| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Story/Writing | #5 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
| Audio | #10 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Concept | #11 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Challenge | #19 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Visuals | #20 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
| Use of Theme | #21 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Gameplay | #26 | 3.361 | 3.361 |
Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Members
Aeon, Anumania, frogmask, Jacoder23, jamie
woah, thanks for including it in your video! sub is yours my friend
tutorials and difficulty are absolutely where we messed up the most, mostly my fault since i made the map for ddr portion all in one very criminal sitting. at the very end we were pushing to get something that would tell ya the controls ingame but just missed it
the "impossible to truly lose/die" feature may have been the best idea we had the entire time, cannot imagine what would happen if we just gated progress to you happening to be very good at three distinct gameplay styles
thanks for playing!
cdi reference was originally test dialogue but we just couldn't let go of it when it was approaching the deadline. same with the slightly hidden morshu in the racetrack and we regret nothing
glad ya liked the game though, minigames seemed to be a bit polarizing mostly due to difficulty. fitting them all in was tough but since sleep isn't real and gamemaker likes jams we made it through
stepmania clone i wish i coulda tested on a dance mat, but mine broke down a while ago. to compensate i gave it about a thousand controller mappings so you can use any part of the thing to hit notes. i'm pretty sure windows calls dance mats controllers?
might be functional but you would be hard pressed to find somebody who can clear most of the stuff there on one. godspeed and thank you for checking it out
thanks for trying it out, rhythm game shouldn't have ended up as hard as it was unfortunately. story was that i was like "hey everybody's playing friday night funkin i can probably make it around that difficulty so its good for everybody" but i hadn't actually played friday night funkin in a while and sorely overestimated its difficulty
this jam, our goal was just to make something finished. every other jam we have had to cut everything short because we spent too long trying to make fun, or make it polished, so this jam we only thought about finishing the game. unfortunately, as you have said, that came at the drawback of fun, hopefully our skills will improve and we can make something funner or more polished next jam. Many thanks for giving our game a play and giving us feedback!
We made the game in gamemaker, which doesnt have very good 3d support, and internally the game is still entirely 2d but with a 3d camera, and most objects with billboard drawing code. the internal resolution of the minigame set to 320x200, and the zfar set to really low. i think theres only one sprite with a hardcoded direction and thats the finish line. past that, gamemaker handles most of the brain hurting 3d math with matricies and such.
Glad you enjoyed our game!
that 3d was a gamble, we were ready to throw it away for tetris at any time if it decided to start hating us but somehow we got it working well enough to keep
what, didn't enjoy the nuke that takes up 70% of the playing field? personally, fujiyama volcano is my favorite spellcard (im very sorry)
sorry about the speed on the ddr portion, i meant to turn it down after testing but forgot as the deadline approached. as for the turning, you can press shift to drift and turn way more tightly, but there's nothing that explains this ingame. oops
i put all the instructions in the readme, but ran out of time to put anything in the game itself.
thanks for playing! (one day i will release a jam game with balanced difficulty)
Phantasmal Pixel Pirouette (PPP) is pretty fun. It suffers from a few major flaws that really hindered the enjoyment I felt but its a game-jam game, those things are practically unavoidable. Since I've nothing better to do, (I do, I'm just procrastinating.) I thought I'd dive into each game and what they're made of.
The first Game: Rock Paper Scissors 2 (electric boogaloo)
Controls: Z to shoot, shift to focus, arrow keys to move.
Its a pretty standard Danmaku Shmup with a twist: You move really, really slow. You thought Yuuka in POFV was slow? Well, you're right, but the PC in this game is even slower, with focus moving you at pixel speed. Thankfully the bullets are pretty slow too and with a little foresight you should be able to get by. Except for the last spell card; that one's a safe spot one.
Overall, pretty fun. The slow movement is annoying but it achieves what it set out to do; anyways, this is only the first of three.
The second Game: I can't believe its not DDR!
Controls: Arrow keys. YOU are on the left screen.
Its DDR! What else is there to say? …Well, for one the input lag is pretty rough, you're better off pressing to the music rather than what you see on the screen, and HOLY DUNG!
Overall, blisteringly hard, but the music bops and its still pretty fun mashing.
Finally, the Last and Third Game: Ultimate California Driver 1964
A pretty standard racing game, you drive and drift past checkpoints in order to make it around the course and the lap. Probably the game I had the most fun with. Its pretty bare-bones but for something made in such a short time its really enjoyable. I even made it out of the border once when I was messing around.
Fun fact: The course you race on is the background of RPS2. Its little details like this that I really enjoy.
Overall, Fun. Nothing more to say about it.
Conclusion: Its a really well made game considering it was made in 3-Days. The amount of content in it is staggering, and while there are problems, it was still pretty fun. 4/5.
woah, thanks for the super-thorough review!
you mentioned the character moves really slowly in the danmaku portion and there is input lag on the second portion, i think it's a performance thing. works decently for me, but we threw a bunch of stuff together but didn't think about how it would run.
glad you liked it!
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