gryph0n 2022-10-04 00:16
Love the concept, framing, and humor! I do wish I didnt have to kill cute lil penguins though.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → BeaT-Rex
By andreas-roschal, flonotone, bananabobbert, Lukski Lukilj and matthiase
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 13 | 4.39 | 58 | |
| Fun | 5 | 4.45 | 59 | |
| Innovation | 68 | 4.07 | 59 | |
| Theme | 75 | 4.27 | 59 | |
| Graphics | 192 | 4.20 | 59 | |
| Audio | 12 | 4.50 | 59 | |
| Humor | 154 | 3.75 | 56 | |
| Mood | 136 | 4.01 | 58 |
Love the concept, framing, and humor! I do wish I didnt have to kill cute lil penguins though.
Amazing work! Loved everything, especially the sound effects! The UI was super cool, loved the idea of having it be inside of a screen
I had a ton of fun playing this. Rhythm games are always something I love, and I liked how some of the powerups(I never got to see them all, unfortunately) added to the musical nature of the game. Fantastic job!
By the way, the UI is really charming.
Terrific game! I loved the art! The difficulty ramped up fast, but it was so fun!
Wow, really nice work here. I really like your interpretation of the theme, it's a perfect match. The audio is really awesome and in sync with all the gameplay and the nice UI timeline which display everything.
Super well polished game! I love it how this rhythm dictates the flow of the whole game. Simple but really nice graphics too!
Extremely fun good job really liked the music and the way the sword swings with the beat is really fun to time!
Super fun and cute game! Love the take on the game jam theme as well, and the way the menu was set up.
Super fun and well polished. Loved the combination with the theme and music tracks.
The music is amazing! Especially its progression, it makes it feel like things are heating up :) The aesthetic and graphics as well -- that booting animation is lovely and makes the game feel very polished. The volume slider is a nice touch.
The game is nicely balanced. It starts out pretty easy but doesn't stay that way too long.
I wish there was a way to get health other than through chests. I often found damage very difficult to avoid, so I was forced to take health instead of upgrades. This turns into a death spiral. However, it did make me feel like I was barely hanging on; this might not be the case if health was less of an issue.
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that was fun! what a cool idea. Though the lasers quickly got hard to manage around, I almost had to take HP every time I got the chest, maybe i'm just bad :( Maybe some variety to the beats would be nice, but it was really fun and addicting!
Great idea and really fun. Music was catchy and I liked the mechanism of attacking on the beat.
The music really sets the tone for the game and the shuffling creates this sense of drive. The atmosphere was super, super well done.
I think that having a healing option that passively regens, instead of having to "throw away" a full chest to heal would have been nice to have in the strategy. That way slip ups could be rewarded down the line if the player just worked harder to not get touched. That's just my "room for growth" comment though, I'm a player who prefers regen over no regen and that may not be the feel you wanted from this game. =) Regular one team heals just feel like a throwaway level up to me.
Thank you for the game though, I had to stop myself from playing it instead of just trying again, and again, and again.
Really fun. Well done!
OOH loved that TV effect !And that music ! it beats perfectly withthe gameplay !
A very neat entry full of potential ! Could definitly see it as a mobile game or a quick pc game almost as is. Great job !
So goofy, so good! Can't stop smiling while playing it.
Having the attacks help make the music is such a good idea! Nice twist on the vampire survivors formula. It took me a bit at the start to realize that I need to click the items I want from the chest, but that is just me being dumb :D. Good job!
Made it to floor 53! This could go on to become a classic for rhythm game enthusiasts. Overall, great game!
This is a nice entry, I do like vampire-survivor-esque games quite a bit, although I feel they are a bit overdone in LD as of late. This one has some real nice polish to it though and you managed to get a decent amount of upgrades to keep the combat interesting and fresh throughout! The music element also added a nice new spin to things. Very well made game
Made to the humble 41th room. Really clever idea. It's very simple yet well crafted. And there is a really great work on the music and sound effect to match the rhythm :) Great job ! I'll play it again !
Adorable game! Really nice game idea and the mood and overall game was really enjoyable!
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This game is SO good. What an amazing variation on the Vampire Survivors core loop! Y'all are really on to something here. I think if you keep working on this you could have a huge indie hit on your hands.
Love love love how each zone has its own music, and each weapon plays its own instrument.
Wonder what it would be like with additional mechanics like passive items, or the ability to customize when your attacks fire off in the sequence. A player could even make their sequence of attacks _sound_ the way they want it to, ignoring the strategic placement of things! Oh man and you could then export the sequence at the end to your hall of fame to play back another time. The possibilities are endless...
Please keep working on this! Had to call it quits after 171 rooms since the scaling never caught up to me, but that's just a minor balancing and content thing.
I really enjoyed this game! I didn't have enough complexity, I modified everything and it was relaxed. Nice work!
The timing mechanic is really cool, though not really my cup of tea.
