Awww, glad you liked it so much! We were so inspired that the ideas for each level, the songs style and the whole theme for the game came out by itself in the first day of brainstorming, and we agreed in (almost) all decisions for the game, so it was a breeze to work together haha :) thank you for playing it! <3

Hey Andy! Thank you for playing it and the comment :) so happy of the artistic side we achieved in this game for a second Game Jam, and so excited to do new games soon! Making music and games was always a dream for me, so this Jams are so fun to do.

Hello hello! Thank you for all this points you shared, lots of them are on point, for sure! :)

• Glad you enjoyed the music and the level designs of the notes! We had to do quick iterations because of changing mechanics (holding notes), trying to keep the first level as “Tutorial level”, and the second as a more rhythm Hip-Hop beats. We had the idea of a third level, but we didn’t reach on time :( maybe post Jam I could make a new song, let’s see!

• Leaderboard was a really nice idea we had as well! The second button in the Main Menu was supposed to be that, but we had to move it to “Out of Scope” in our Board because of time as well :( if it’s not hard to implement (the database and API), it would be nice to check :)

• We wanted to animate the band, at least a 2 frame switching with the beat. Same with the crowd (booping up and down with each beat), but no time for that as well :( might have been cool to add more dynamics, indeed.

• We were talking to improve the cover art comparing with the other submissions that we liked, like making the alien-51 title green, or showing the band as the cover. I might be able to talk to the pixel artist to see if we can change it. Glad you were curious to click and discover it :)

First of all, thank you very much for your full review! Really helpful and with lots of positive and constructive feedback :) here are some points I can answer:

• The Baguette Eiffel was the starting point of all the bizarre ideas when doing the brainstorming for the theme, everything else came from there haha. We initially thought of a Free Tour Guide that had to build a circle of tourists and bring them to strange places like this, and talk and show it to get points (might work on that idea as a test in the future for another small game).

• The timing on the notes sometimes was a bit hard to sync perfectly, so it might be a problem of the notes itself, not the web. We are planning to improve the levels a bit post Jam :)

• About the audio feedback: we focused on the visual feedback with the ripples, and even thought to make the note show white before disappearing to give more feedback in that part, but it’s true we could add a small drum or space sci-fi sound for the single notes and the hold notes. I personally wanted the player to enjoy the original song without much extra noises (the crowd was supposed to show up after Streak x20 with a “WOHOO!” and crowd noise, but it was out of scope / song was not going to listened well). We will look into that for post Jam as well and let you know to test it!

• About animation of the band: another point that was out of scope, sadly :( it could be a nice addition if our pixel artist has time post Jam. She wanted to add different states of the band (like sweating and sad if there were lots of misses, and happy and playing if they were playing correctly). Lots of ideas, but such a short time, but oh well, Jams are like that haha :(

Glad you liked the artistic side of the game :) it was really important we made it the best part of the game, and happy you appreciate it! <3

Hello! :) Thank you very much for your detailed review of the game! I am not a professional Rhythm game player either, so I think the difficulty we managed to achieve for the game is enjoyable for everyone. Glad you liked and gave it a try!

About the synchronization of the beats: as we added the “hold the note” mechanic with few time to improve the songs in the last day, this was the best we achieved some hours before the submission ended :( but after the Jam, I will try to make the notes match better some instruments of each song, thanks for the recommendation!

Have a nice day as well! :)

Hehe we could’ve foreseen more games being named like that. It’s the first thing that popped to mind when we came up with the idea, and we just ran with it!

If you enjoyed it that’s what matters for us the most :D

If music is your strength and you enjoyed playing it, that’s the most important for us :) the score is just for challenging / Leaderboard purpose. Thank you for playing it! I will do my review of yours now :D

Awwww thanks so much for the superb review! The art and music synergy we got going on is definitely strong.

I only just got into pixel art less than a month ago, it’s the first time creating 2D game assets for me. And you’re on point with that band animation. I got way into the hot dog man and could’ve used that time to animate the band and the foreground instead!

Thanks for raising the bug about the long notes, I noticed that during the testing and hoped it’s a flake on my part, apparently not. I’ll debug the code.

Fantastic review, glad you had fun and I’ll definitely check out your game, preview looks great!

Thank you so much for your review and words :) making someone enjoy the creative details of a game makes me feel proud of the effort I put in my music and SFX works, great motivation to keep making new games in the future! <3

Thank you so much! A lot of heart and time went into them :D

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the music :) one of my favorites to produce and play from the two, with the Synth change and the alien vocals.

Oh yesss, I was bopping my head all the time while developing and testing it. Glad you enjoyed it! :D

Thank you very much for your words! Really motivates me to keep doing music for new games, it was really fun :)

If rhythm games is not your thing but you enjoyed it then we must’ve done something right! If only there was more time to animate the band it would improve the look and feel, definitely :D Thank you!

Wow, what a nice review, thank you! Will definitely check out your game! :D

Haha I liked this comment a lot as well. It’s good that the levels are fun in terms of difficulty for everyone, and that you liked the concept. Hope we add one more song when the Jam ends, would love you to try it :) I will take a look on your game a well!

We thought of making the buttons have the rhythm of one of the instruments, like all the Drums of the Hip-Hop one, but we thought a bit of freedom to play around with different combinations. We have the goal post Jam to improve each level patterns, so it’s a good feedback :) thanks!

This was our second Jam ever, we are so happy with the idea and the result :) Thank you for playing!

Woooo, that’s a really high score! We were planning to add a third level, but we took the decision to focus the scope on making the long / hold notes, and it was worth it to add more depth to the gameplay :) maybe post jam we add new ones!

So happy to read this :’) Thank you! I had a lot of fun making both levels songs, and the theme was really inspiring to make them goofy and groovy haha.

Human scoring test: SUCCESSFUL! Good job, human! We are still developing the result vinyl (Bronze, Silver, Gold), but for now, here’s a medal. People on Earth liked them 👽🏅

Thanks for testing it! Glad you liked the fun little details and jokes like that escape animation we added, haha. We gave this second Jam a lot of care and love, we are really happy with the result :)

Glad you liked my music! We are improving the Level 1 song as well, and better visuals, gameplay and feedback :)