is a bit confusing, I've updated the description. I guess the issue with the browser build is handling all of the 'music' being produced, I don't have much experience with sound in Unity and didn't have time to design a handler capable of dealing with all the noises. Some of my early builds didn't simply lag they totally froze :(
It's an interesting idea and I'm quite intrigued. But the game seems to be buggy, or inconsistent in some ways. I know simulating so many items might be hard to process, but some strange behavior of music, the "Watch" option replays automatically but didn't initialize, and some nodes became black when hit but some don't. How the music generated was not clear either, a node stands for a tone? Or the music only continues when continuously hitting? They made this experience a bit confusing. Also by definition, you might want to make something controllable and can be predicted, but you introduced very clear randomness and strong initial value dependent in collisions, that makes your design intention a bit unclear. But it's a project with quite a potential!
It's a cool idea and very unique, since it allow the player the freedom to compose whatever they like. I've yet to create anything good from it, but I'm sure others will be able to. Solid work!
The idea is interesting, but the browser build runs quite poorly and is difficult to understand. With proper polish this could be something really neat!