Poure Boris, His perfomanse was a failure :D
Fun game, Boris can play better than I :)
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Boris' Big Day's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #9 | 4.348 | 4.348 |
| Game Design | #100 | 3.870 | 3.870 |
| Fun | #125 | 3.783 | 3.783 |
| Overall | #131 | 3.721 | 3.721 |
| Innovation | #157 | 3.696 | 3.696 |
| Graphics | #245 | 3.804 | 3.804 |
| Theme | #982 | 2.826 | 2.826 |
Ranked from 46 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
You have to help Boris succeed with his piano performance by collecting green notes and encouraging him with kind words, while also avoiding foul notes that negatively affect his performance! Only through teamwork and friendship can you succeed! :)
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
All assets are made by me, including sound and sprites.
Comments
Fun and challenging game!
Visuals were great and worked well during gameplay. As someone who is colorblind your shades of red and green worked great for me. Boris looks great!
Big props to the sound and music! Kept me going and excited to try and finish the game. As another user mentioned, having some indication of progression would be nice, as I also thought it was an infinite game.
Gameplay was pretty solid. I love this balancing act of keeping the audience happy while also retrieving words of encouragement to keep the ever-increasing stress levels down. Without having the two, I think the game wouldn't have been as challenging (and depending who the player is, not as fun).
I did find myself getting close to the words of encouragement and hitting spacebar, but not registering the hit. Of course, I may not have been close enough to it. Is there a reason for needing to hit spacebar to get the words of encouragement? Was this to add variety to the gameplay?
I did wish player movement was slightly faster compared to the notes. Seeing a green note pass me and trying to chase it upward proved to be hopeless. It looks like this is something you noticed as well based on other comments, and I think it's definitely worth trying to tweak.
Overall great job!
If you happen to have someone to play a local co-op with, check out my game for an asymmetric gameplay experience.
I'm glad you liked it! :)
The reasons I chose to make the player have to hit spacebar to collect the wordboxes are twofold:
- As you said, it brings a bit of variety to the gameplay apart from movement
- It's an active action (namely speaking), and I wanted to represent that with a separate button press
If the collection is not getting detected it might be a collider issue, I'll look into it. In the meantime, though, I can tell you that the game checks for the spacebar being held down, not for it being pressed. So you could theoretically play the entire game with the spacebar held down, or more realistically, hold it down a bit before you reach the wordbox. That might help. :)
As you say, player speed could use a boost and a progress bar would be nice. It's in my list of planned fixes.
Thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback!
3 years ago(+1)
Forgot to put a hint in during the opening dialogue as to what to do when first gaining control of the player. I'll definitely try making the intro more clear after the ratings are over, but until then all people can really do is trial and error. I value any feedback I can get, though!
Also, the context for how it fits the theme can be seen in the intro dialogue or summarized in the description of the game. Thanks for playing!
3 years ago(+1)
Good idea, should be easily implemented. I'll look into it when ratings are over! Thanks for playing! :)
I'm sorry to hear that. I've had a lot of people saying it's difficult, but when you're the one making the game you eventually know it like the back of your hand which makes play testing really hard. I have a lot of things I want to fix after the ratings are over and I can edit again, and implementing difficulty modes might be something I could see to. I'm glad you liked the concept though. Thanks for the feedback! :)
The hands are currently running on static animations that just loop over and over again. Since the notes are randomized and are spawned pretty fast it would probably make the hands really janky if I pulled them towards where the notes appear. I was however originally planning on integrating a midi system where the notes being player are the actual notes being played in the song. It made it a bit too easy, but I might be able to do something with it in the future that could possibly support your idea of moving the hands appropriately.
In any case, thanks for playing and I'm glad you liked it! :)
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