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Bach In Time's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Music/Sound | #1 | 4.607 | 4.607 |
| Overall | #31 | 3.836 | 3.836 |
| Fun/Design | #47 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Graphics/Animation | #58 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Technical Implementation | #69 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Theme/Limitation | #173 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game utilize the limitation and theme?
You go There (Bach in Time) and come Bach to 2020 by collecting musical history vocabulary terms.
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Pair
You and one other jammer
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We have credited all assets used in the game including our own name(s) or team name(s)
All original game code and original assets were made during the jam period
The game does not include NSFW or hateful content
The game works on the web or as a Windows 10 download
We have answered all submission questions honestly and completely
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I love the art style and the music. The idea is also great, but I struggeled in the bach level. It's very hard. I suggest you add some easier levels before this one :)
Really love the music and the style a lot. Laughed out loud at the time wizard. Those aspects are really fun!
I don't type well without looking at the keyboard so i couldn't keep up very well, and the first level starts off really easy and suddenly gets much more difficult, definitely too difficult for me.
Maybe it's because i was very bad at the game and couldn't unlock any, but it doesn't look like the collectibles had any mechanical impact. I'm not sure what it could be in this game so i don't blame you though!
I really did like the idea for this game and think that it's very cool. I however think there's an issue with the game when you decide to replay it. I think it causes the Bach song to play halfway through or something along those lines. I know that many other people have brought this up, but like to write my reviews before seeing what everybody else commented.
I however did think it was a pretty fun concept, and on the first run, thought it was very cool! I'm sure you are very busy most of the week so the fact that you finished something and got it in that's fun is amazing! Great Job indeed.
Haha as a classical music fan, this is very pleasing to see. I love the music and the visuals, including the whole absurdity of it all plus the voice acting. Good sense of humor.
It's very short, which makes sense for a game jam, so I went to play it twice but the music didn't play anymore, only the keyboard notes. Still though, very enjoyable. I like it.
Please check out my submission if you have the time!
Thank you! It was a lot of fun composing in the different styles. I have to go back after the jam and find out where that pesky bug is. Thank you so much for playing and the feedback. I'll go check out your game now : )!
The sounds played when typing letters are a bit random. I'm guessing they depend on which letters they are, but it would have been fun to be playing music with them. I think I once typed a wrong letter simply because I saw the start of a word and didn't wait to see the end and just guessed, and I can see someone else was having trouble keeping up... Perhaps there could be options for different speeds, or the new letters could show up slightly faster or slower depending on how many untyped characters were already on screen (unless you already have such a system in place and it's just very subtle).
I'm not sure what it would have been like if there were a lot more levels, but when playing games to rate them, it's nice when they're short, so I can get to try more of them. And for the short time it took me to beat it, this one was pretty fun. One nitpick that's probably not gonna affect the score I give the game, but I might as well mention it, I prefer that games show text on screen if they have voice acting, I had turned the audio in my headphones a bit down when playing another game, and quickly had to turn it up to hear what the wizard was saying. Showing the text on screen probably wouldn't have been hard, but I guess you weren't thinking of Beethoven when you made those cutscenes.
Lol at the Beethoven joke. Thank you for the advice, I agree totally that I should add subtitles or at least the option for them. The game unfortunately bugs out sometimes on the browsers because the bug intermittently appears we didn't catch it during the short playtesting we were able to do. The notes should play out an organ solo in the first level and a guitar solo in the second level. It's possible they sounded random because of that bug messing it up. I'm eventually hoping to release a starter level and maybe a harder level after the bootles. Thank you so much for playing and giving me such helpful feedback!
It is a great game, i would definetively love some more levels, the beatles level was really good.
Feel free to check out my game, it will mean a lot to me
I'm hoping to add a couple more levels in time. Thank you so much for playing!!!
Great idea and implementation, the introduction got me right on. But for me it was too hard. Maybe a lower difficulty for a Jam would have been better.
I definitely think your right and I should have made at least the first level a lot easier. Thank you for playing our game : )!
