Some really clever ideas on display here, all presented in a very lovely way. Well done!
Play Little Nightmare
The Musick's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #6 | 4.050 | 4.050 |
| Audio | #16 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Fun Factor | #25 | 2.700 | 2.700 |
| Visuals | #27 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Is your entry a video game or a physical game?
video game
Was your game made solo or in a team?
solo
Did you use any third party assets?
no
Did you choose from one (or more) of the optional secondary themes?
yes... Winged (the enemies) and Dizzy (when you get exhausted)
Does your game contain any 18+ content?
no
Comments
Thanks for saying! I worked hard on that knowing not a lot of people would probably see it, but for me "feelings" are a part of the game. When I was a kid in the 80s I used to study my C64 manuals before I ever opened the game, and if you didn't have the manual there were some times when you just had to bash random keys and see if you could figure things out. Sometimes you just couldn't! One of my favorite games was Shogun (based on the same book as the currently popular Hulu series) but I didn't have the manual, and so to this day I have no idea what I was doing for all those hours of gameplay!
Lucky for you I included the story it was based on in the downloadable files!
As far as the controls, I tried to make it as easy to remember as possible, but I played on a keyboard and didn't get to try it with a controller. The concept I had in mind was that the arrow keys are the first half of the octave and the buttons were the second half of the octave. The order of notes on each of them from lowest to highest is the leftmost button, bottom-most button, rightmost button, and topmost button, but it may not have translated the way I wanted to controller format.
I'm glad you enjoyed it even though the controls were a bit rough to get used to!
9 days ago(+1)
Glad you enjoyed it! Your game is one of the ones I saw I've been most looking forward to getting to, based solely on the description, so I'll try it next.
Ah, I can see from the screenshot you did practice and then went to the orchestra and made 40 coins (you start with 50 and you have 90 in that screenshot). There is no play to the orchestra, it's part of the daytime management sim. You went, made money, and came back at the end of the day. When night fell the enemies attacked.
I can also see that all of your strings are broken there, and if you became exhausted that means you probably practiced too hard during the day and didn't sleep or repair your broken strings.
It looks like the game is working fine, you just weren't aware of what you were doing. In these old retro games, there were code limitations, so we couldn't put tutorial modes in... You just kind have to read the instructions or go it on your own and hope for the best.
Luckily, in the download there is a nice retro-style PDF manual that I worked hard on, so you can enjoy the game more by taking a look at that and getting the full 1980's game experience!
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