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A jam submission

Harmonic HeightsView game page

You've been hired to help build the city's new music district only to discover its unusual construction requirements.
Submitted by joshpinto6 — 2 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#22833.3503.350
Style#26853.1833.183
Overall#32082.9672.967
Enjoyment#45732.3672.367

Ranked from 60 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player builds houses by playing keys on a piano. The new neighborhood is being built to musical scales.

Development Time

96 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
asset sources: kenney.nl (input icons), axulart (palette), nathan hoad (dialogue manager), roland eigelsreiter (midi parser), marek belski (game menu templates), somepx (fonts)

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Submitted (2 edits)

a rhythm game where you have to press notes to build cute houses is the coolest idea ever. I did have some issues, like the “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” level not working, and a very, very specific one where the “ [ “ , “ ] “ and “ = “ keys didn’t work for me because my keyboard has a different layout based on my language (changing the keyboard layout to English still doesn’t fix the “=” key)

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for playing! I'll probably fix the song issue and add options for keyboard mapping in a future update!

Submitted

Wow I love this :D Taking the theme to mean musical scale and having a guy build along is so creative :) For me the art style is also very nostaglic and comforting. Amazing work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing!

Submitted

yo this is really cool!! some of the levels were def pretty tough lol (68% on the wellerman,,, welp).  the scope of the project is insane you have so many songs up here for 96 hours.  My bit of critique is that the notes spawn too low, and are kind of tough to react to.  maybe have them spawn higher up so you can react better?

Developer

Thanks so much for playing! I definitely wanted to make the game a bit easier but didn't get the time. I'll probably update after the jam with more songs and better difficulty progression though.

Submitted

cool piano simulation game!

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

This is really hard for me lol. But i enjoy the difficulty! Thanks for making this!

Developer

Thanks so much for playing! I'll probably lower the difficulty after the jam voting ends but feedback like this is super helpful!

Submitted

Just that I'm really bad in instruments lol. or maybe a keyboard keyborad is not the best way? let me think...maybe not in the keys of one row. Instead use keys like qweasd uiojkl ?

Submitted

Awesome art style and color palette! Really creative take on the theme! Awesome job!

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

I like this

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

I like this

Submitted

Fun idea!
At first I didn't understand the Level Selector, haha! It was too dark and it lack contrast, but good job

Developer

Thanks for playing! I hadn't customized the levels selector from Godot UI defaults but maybe that means I should lol.

Submitted

This game made me learn I suck at music related things. Neat idea, however!

Developer

Thanks so much for playing!

Submitted

IM KIND OF BAD AT PLAYING MUSIC BUT,,,, I LIKE TO HIT THINGS WITH A HAMMER SO ITS AWESOME

Developer

Thank you! The hammer is actually the pixel art asset I'm most proud of :P

Submitted

You took the "scale" theme in a cool direction! The controls are quite hard, but the game is fun once you get the hang of it. The dialogue is pretty funny. Had a nice time playing this!

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for playing! I'll try to make the difficulty progression easier in a future update!

Submitted

Pretty neat seeing a rhythm game in a jam, just too bad I'm not very good at them lol. Kudos

Developer

Thanks so much for playing! I really admire your games/art style so it was cool to see your submission as well!

Submitted

So I like the concept, and I'm being nitpicky even though it's a jam game, but... the notes played on the keyboard had very little (other than kinda rhythm) to do with the melody being played, and then not to mention the keys made a sound for the key being played, but that was played underneath the synth beep melody, which almost all the time was a completely different note which created this dissonant clash whilst I played, which was highly distracting haha. Overall, I couldn't find a way to ignore the weird note clashes, but playing piano keyboard for a rhythm game is a fun idea!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing/leaving feedback! Unfortuately the sync issues between the music and note blocks was an issue I was only able to resolve after the jam deadline but something I definitely will push a fix for after voting ends.

Submitted

Ah damn! That's such a shame :c I'm glad you've got a fix ready though!

Submitted

I did not do very well at all, but I had fun! Nice idea, felt really unique.

Developer

Thanks for playing/leaving feedback! I'll try to make the game a bit easier (especially in the beginning) after the jam concludes

Submitted

I did not do very well at all, but I had fun! Nice idea, felt really unique.

Submitted

Fun little game. I'm always a fan of rythm games, and I like what you did here. I'm not a piano player, so I utterly sucked at the game, but that doesn't matter. It was kind of a tease to have the Wii music at the menu but not having it included in the game, tho :P

Developer

Thanks so much for playing! The wii menu theme probably would have been really challenging but it might make an appearance in a future release of the game ;)

Submitted

This was a fun idea! I had a hard time with the controls, but it was well made with a very cute style!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely be sure to try to make the controls easier in a future update.

Submitted

I really enjoyed the game!! Love the rhythm aspect and how you took the theme quite literally loool - I will say I think having the piano notes play while the music is playing can be quite jarring as they're different notes. Overall, great game!!

Developer

Thanks for playing! The notes being off-sync is actually  a bug lol but I managed to find a fix just after the deadline passed.

Submitted

I really love this interpretation of the theme, the whole game is really creative! I will say though that I found myself getting a little frustrated at the game as it was just a little too much all at once making it hard to focus in and play the notes. I feel like this game would be a lot easier too for someone who knows how to type, but I unfortunately do not lmfao. Overall this is a great game though, as I said the art/theming/game idea are all really creative and I think you did a great job :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing the game! I definitely want to address the difficulty level in a future update though...

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