Maybe an easy mode where you have less different buttons. Like in a game to learn typing. There you start with few different keys and the other keys are added level after level
I really liked the music for this game. The game itself was a lot of fun to play, although it did get very difficult early on. Also, the voice acting was hilarious. Overall, great work on this!
Thank you so much!!!! It was so fun to compose and voice act this. I think I'm going to go back and make an easier level so it's not so extreme at the beginning. Thank you for playing : )!
amazing game, I absolutely loved the Voice Acting
Hahaha thank you so much. I had so much fun voicing it!!!
In one word - WOW, this game made me laugh before I smashed my keyboard ;-)
if you want to check my game too it will be amazing
Hahaha thank you. The difficulty is super aggro lol. I will go check out your game right now!
Great concept! Very satisfying when you type everything correctly! I would like to see more animations and effect.
Great entry, well done!
We were working right up until 10 minutes before school on the day of the deadline and I didn't get to add everything we planned. I can't wait to go back after the jam and add in some more polish to this. Thank you for playing and for the feedback!
The time wizard definitely gave me a good chuckle! Great unique concept. I'm a huge OSU fan so you know I had to keep retrying to try and get that perfect score ;) Great work
Oh my goodness I've never seen that game. Thank you for sharing it, it looks so fun! I've been so obsessed with music games lately. Thank you so much for playing our game and for the feedback!
As a musician I instantly clicked just because is BACH :)
HAHAHA that was fun, your game is really comic.
Check out mine and tell what do you think! :D
I'm glad you enjoyed it thank you! I just checked out yours it was really fun! I love your art style!
Thanks!! :D
I love the art and the voice and the zaniness and how it is completely unlike the other entries. All it needs is a slower ramp up in difficulty. It's way too hard way too fast.
Thank you! Yeah we went a bit overboard with the difficulty ramp on this one. I want to eventually make an easier level before bach and a REALLY hard one after the Bootles. Thank you for playing our game : )!
Wow, what a blast! I'm a sucker for original music in games. For me, this was an easy perfect score all around. I'm really terrible with typing, but I still got to enjoy the original songs and your unique and hilarious twist on the theme. It's rare you find an edutainment game in a jam and I think you just knocked it out of the park. Thanks so much for making this!
Thank you! It means a lot that it was still fun even if it was edutaining. I had so much fun composing that music, and my friend had a blast making the weird characters. Thank you so much for the kind words, I can't wait to check out your next game!
I finished playing the game 10 minutes ago and I'm still laughing about the time wizard. The whole game reminded me of an episode of Home Movies with Brendan Small. The music was super on point too.
All depends on the direction you're going for but it'd be nice if the word you're about to type out was at the top of the screen or hinted at in some way.
Either way, I absolutely loved it! Well done.
Thank you so much!! It's such a compliment to be compared to that style. I will let the artist know. Thank you for the compliment on the music also, it was so fun to compose for this. Also that is a great suggestion for having the word on the screen. It would really help on some of the bigger terms to see what you are working towards. Thank you , I'm going to add that in when we eventually update it.
Really enjoyed the game! the art was really cool :) well done!
Thank you so much! We're glad you enjoyed it : )!
I love the concept! I didn't expect a rhythm AND a typing game in this jam, but I wasn't dissapointed! The art is also pretty unique, and I like how it looks. One thing of note however, during the "Bootles" era, some of the letters had leftover white at the top right (might want to look into that). Other than that, really liked the game! It's short, simple, and fun! If you have the time, I'd also appreciate it if you checked out our game as well!
Thank you so much! Thank you for the note, I'm putting it on the list to fix to get rid of those extra pixels after the game jam is over. I'm going to go check out your game right now. Thank you for playing ours : )!
Awesome game! I collected all the terms. Loved the art and concept-- Great job!!
Thank you so much!! I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
Love the opening and the art! i did find the game fairly difficult to be honest but overall it was very fun! Great work!
It would mean a lot if you could check out my Jam submission if you get the chance. Thanks!
Thank you for the kind words! I would love to check it out, I'll go do that now! Thanks for playing our game!