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A jam submission

Piano PuzzleView game page

Submitted by JCowan2 — 1 day, 11 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#64.0124.333
Theme#74.0124.333
Overall#103.4333.708
Fun#153.0863.333
Refinement#202.6232.833

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Theme
The puzzles focus around a piano scale

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Comments

PIANO!!! MUSIC YOOO!!

Ok but like fun puzzle. Piano is a tad clunky to use but it gets the job done. Perhaps some kind of feedback of what note you hit could help? Maybe like have the name of the note appear next to your crosshair when looking at a note.  Would've been nice if you could control the torch's vertical direction cause it's a tad annoying having to step back from the posters. I think it'd also be useful to have your crosshair change whenever hovering over interactable objects. Very much a fan of the radio and bathroom puzzle, I feel as if not many games make use of a torch in puzzles but to be fair I don't play many puzzle games.

HostSubmitted

Nice escape room puzzle game, and good use of the theme! The puzzles are well judged and require the player to think in different ways. I think it may be a bit tricky for anyone who isn't familiar with the notes on a keyboard, but the poster gives all the information needed so it should be manageable.

Just a couple of small implementation issues that should be easily fixable: it is very fiddly playing specific notes on the piano. I'm guessing each note has a collider which you are detecting with raycasts, so maybe check the colliders are aligned correctly. It might help if the camera could zoom in when playing the piano and/or the currently targeted note is highlighted before it is clicked on. It would be helpful if the cursor changes appearance when looking at an interactable object - I'm not sure I would have known I could interact with the radio if you hadn't told me, and I found myself trying to interact with every object and cupboard door when looking for the last clue. And finally I think you already know about the unlocked door.

I enjoyed it, and am looking forward to seeing more.

Developer

I will tell you how to complete the puzzles in the game. Firstly you should click on the radio and then listen to the notes being played. You can then play these notes on the piano. You have to be very specific about where you line up where you are clicking on the piano and if you accidentally play a note twice or play a wrong note you will have to start again. On the wall in the sitting room is a picture of the C major scale, you should play this scale. It also has a picture of which notes are which on a piano. Next you can go to the bathroom where it is dark. Press space to use your torch. If you stand on the toilet and look at the wall you should see a sign with soom notes on. Play these notes on the piano. It does not matter which octave (a group of eight notes) you play the notes on the piano but it is best to play them on middle three octaves as some octaves are not correct on the ends of the piano. Annoyingly there is an error where the house is unlocked at the start of the game.

Please rate my game and give feedback as I think I might have fewer ratings than others.

Submitted(+2)

I can leave the house without doing anything, some of the notes play the same note (either that or i just can't aim the pointer precisely enough), and playing the scale does nothing, nice piano though!

Developer

Oh that's very annoying. I am sorry that the house isn't locked at the start of the game. Playing the C major scale does solve one of the puzzles. The piano needs you to be quite specific where you click. Do you think that I should add some kind of highlight around the piano key that you select to make sure that people know what not they are selecting? Some of the octaves are incorrect but the middle of the piano has the correct octave.

Submitted

That sounds good to me!