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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #9 | 3.727 | 3.727 |
| Overall | #15 | 3.591 | 3.591 |
| Concept | #16 | 3.727 | 3.727 |
| Use of the Limitation | #23 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
| Presentation | #31 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Andy Lee
Software used
Unity
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Really fun and well-executed game! Great job!
Hi, thank you so much for your kind words! Thanks for playing!
Awesome job making a rhythm game!! This has always been something I've wanted to try as well.
Difficulty starts off a little high, but after a couple of minutes im shooting through.
The skies the limit, would be cool to ramp up difficulty slowly, with different songs requiring 1, then 2, or 3+ colors. Games like OSU! allow you use the keyboard to click, which could remove the restriction of 2 mouse buttons for your game should you expand it. And a customizable speed multiplier to space out the notes would be helpful too, as it starts to get cluttered and it's difficult to tell which note is next.
But I digress, I really enjoyed your entry!
Hey, thank you so much for your feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed your time playing it! I'll admit I haven't got nearly enough experience making beatmaps and the like, so finding where to place notes was a bit difficult. I was definitely planning on implementing keyboard input like OSU! does, and I'll probably release some system like that in the very near future. I realized sometimes the notes that seem further away end up moving and reaching the line first, which is something I'm a bit stumped on, but maybe the speed multiplier you mentioned would help. I'm not quite sure I'm understanding what you're getting at by "speed multiplier". Could you elaborate? Do you mean like the "offset" setting that many rhythm games have? Although, from my understanding, the offset changes all the notes, so that probably wouldn't be it. I'd love to learn more about it and hopefully I can implement it into the game!
Ahh in rhythm games on fast + more advanced stages, there are waaaay too many notes close together.
In Gitadora drums, sometimes you have to hit 16th note or 32th note drum rolls/fills at 140bpm, which would look like a solid line.
Speed multiplier would scale/spread the notes out. They would approach more quickly, but it'll be easier to distinguish the order of the notes due to the increased space between them.
Here's an example
He's playing a 4x speed, causing the notes to be 4x apart. If it was 1x, the song would be barely readable due to everything being so clumped together.
I forget if beatsaber has a speed multiplier option... But since you have the bonus of depth perception, and that sometimes blocks are occluded by others it may not be too useful in that game.
Ohhhh, I see what you mean. This is actually such a great idea! It should be relatively easy to implement as well. Thanks so much!
great game, graphics and music. But it was too challenging for me, its harder than a beat saber for sure. I wish it had a somewhat of tutorial lvl for noobs like me.
Hey, thanks for your feedback! I'm working on some more simple levels right now as I definitely went overboard with the difficulty.
What a neat mechanic! I am terrible at beat games generally, but with how this played, it was a delightful mix of two genres almost. It did feel a bit hard, especially once the music got going, but once again, beat games are not my cup of tea. The art was good for what you were going for.
Thanks for your feedback! I am working on balancing and it does seem pretty hard at certain points, so it probably isn't your lack of skill but rather me going overboard. I probably went a little too happy go lucky when placing notes. Thanks for playing!
The music is great. The combo count is a fun mechanic. It’s pretty difficult though. I think it would still be fun and slightly more accessible without the red/blue left/right mechanic. Using a single mouse button would still be challenging to get the timing and aim right.
Hey, thanks for your feedback! I was a little bit worried it was too challenging. Maybe if I made a difficulty setting where one had the left/right and one only had one button so that once you got the hang of it and wanted a harder challenge, you could switch to two buttons. What do you think?
Since you’ve got multiple songs, maybe the first song could use only one color, and then you could progress to using multiple colors on the more difficult songs.
Oh great idea! Thanks so much for your suggestion!
The Music and Art look and sound amazing, and the mechanic of shooting the doughnuts precisely felt super smooth. Main recommendation would be to turn up the sound effects for hitting a doughnut as to increase the want and satisfaction of shooting a beat correctly. I couldn't play into it too much since im terrible at rhythm games, but from what I've played its a great game!
Hey, thank you so much for your kind words! I will definitely look at the sound issue, as my main reason for not doing so was because the sound effects might be a distraction, but I see I might've lowered the volume too much. Thank you for giving this game a shot, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
That was fun! And I enjoyed the music too. The mechanics were tough to get the hang of at first, maybe because I was playing on a PC with a trackball for a mouse. Very cool take on the theme, and all around nice job.
If you can get this to work in WebGL, it would seem like a good match for that.
Hey, thanks for your feedback! I will definitely work on a WebGL port. I'm glad you enjoyed my game haha :)