Extremely fun! Love the way that the abilities line up with the music; it gives the whole thing a very unique feel.
Nice entry! Really like the musics. It become too easy in late game, but still got fun playing. All this waves of fireballs and stuff, cool! Screenshot6.png
Wow! Fantastic, please continue to develop this game. My favorite track was the spooky skeleton xylophone
Wow amazing game. For sure one of the best ones I've played so far, good job! :)
This was an absolutely outstanding game. Played all the way til I maxed everything out and REALLY got into the flow state of it. Would love to see a fleshed out full version of this with lots of different way to build your character, kinda plays like Vampire Survivors with with a real original hook that kept me going
Nice concept! For a genre that is over-represented in jam, this one adds a really cool twist! There's also enough variety in power-up to make several games feels different. :) It feels really great to have the music set the pace of the action, and hearing it evolve through the game. A really well managed dynamic soundtrack ! :ok_hand: The main downsides I saw was some difficult to read hit-box, and a lack of impactful feedback when getting hit. Both resulting with me taking a lot of damage without really realizing it. :p
Other than that, the art and music are pretty good. The framing around the screen and the button to launch the game are super sweet additions! Congrats for making such a cool entry.
Very fun game, I like it! :D It might be important later in the game, but in the beginning I wasn't really paying attention to the direction my cursor was pointing :D
Managed to get all the upgrades!
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I'm not sure I have anything bad to say about this game. Is a very solid entry. Maybe adding more type of ennemies could help, it feels quite boring after some time, but it's a jam game, and you have put A LOT OF WORK in this one, so it's unfair to ask for even more.
Good job!
Wow, awesome gameplay.
A very interesting take on the theme using a rhythm mechanic. I really like the difficulty progression, and I found myself looking forward to seeing what I was going to get in the chest at the end of each "stage". You had me engaged with the game the whole time. Very nice!
Holy cow, this was incredible! I was super impressed by the gameplay and music. When I started getting upgrades that added electricity or other effects and having those trigger to the beat was so fun. The UI was super cool and added to the feeling of the game as well. Great job!
Verrrrry fun! I had a really good time! I love the auto attacks to the music and the upgrade systems. If there were more enemies, more events and upgrades and things this could be a very successful game I feel like!
It feels like a full game. Very addicting and well polished.
wooow the quality of this game is outstanding and it's very fun to play, 10/10. The sounds of the cannons with the rythm were very satisfying. Games with upgrade are pretty adictive to me. Congratulations for this game, I hope it rank very high
Love it, played in on my stream!
Really fun game that would stand on its own outside of a jam setting. I loved the metal-lite music and the (I think) black sabbath reference on the bat level lol
Very complete feeling game! I think all the mechanics really work well together, and I love seeing a rhythm game take on the popular vampire survivor type games.
I loved the music, It was great how every level layered more in, and it was dependent on the enemy type. My favorite track was definitely the jungle.
I have no words!! This game is literally amazing to play and sooo funny!! Congratulations!!! Honestly! What an crazy and amazing creative idea.
The game is really cool.
I wish I knew what more of the powerups did, or had more time to think about the powerups. A couple of times I was choosing between icons that meant nothing to me and ended up not getting anything at all because the chest despawned just before I could click. On my first run I missed a few powerups and was pretty weak. In my second run I got a fireball, but blue and yellow were never offered. In my third run I got lighting and a lightning cooldown upgrade early, and with that I was able to live for a long time and get lots of powers and upgrades. There were a lot of icon combinations that were unclear to me: sword + rotate, sword + arrows, sword + sword, fireball + sword, blue + sword, blue + arrows, 3 fireballs, lightning bolt with diagonals, and so on. I'm guessing that some were damage upgrades and some were size upgrades, but each one was confusing the first time that I saw it. I thought that fireball + sword would make every sword attack shoot a fireball. I thought sword + sword would be a bigger sword but now I think it must have been damage instead.
The visual style is great, and I liked that audio changed with each zone while still having a core beat that helped with timing my own attacks and enemy attacks.
Gosh that was unexpectedly funny game to play! Also like the minimalistic pixel art! Love it!
Cute rhythm game! The music, the art and the gameplay were awesome! Great work! It was a bit hard for me to realize the patterns of all the enemies, so I was kinda "waving it arount", but it was fun too :)
Phenomenal game. Wish I could see a full version because this perfect 5/5. The music changing with each area, the upgradable skills, the bpm bar at the bottom showing the moves next. All combine together to make a perfect game. In terms of action-based games this is the best I have played in this LD and maybe one of the best rhythm games in a while.
Damn, a fully fledged game. Some teams barely justify their size, but you did a great job here. Also kudos for fighting the deeply rooted misconception that T-Rexes didn't use their tiny hands, latest research reveals growing amount of evidence that they forged and wielded two-handed swords.
I honestly got no complaints, everything fits perfectly.
Fun game. Loved the cute T-rex. Maxed out all my upgrades. trex.png