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A jam submission

Bug BeatView game page

Use your drumming skills to save your critter family!
Submitted by 20paws, frinkly, lnterest — 1 hour, 31 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#323.4433.583
Originality#513.6033.750
Fun#723.0423.167
Theme#733.6833.833
Overall#763.1453.274
Graphics#823.2033.333
Accessibility#1052.5622.667
Controls#1302.4822.583

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
4.4.1.stable

Wildcards Used
N/A

Game Description
Use your drumming skills to save your critter family!

How does your game tie into the theme?
Play as a rhythmic gang of critters who need to fight other critters in order to get home!

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username(s)
frinkly,lnterest

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! I definitely am not built for rhythm games seeing how i did on this game, but it was really fun nonetheless! The higher bpm songs were a great way to increase difficulty alongside introducing the bug blast, and I just enjoyed the game overall!

Developer

Yay! Thank you for the kind words, and glad you enjoyed the game :)
Definitely not a reflection of your rhythm game skill though, since the gameplay itself has a lot of room for improvement -- we  made some QoL changes based on feedback that might make the game a bit easier to play through!

Submitted(+1)

i think im to unmusical for this game. couldnt get past the first enemy, kept messing up the timing.

but looks like a cool concept

Developer

I think there was definitely an opportunity to make the rhythm and gameplay a bit clearer, so not a lack of music sense at all! Very insightful to hear your perspective so we can try and make the game a little more digestible -- thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This was definitely a challenge but so adorable and so much fun to play!! I think if there had been letters / reminders on which buttons to press for each action that would have been helpful. I kept forgetting which keys I needed to press, and when! I made a super rough mockup of what I mean - not that you'd have to do this exactly - but just to give you a general idea.

That said, I really enjoyed Bug Beat & feel inspired by this game to try and make a rhythm game of my own at some point :D

Developer(+1)

Glad you had fun, and thank you so much for the suggestion and mockup! That's super valuable, and we made some changes along those lines to make it a bit more clear what to press and when :)

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoy rhythm games, and this one was super fun. Once the beat got faster though (the level with the bat), I couldn't seem to get the hits to register on the downbeats. I suspect it's a latency issue, but I still had fun nonetheless. Nice entry!

Developer(+1)

Hey lirana, thank you for playing! Yeah the bat level is slightly bugged unfortunately, we will be fixing it in the post jam update :( Stay tuned!

Submitted(+1)

This was fun! I'm always a fan of rhythm games and this was well done. I like the callback to Patapon (if that was the intention). 

Developer(+1)

Patapon was a huge inspiration when making this yeah, you're the first one to call it out :) It was our first time making a rhythm game and we learned a lot. Thanks for the review!

Submitted(+1)

I believe I won't be a musician but solid gameplay,

I love rythm games; this one is super hard tho, I struggled a lot to hit the first beat, i believe it is getting turned off to fast after the enemy turn, I loved the game tho, super fun!

Developer (1 edit)

Hey thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely take a look. Been seeing this a lot so this is the first thing we'll fix once post-jam updates are allowed. It's moreso a statement about our game difficulty and less-so your skills as a musician :'P

Submitted(+1)

I got massively skill issued by this game (the music finished before I managed to hit the first enemy more than once xd) I feel something about either the visual or audio indication was off, I very consistently hit the offbeats instead of the actual ones

Developer

Sorry to hear about the difficulty. We'll be working on making it more intuitive next :) Thanks for the valuable feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Neat concept, I personally cant keep a beat, so I struggled with this.

Developer

Hey thanks for trying out our game! We will definitely be working on loosening the restrictions and adding a difficulty modifier next :)

Submitted(+1)

Very nice idea, it's a bit difficult to understand the pattern I have to play but good job ! :)

Developer

Thank you!