This is a really fun game! I spent way too long trying to get a highscore and I managed to get up to 98 using the combo movement glitch. Its really simple to pick up but has a really high skill ceiling which I enjoy a ton.
Only thing I really disliked was that the music got very repetitive when trying to grind for a highscore.
Thank you so much! 98? Damn that’s really high. With the last build I think I only managed to reach 80 something. I’m super glad you managed to notice the glitch cough feature. Did you found it by playing?
Regarding the music. It was my first time producing and after a while of play testing I also started noticing the repetition, but as my first time I really wasn’t sure how to improve. I’ll just have to practice more, I guess. Do you have any suggestions? Would maybe increase the length of the music before it looping around help?
I honestly only found it cause I saw you talking about it in here. Before that my strategy was to either go left or right once beside one of the goals and just mash the shoot button. Shooting things tends to preserve more momentum which can keep you bouncing longer.
For the music typically you want to make a song last for 2-3 minutes before looping. Probably even up to 5-7 if its the only track used for the game and you're going for a more ambient style. It looks like you've got an ostinato playing throughout the entire song which is nice(I tend to overuse them a bunch in my songs myself). Typically when you use an ostinato though you want to have a lot of things change about the song at different moments and take the focus away from it to make it seem like something completely new. As an example of this I've got one I the songs I composed for this jam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xr-gif00Ks. I've got a piano pattern playing in the background through the entire piece but it only takes the focus at different parts of the song and the rest of the time I've got something else playing to develop the piece. I've also got some slight variations on the ostinato to help it become less stale while still keeping the same general pattern. As an example of someone else using them like this, there's most of Toby Fox's songs. A good one where you can clearly hear it is bonetrousle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAiUtWZ4xY
If you ever wanna talk about more things related to music feel free to message me
Wow, thank you for the advise! Regarding music I’m a complete beginner and have a tone to learn. For this jam I mostly bashed something together by random and ticked until it sounded something like game’s music.
After hearing the song you made I think I get your point. Your’s is almost several different styles of the same music spread out.
Music making is an art with a lot of depth in it and my understanding of it merely scratched the surface. But I’m trying to work, it isn’t much, but its honest work.
Thank you very much for the advise and guidance :D!
