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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #608 | 3.725 | 3.725 |
| Overall | #791 | 3.739 | 3.739 |
| Style | #980 | 3.882 | 3.882 |
| Creativity | #1453 | 3.608 | 3.608 |
Ranked from 51 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?
In Cacofonia, the player builds a tower where each level represents a musical note in the C Major scale. Tower levels spawn units whose attack sounds correspond to their given note. Therefore, the tower is literally built to the tune of the C Major scale.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
ALL assets and programming created manually during jam.
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Comments
Nice tower defense game, it felt a bit too slow at the start, from the coin gain to the wave speed, but you get used to it, although the archers and red guys were always more useful than upgrading unfortunately. But it was very fun, the musical sound effects were a nice touch, wished I knew a little bit more about music so I could have understood the reference, great game!
That was really fun! It's like a full game rather than a jam game! Visuals, sounds, interpretation of the theme, learning curve everyhing was in place. I really liked it! I couldn't finish the game fully yet but I will definitely try again after playing some more jam games. Well done!
Very creative interpretation of the theme. The mechanic side is also interesting, minions that come back returning your gold is very smart and renders good moments of decision making. Nice game!
Love the art style! A very unique tower defense, I liked that the units get recycled after each round, letting me try out different combinations. A really fun take on the theme!
What a pleasant original TD style game. Obviously the soundFX wins the awards here. Very well made and the gameplay is good too. I'm sure this could go on to be developed into a very successful game. Congrats.
Really fun game, I loved how the music was such a big part of the game and the art is brilliant
Cute animations and art style, and super duper relaxing sound design. A unique, literal take on the theme that I love! I accidentally bought a tower upgrade a couple times when I meant to buy a new unit, maybe a better way to purchase would be more user friendly? Other than that it's a super cool idea, and really well made for the time we had!
Made it to wave 7, those big guys are hard to deal with!
This was very nice. I liked how seamless the mechanics fit together and how immediately intuitive the controls were. I didn't need a tutorial or anything I just... started playing!
Very fun and all-around enjoyable experience!
Cool idea! I do sort of wish that you could upgrade the tower in-between rounds and that you could direct the guys to fight a specific enemy, it's kind of frustrating when you've got one bashing your tower and they're all fighting other things.
I concur with the second point, Right now the strategy is to have stuff saved up to counter people who get through defenses. They always target the closest matching enemy and someone coming out of the tower's closest enemy will be the one of that color. It's not a perfect solution however.
Actually really fun and well executed ! The gun pink guys are OP
As a fellow Tower Defense game jamer, your game is really nicely polished and the art direction is really great ! Does upgrading the tower only gives you differents colored unit that work better against the matching type or are they just stronger ?
Anyway good game !
Same colored units are super effective but they also have different stats! green for example has higher speed and figher rate but lower health. If you put them in a pack they are very powerful. Yellow also has a bow so it gets a longer range, meaning you need less of them on the map since they are less likely to die quickly.
what a cute and fun tower defense, i had a lo of fun!! :)
Really fun and well presented tower defense, the music and the sound effects are top notch and very satisfying once you get a few different units going at once!
This game is really nice to the ear! And the gameplay and visuals are quite good too. I just would improve the enemy target selection, because sometimes my unit would run away from an enemy hitting the tower lol
Overall you did a great job :)
The different units and animations and sounds were all so so lovely! Especially the reference to a musical scale is an insanely creative take on the theme that I hadn't seen until now.
It was a bit opaque how I acquired new funds and what the differently-colored health bars meant, but apart from that, the game felt lovely and polished. Also, the quit button being "im 2 scared" and just the language of this entire package was funny and adorable :3
Really fun addictive game with the touch of using the music scale as a defend tower~ love the art too!
cool fortress defense game!
Beautiful and simple, I loved it! Well done. Although i perceive like the music is more the core of the game that the actual Scale Theme, but it doesn't matter in the end.
thank you! The music is the core of the game! You are building a musical scale throughout the game!
This game is addicting! Had a lot of fun defending my tower, but the little green guy is too weak compared to yellow and red.
We nerfed him last minute, very fair BUT he has a much faster attack rate than yellow and red, so if you manage to spawn 2 or 3 simultaneously then they can kill without getting hit! Nothing can stop them if they are in a pack