Love seeing a rhythm game in a speed run competition lol, very clever! Super clean UI too, nice work. I thought hexagons was pretty good and mostly fun but was iffy on the others, seeing rush e in there which Iām at least aware of I donāt know how much is original compositions vs reference? A lot of it was musically pretty unrecognizable for me, and I definitely felt myself wishing it was actually just a rhythm gameā¦ for me at least I found it hard to sort of get into the groove with the songs. I see you are actually calculating our inputted bpm, I wonder how it would be to have a backing track that loosely follows it?
As it is I feel like Iām relying entirely on visuals for something that aesthetically is telling me I should be relying on my ears, I think thereās something about a steady tempo that makes the hand eye coordination lock in better. And then I feel like thereās something that didnāt work for me about DFJK as the controls specifically, maybe, in that Iām seeing four colored blobs, and my brainās having to do a couple layers of translating to get from that to the actual finger pressings instead of falling into a flow. I wonder if having the letters on the dots wouldāve felt easier than having them only down on the bottom of the screen. I bet hooking it up to a midi pad controller like my Maschine would be a lot more tactile and fun than having to unergonomically repeatedly type kebyoard notes, which I suppose if I was dedicated enough to do I could set upā¦ Some kind of rebindable option or controller support wouldāve been appreciated (unless they were present and I missed it!)
Outside of my own personal nitpicks around these types of games as a professional musician, I suspect this could be a really fun speed game for people it clicks with and probably makes for a decent watch, assuming theyāre not playing on Silent. Also really liked the Meows as a sound option. I donāt mean to come across as negative if I did, I think this is really well executed over all :)