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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 4.132 | 4.132 |
| Audio | #1 | 4.263 | 4.263 |
| Innovation | #1 | 4.053 | 4.053 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.263 | 4.263 |
| Gameplay | #3 | 3.737 | 3.737 |
| Fun | #3 | 3.789 | 3.789 |
| Visuals | #3 | 4.684 | 4.684 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How did you incorporate the given theme in your game?
You help the little things do the little things to prepare for their concert.
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This game was amazing! The art and audio is well polished and the minigames are short but sweet! All the characters are super charming and the song at the end rocked!
Only a few issues: the ant's amp section feels a bit unintuitive at first - I felt like I was fiddling around randomly. The ladybug's section also needs better ways to tell what keys you can't press (though that may be on me). Lastly, at the thanks for playing screen, it brought up the UI for the centipede minigame (in the web port).
Amazing game, beautiful art. The pre-concert mini games are very interesting. Kudos to the team for the great work!
this is AMAZING. Very polished stylistic art that matches the ui and the vibe, fun gameplay, fun music, overall genuinly had so much fun playing it. I love how most of the game is helping them prep for their concert, its more unique! I'm sure you're gonna work on the ending when we play with them (arrows) and hopefully more small things to help them with (outfit, makeup, maybe polishing equipment, wiring etc). Can't wait to play it again !!!!!
Beautiful game! So well done! Gorgeous art, I really enjoyed this one.
I also hit the 'tiny game on a giant black square' bug, but I could still play the game. I just had to squint a bit XD
attention everybuggy 🐛🔊 this game ROCKS! lmao this was so much fun and so cute! As someone who has sent up musical equipment all the time this is fairly accurate, i was surprised i was actually tuning a bass in a game lmao (i think bro needs a digital tuner lol) the art is so adorable the ant running on the menu screen is my favorite its so cute :3 however, it seems the ending rhythm game eneded early, i just started running out of arrows. I figured you all mustve just run out of time to finish it so i really look forward to playing the finished product during phase 2! I would love to see a final score for that rythm section btw would be cool as heck!! Great game :)
Thank you a lot! Yeah, I ran out of time at the end, that is why the last arrows are also not matched to the music correctly. Finishing that will be first priority in part two. Also you can see your score on the credits screen in the bottom right if you want.
the guitar section is a bit hard to understand, and bugs' voices in the final song are a bit too harsh. but other than that it's completely awesome! very cute and coherent, lovely artstyle!!
Thanks, I'll see what we can do about the voices. Which guitar section are you talking about the electric guitar (dials) or the bass guitar (tuning)? If it's bass there are a few complaints about that (with which I agree) and I have already a few ideas to improve it. If you mean the dial minigame I would love it if you could maybe clarify what is hard to understand so I can think of a better solution. I already know that the volume thing seems to be a bit too confusing and people sometimes end up not hearing anything but probably don't mention it since it does not hinder progress and they don't even notice :)
i was having problems with electric guitar section, honestly it was just a bit hard to understand what exactly dials affected, and it seems like i got the right answer randomly?? anyways, i like how there's an option to strum the guitar to see that dials DO affect something! :0
Hmm okay thank you a lot, I'll have to think about what can be done there.
Hello! Nice game!
I could not complete the guitar game because could not figure out how tune it, but the rest of them was intuitive.
Very innovative and really nice art style!
Congrats!
Thank you.
The bass tuning is one of the complaints we get the most. I already have ideas, to make it easier to understand in the second part so I hope we will be able to implement them and everyone will be able to beat it in the final version so everyone can play the rhythm game and see the credits without too much frustration.
Incredible. Super fun, cute and not at all repetitive. The minigames were great. The storyline well linked with the jam theme, the art adorable and the music just so vivid and cohesive. Great work!!!
Very adorable game! You did amazing!
Thank you!
Awesome little music game! Loved it, tiny bit of learning curve but once i understood was very fun!
Thanks a lot. I hope to makethe games a little easier to understand in the second part.
this game is incredible. the art is so gorgeous and polished, the music is amazing. and even the gameplay of the minigames is really well done and feels unique, everything is silky smooth. i did have a slight issue with resolution as seen in my picture of my highscore (full screen only makes it worse). i can't wait for you to finish charting the song at the end, it's the only thing i see that needs to be finished lol. you did an incredible job here, wow!
