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A jam submission

Behind BarsView game page

Build bars to escape them!
Submitted by Poisoned — 7 hours, 36 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#5193.7503.750
Creativity#13223.9173.917
Artwork#22743.5003.500
Narrative#34962.4172.417
Enjoyment#43992.7922.792

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Yes. It uses music loops.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All me baby! All the models, textures, sounds and code are by all MEEEE!

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Poisoned

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Comments

Hahah, my vertigo x_@

Submitted

This game feels really good. I always like it when the audio is a major part of the gameplay. And your VFX on those lazes is really nice. It got tedious after a while but it was super fun! And all that artwork too! Did you make all those 3D models in 4 days?? That's superb. Nice work!

Also I'd appreciate feedback on my submission if you get a chance!

Developer (1 edit)

Yeah I made the models from scratch in about a space of a day. As I mentioned before, use enough Blender, Photoshop and Substance Painter and you can crank out models quite fast. Well hard surface models anyway. I still suck at soft body.

Submitted

Wow that's awesome! Nice work! 

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted (1 edit)

This was fun. I'm pretty bad at dictation, especially rhythms, so this was a neat exercise. (I did have to play most of the clips more than once, however. :P)

Submitted

I wasn't sure what to expect but I had a great time. My only suggestion would be to include a pair of buttons--one clears the laser area so you don't have to manually remove all the boxes--the other mutes the laser area so you can go back and listen to the sample loop. 

Good game!

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Hey thanks for playing. Personally I found it fun haphazardly tossing out the boxes you placed neatly before but I could see that getting old after awhile.

Submitted

it feels like I'm arranging songs using the music blocks in a game like Stardew or Minecraft, but the stakes are higher (imprisonment vs. a pleasant walking path to harvest my parsnips on).

Really creative game hook!

Submitted

Cool idea of loop! Liked the gameplay of making music.

Submitted

Not bad, I don't know if its the web gl version but your first person camera seems to be jiterry. Try using it on a seperate controller and moving its transform in late update for smoother frames!

Developer

Seems okay my end. But I do have a high end render rig so *shrug*

Submitted

Very interesting take.  I with I had thought of musical loops!  Time to uninstall FL Studio now :)

Submitted

I Really like your game! as a fellow fan of music, this was a pretty good memory game lol. I would have loved a litle ui pop up for the button tho lol, i got stuck on it at start for about a minute without understand what to do with it lol. 

i really liked it great job

Submitted

I've seen a couple other music based projects, but this is the first 3D one I've seen. This is such a unique idea, it's crazy how many ideas there are just from the word "loop"

Submitted

Very interesting concept. Lots of personality on display in just a limited space.

Submitted

I really liked the concept and it felt rewarding to actually solve it. My only concern is the audio memorization bit, I feel like it should be a UI button instead of a physical button so you don't have to go back and fourth just to hear the audio over and over, but its a good game and I enjoyed the time.

Submitted

Fun game, unique concept! I feel like people would struggle with the audio memory part of this, and I wish the sounds ended up adding up to something a bit more nice sounding, but such are the limitations of time. It felt a bit short for me, but I had fun! (the last bit was rather amusing)

Developer

Yeah I really didn't have time to make it sound good. It was hard enough making it sound tolerable. That bass was a pain in the arse let me tell you. 

Submitted

I can imagine. Did you synthesise it in engine or rip it from a daw? 

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Most were from VST synths. The bass is from one called 808 cooker. Others are mostly Serum. The kick was an 808 sample.

Submitted

I'm rubbish at music creation, but I really like what you did with it. it felt fresh compared to a lot of other music games i played in the past

Submitted(+1)

I don't think my brain is wired for music, so it was kinda hard for me:D, but there's the cool S on the door, so that's something. Nice take on the loop theme. 

Developer

I had way too much fun scratching the cool S into that door.

Submitted(+1)

My ears are not built to discern sounds so trying to solve this was physically painful for me, but despite that the wonderfully crafted assets (how did you  make it all look so good in souch a short time!) and unique mechanic made me soldier on, and that ending sure was worth it, such soothing tones!

Developer(+1)

Hey thanks for sticking it out. Yeah I know this wasn't for everyone but I'll bet nobody else has done anything like this! As for the assets, it's just practice with Blender and Substance Painter. You can knock out "something" pretty fast when you have the muscle memory.

Submitted(+2)

Creative idea! I was not good at figuring out how things sound mind you, but I did beat my friend to the end and isn't that what matters? Sadly there's no way to give you a thumbs up though :(

Submitted(+1)

My ears are all bunged up because I'm ill and I'm basically tone deaf anyway D:<  1v1 me in any game that doesn't require ears :'(