Absolutely love the atmosphere you created! The gameplay felt a bit removed from the story built up by the intro, but I would have loved a game based on just the intro
I would love to be able to skip through the intro dialogue or speed it up
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Keep my heart beating's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #1 | 4.656 | 4.656 |
| Music | #5 | 4.188 | 4.188 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.744 | 3.744 |
| Art | #16 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Fun | #50 | 2.969 | 2.969 |
| Gameplay | #58 | 2.906 | 2.906 |
Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The art is amazing! The gameplay is very simple but I think it adds a lot to the death and mysterious vibe going on. Great job!
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Synth RiderThe music is really good, I especially like how the squeezing note sounds very natural in the key. I also love the piano line in the first song. The gameplay is a bit repetitive but honestly the great music makes its worthwhile. Great job!
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1-beat PacmanI love the vibe in this game, very neat! Art and the story are nice too! Nice work making this :]
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Break the RocksThis is a very polished game from sounds effect, music, art and story I liked how it was done by one dev and still could handle all the game sides great job.
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Heart Beat RushI was a unsure if I have to press Early or Exactly or After the beat. The outcome feedback audios are just ding and louder ding. The sprite animation also isn't enough to convince me that I've done it correctly. And without a clear reason, I failed once.
But my second play was a success. I think I know how the timing works.
I know that the game is trying to keep the immersion with all the visual and audio feedbacks, but for me it isn't Match Between the System and the Real World much.
However, the story isn't very bad. Well done.
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GiantaFoodGame's pretty interesting, i liked the atmosphere the whole time and the story was interesting enough to keep me going. The game got a tad repetitive with the beat always being 4/4, though i liked the messing with the tempo on that last song!
also there's a single pixel on the left side on one of the squeezing frames i thought I'd let you know
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Heart BeatingI really like how this one gets the theme just right, and a bit more so.
The "beat"ing heart first. And squeezing it to the beat... Double beat. Clever!
I'll be coming back to this one, to try again, since I failed. And I want to see what happens if I succeed.
Nicely done!
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Unbeaten 1bitThis dialogue speed was annoying for me. The actual game was really nice though. Good music/feeling when squeezing that heart.
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Raging PlantsI really like the music and the graphic style, and you nailed the theme perfectly. I think it would be great if the intro could be skipped and if there were more feedback to show whether you hit the rhythm correctly. Really nice game!
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Echo CrashMesmerizing. It has a huge philosophical take works really well.
The music is increadibly soothing to the ears, pleasant to hear and it gets even more satisfying with the layers that gets added.
Huge problem though : the game stared into my soul and my soul stared back… :D
Joke apart, I just wished the dialogues were faster or that we could increase the speed and also that pumping too hard has consequences too (probably the same as not pumping).
Loved the experience.
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The Beat BusIt's a bit of a pity that one cannot speed up the dialog. This way the introductions takes quite "long" although it obviously doesn't. Other than that: Theme fits a 100%, art style (although there is not much to see, is amazing and music just hits the BEAT ;D Really good work!
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NO2 EscapeReally nice! but there is a stray pixel at the heart beating animation... but the soundtrack was really good and it was really enjoyable and uniqe!
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Duck SlashThis is so cool! First of all it looks amazing and the context is intruiging. I think it's such a good idea, the "boring" task of sitting alone with the heart in the dark just thinking. Puts the player really in the shoes of the maincharacter, wanting to stop, but finding the discipline somewhere to keep the heart beating. (I personally would just put a timer on 30 min and let the player sit there, without anything happening to really lean in on this feeling, but maybe I'm just mean like that.)
Really cool game!
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Somewhere in the middle.the music was so smooth. sometimes i felt like the textbox conversations overstayed their welcome a bit, whether due to slow text animations or just a bit too much dialogue, but the opening scene with the eye was an attention grabber for sure. i really enjoyed just sitting back and vibing to the music while i kept the heart pumping lol.
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Steady Chase
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