AMAZING!!!
I like that the girl band design, is not the typical girl bug designs, I LOVE IT!!!
Especially the moth design, the buff, tough, antenna bite but pink and fluffy, chef kiss!
I hope the rhythm game will continue through the whole song in part 2 :)
I have nothing to add too much but I did have an extra bug I think?
After clicking the Thanks For Playing banner, you are playing through the mini games again and the drums mini game looked like that to me:
Thank you! Our artists and composer did an incredible job.
Yeah I was quite sad about not being able to finish the rhythm game, but finishing that will be first priority for part two. (also maybe adding two more difficulties, since some people found it too hard)
Also thanks for the bug report, someone else also mentioned it. I just didn't think about the player clicking something in the end. Maybe I'll just reset you to the title screen.
Thanks a lot! The moth is based on a rosy maple moth if you want to look them up!
the art in this game is amazing! Couldn't find socials but I need to follow the artist x0
The gameplay was very cute, when playing on browser, the gameplay only took up a quarter of the screen and the rest was black for some reason and towards the second half of the guitar hero music mini game, the notes stopped appearing. Other than that no notes, the art and music are very charming
Thank you for the feedback! The art of your game is really lovely, too.
Enabling game scaling introduced a bug I didn't have time to fix so I turned it off for now (sorry about that), but I hope to fix that in the second part.
For the rhythm game I sadly ran out of time, the mapping took way longer than I expected, so I'll finish that in the second part and hopefully add more difficulties.
I linked their portfolio on the game page. You can check that out if you want!
Helloo thanks a lot! I'm the artist but I don't have a social media were I post my art I've never being very consistant with posting. The only social I use to post is my Instagram and is all photos of my Godzilla plush lmao I can give you my Bluesky to but I can't promise art
I'm in love with the art style, this little gem is sooo polished! I was confused at first because I felt I needed some sort of basic knowledge of music theory (and I have none xD) but when I got the gist of it I was pleasantly surprised! Could this be a good game to teach some music theory...? Wonderful music <3
Thank you a lot.
I'm not sure about the music theory thing, maybe one could use the piano game to teach intervals and cords, but that might be a little too much.
I also left some feedback on your game, I hope it's not too much :)
OMG OMG OMG !! so much to say about this game !! i absolutely love the concept, it's so unique and it definitely lands! i really liked the inclusion of a rhythm minigame, i wasn't expecting it but it was a great surprise !! the music itself is great, i like the funkiness of the solos and the song all together. the best girl band in town!
Thank you! I'm also really happy with our music. The final song gave me an earworm multiple times :)
I really like the art style! really original concept!
The solos were you complete and instruments are nice and satisfying.
The band song was really good too :)
Feedback (I hope here is an appropriate spot, I can delete it):
The drum level was too confusing for me, had to do it 4 times, maybe combine a few of the drums into 1 part, like the base and bongos, or after finishing reset the wrong parts and keep the right one.
For the tuning levels, I think if you'll make it that space bar or some keyboard key will be play instead of the mouse, it will feel more fluid instead of going back and forth with the mouse.
The song need to be less difficult in my opinion, consider adding some visual effect when the note is played right.
minor bug: after the game is finished if you click on parts of the screen you can go back to the tuning scenes.
Thank you for the feedback!
The resetting wrong parts is a great idea, we'll do that.
Spacebar to play is also a really good idea, I'll add that as an option. For the bass I also wasn't totally satisfied with the controls, so maybe we'll change a bit more for that.
For the song I sadly ran out of time, That's why the last notes are kind of messed up and then it ends. We already have graphics for when you hit and miss, I'll just have to add them. I also wanted to add three difficulties, but as I said, no time. But We'll add that in the second part so maybe try again then.
Also thanks for the bug report that's a super easy fix, I just didn't think of testing that.
I tried your game too and is really nice.
Sooo good! The idea is so cute for the theme, the character design and art style of the game is amazing. I have never been very good at guitar hero stuff so that end part was just a little too fast for me xD
I wanted to put in three difficulties at first but sadly ran out of time since I didn't get loading the csv file in html to work in time. But for the second part we'll definitely do that so check back in then :)
this is so lovelyy
Thank you, your game is really cute too. And kind of cursed :)
hehehe thank youu xD