Haha my game was garbage thanks for the concept and presentation results though
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #14 | 3.769 | 3.769 |
| Presentation | #20 | 3.538 | 3.538 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.365 | 3.365 |
| Enjoyment | #32 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
| Use of the Limitation | #61 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Blake Bishop
Software used
Unity - game, paint.net - art, FL Studio - music + sound record
Use of the limitation
There's only 2 sets of colors really in the entire game, and each sprite really only has one main color (if the sprite has any - i.e., excluding black and white). It counted blacks, grays, whites as "not a color", because "black's not a color". The game makes use of A LOT of post processing effects, bloom, etc, whatever, whatever, anything you can think of, to create colors where there mostly weren't any. Many of the sprites are close to grayscale. All the blue tones are an after effect. The sprites did not look like the finished result.
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253 days ago(+1)
I've been working on PS1 shaders for the next game
It's a lot more painful than 2D lol
Yep it ended up just being fling a ragdoll. Half of the work I did was on the movement and half of it was on post processing (or maybe more like 55% movement, 40% post processing, 5% boss, attacking, and custom keybinds). Setting up more air control would have been good, but I just let it be after a while
Yep I knew that some people would want different controls when the controls are all guitar notes and you're supposed to play 12 different keys. I tried to set up the default binds to work well and make sense, but that kind of thing isn't one size fits all.
I gave the player a lot of lee-way so you didn't even have to play many keys to move fast anymore, but still applies.
~Next time I might even just yank this keybind code and also fix the issues because somehow it ends up being way more buggy than I thought?
I have a azerty keyboard so at first I changed the wasd keys to zqsd but it ended up not being useful since you made it work for any layout (pressing Z is seen as W by the game), which is nice :) (It would be even better if it displayed the key corresponding to the player's layout to make it clearer I guess)
I did have an issue when I swapped the keys of 2 actions, when hitting "save all" it complained about one of the key being already used or something like that.
I mapped the attacks to the numpad numbers, that the one thing I wanted to change as it's the best for 8 directions, but not everyone have one
You can get much more power with strategy, but I just gave the player a lot of lee-way time for power gain (a lot). But perfect time will give you around a ~6 multiplier. You still will get a multiplier even if your playing is subpar but fast though, since an "okay time multiplier" I gave lots of extra time for the player to be able to get. It counts every 48th note at 90bpm, but the length for an okay time I think is longer than 48th note. Means you can gain power without being good.
Could have set it up to care more for precision, but that's for some other time
oh no! Thanks for letting me know. I won't do a mac build for my next jam then. I don't know why these unity builds are so ass (webgl was completely broken, mac broken..??? Linux might be broken too then)
This is latest version of Unity, if you knew what I could be doing wrong that would be great to hear
Absolutely, thanks for bringing that up! Interesting to here that about the attacks.
This game really ended up being just "throw a ragdoll around" with guitar sounds and flashing lights. I think the header message I had about "release left shift for shorter movement" probably should have lasted longer, since you can do smaller bursts after releasing the left shift key (the reason I say hold left shift in the beginning is so you can get off the ground faster).
Either way the biggest problem of the game was that the main gameplay loop is just fly at stupid speeds with loud noises. Most of your movement decisions should be made while palm muted, and I did find it fun when moving with palm muted notes, but I kind of made open notes unusable unless you want to move away from the boss super fast.
I could have polished the movement better with more drag, but that's something to figure out for next time
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