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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #107 | 4.179 | 4.179 |
| Artwork | #348 | 4.328 | 4.328 |
| Narrative | #585 | 3.582 | 3.582 |
| Creativity | #1692 | 3.806 | 3.806 |
| Enjoyment | #1942 | 3.403 | 3.403 |
Ranked from 67 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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really novel game idea, haven't seen it through the jam yet! could definitely have a stronger sense of progression. also make it clear how berries are gained from the actions of the player. enjoyed it though, what an interesting idea! well done!
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We did make the choice to hide the berry mechanics from the player to encourage play as apposed to optimisation, however seems to be a running theme in the feedback so will look to add it in if we develop further :)
Am not much of a music guy but this is fun and interesting! Great art style and cool take too. Great job!
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We used a d major pentatonic scale so hopefully any notes you threw together should have sounded good :)
If you like the art check out the demo of Squarepinski on steam; our artist did all the art for it and it's a similar vibe.
Super fun experience, great art style and immediately engaging! Could be cool to have some instruments be bought with points, to help the sense of progression. Really enjoyed it, and could see it being really fleshed out to have you build and manage a whole festival!
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We had to cut so much content as the programming only started to fall into place on literally the last day 😅 instrument upgrades, food/merch tents, rocker Vs raver Vs hippie mechanics etc etc
Still, really happy with what we did get done! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Pretty shure this unlocked a new hyperfocus in music prod :>
What better reason to produce music other than for hundreds of forest critters? :)
Nice game! I absolutely love how cute the characters looks! The game manages to be fun, even for people that don't know much about music, had some issues with placing, and especially removing notes. Great work!
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So many bugs as we updated it about five times in the last hour... Still glad you managed to play! We used a d major pentatonic scale to make it theoretically only make tunes that 'worked'. :)
This was very cute! I enjoyed the music aspect of the game. Probably enjoyed it a bit too much that I forgot to put up the tents.
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Ah music doesn't need tents. Just a a big open field and vibes 😎 Hope you still managed to pay that NAN tax!
Such a cute little game and you really made it easy for someone like me who has no idea how to write music to make something that sounded ok! Loved the little animal characters and the writing as well, nice work :)
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We really tried to structure it to be cosy and accessible so really nice to hear your comments :D If you really liked the art check out Squarepinski on Steam for a fuller cosy puzzle game with the same artist :)
I really like the concept of a game centered around creating music, and I was really impressed by all the different instruments to play with. Art was really charming too. Awesome job
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We had a whole backlog of instruments to add in but each one had to be manually wired in with 4 different lengths for each note (28 bist of code for each one) so we cut them to save time.
If you like the art check our Squarepinski on Steam for more from our excellent artist :)
I really liked the vibe of it and had a lot of fun throwing a little song together. For some reason I had some trouble removing notes. Clicking them didn't make them go away immediately. Maybe I misunderstood something about the mechanics?
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There where a lot of known bugs on release (including a sticky button with the notes) but we simply ran out of time. classic sticky jam issues. Another fun bug is one of the notes has an entire orchestra playing instead of one note... see if you can find it :p
Really nice! I love the idea of putting a whole festival on while composing tunes. Super rich idea with a lot of potential. And the forest critter theming is really sweet. I wanted to be able to use 8th notes for the melodic instruments as well but I understand why it was limited to the drums. Well done!
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Yeah we had to hard wire each note in (so 28 per instrument) otherwise it would have been even tighter on time... If we give it another run after the jam definitely will be upgraded for 8th notes :)
The critters do have a great festival vibe, plus they leave the forest clean after!
Cute game - I feel like I made a catchy tune without having to try too hard. Put a smile on my face. Great work!
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We set all the instruments to a d major pentatonic scale so players could just throw a bunch of notes in and it would sound good :)
Glad you enjoyed it.
These little animals are so cute! Such an adorable art style and very creative! I really love seeing the little creatures running around on the screen, and I think all the tents look fantastic too! Plus, it's really relaxing to play. Good job!
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If your really liked the artwork check out Squarepinski on steam :) our artist put a lot into that game and it's also very much a cosy feel!
Wow, that's awesome! I'll go check it out.(〃'▽'〃)
Looks and sounds great. I ended up just playing with the sequencer the whole time and wasn’t really paying much attention to the rest of the game haha. Maybe some sort of phase mechanic where the you only get one instrument track at a time and slowly build up the song would give the player more of a chance to interact with everything else going on and help the pacing a bit. Also, really good work on the characters and dialogue, very charming!
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We intended to add in buyable instruments and different types of tent but simply ran out of time :)
Glad you enjoyed what we got done!
This is the only game I've played that used music loops for the theme! Incredibly cute and fun.
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I have had a hunt through and not seen any that have done it like us so far :)
All the cuteness credit goes to our excellent artist!
This is incredibly adorable. I love the art so so SO gosh darn much. First time I've gotten big into a music-based game!!
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We definitely have a cosy critter core as a team and our artist portrays it wonderfully :)
Hopefully this springs you into the world of musicianship :p
Very good design. I don't understand the music arrangement but I can enjoy the game!
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We definitely rushed the tutorial due to time limits so if we extend it after the jam that will be one of the main points to work on! Glad you enjoyed the game regardless.
great loop, creative freedom of creating my song, artsy and beautiful
music loop is a genius idea!
one of the best entries ive seem!! congrats!! ☺️
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I'll be honest when I finally settled on music loops our developer looked very pained :p probably why most teams steered clear.
Honoured to be called amongst the best entries! We had fallen out of love with it by the eleventh hour 😅 classic game jam.
Music? Piano roll? Loads of adorable animals running round with adorable art? sign me tf up
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Check out Squarepinski on steam for more complete/polished cute critters ;)
About crashed my game with so many little critters running around haha. To be honest, I'm not really sure what I was doing regarding the loop? If I click and dragged, many of the instruments turned red, and it seemed like if I just placed them individually that wouldn't happen. But to be honest, I couldn't tell if the music was making a difference at all. Also I placed a bunch of basic tents the first go round, only to find I couldn't replace them with better ones later, which left me with nothing to do really, because all the lots were full. Then I restarted and added better ones and planned better, but I'm not sure what they did differently? I'm sure there was something going on, but maybe if the different tents and the music loops gave a bit more feedback to show what I was achieving by doing it one way or another. Fun aesthetic though! And I played it until my computer sounded like a jet engine and couldn't take it anymore lol
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We never actually put an upper limit on critters so would love to know how many caused it to really start struggling!
There was a lot of spreadsheet maths going into the whole berry system but in the end we decided to have it all hidden to encourage users to play as apposed to optimise. There was also food/merch tents but we ran out of time to implement them :'(
Fair enough! Definitely had like 2000 I think, but I could be pulling that number out of nowhere, it might have been more or less. I was buying the most advanced tents for 2k each at that point I think then I had to shut it off
Great work ! Love the art and the narrative, and really enjoyable even if you know nothing about music :)
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We tried really hard to ensure the player could create with no prior music knowledge :)