I really enjoyed how interactive the different elements are, for instance I could tell I was hovering over a tape icon when the little drop shadow appeared.
Very polished game that serves as a good example of what a solo dev can get done in a week. I am new to game dev so I've been trying to find a game that can serve as a "benchmark" of what I want to be able to do for a game jam one day and this just might be that game.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the interactive-ness of it :)
With regards to benchmarks, this one was about 3 days of work (about 8 hours per day), as I also had another entry for this jam. That one was about 1.5 days of work.
90% of the time spent on Beatcore was drawing the artwork for the scenes, and also designing the timings. The actual game's code is very minimal, like, draw_background(), draw_pucks() lol
For sure when you're starting out, it takes 10x as long because you have to google how to do everything! Very brave of you to use game jams as a way to learn gamedev, the pressure would have been way too much for me when I started.
I don't think you really need to worry about copyright in a game jam, I assume that rule is just to encourage creativity (and to prevent blatant theft).
But you evidently didn't need premade assets anyway, as you clearly have the skill to make your own art - it's actually kinda similar to my style, if a little more pixel-arty.
Well it's kind of you to call it brave and just not crazy. I decided to go the Game Jam route so that way I was forced to actually sit down and learn to make a game rather than doodle ideas in a notebook. It will also give me some frame of reference of my improvement for the next Jam.
Also, I agree there are for sure some similarities between our styles since it looks like we both really like muted/retro color schemes and a nice black outline. and thank you for your feedback on my game!
