What a nice rythm game. I just wish the controls were clearer. I was fully expecting the semicricle waves to be played with the spacebar. When that didn’t work, I tried using the mouse. The only cues that were totally clear were the left and right arrows. The colors being the only clear clue about what you’re meant to press are also not very accessible (making something solely color-dependant). I would sayy that this would need work on, but overall this is very nicely done.
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Thanks I did now! I will say the music is really good, and I love the rythm game stuff, but it was really overwhelming. A lot of commands to learn, and I didn’t earn a single star at the end of the tutorial. I will add that even with the tutorial, I thought I had to use the left/right arrow when it was showing that icon, and even to do the impossibly weird task of holding the arrow and moving the mouse in that direction.
When it added the “hold Q and space while moving the mouse in that direction”, I was really overwhelmed. The game became even harder. I don’t think I can distinguish that one from the regular scratch. And then when playing, I hadn’t developed the intuition to know what to do when each thing shows up, and my muscle memory also hadn’t been developed.
It seems great, but even with the tutorial it’s a very steep learning curve. For a week-long jam, that’s a lot already. For a full game, it’s incomplete because it is requiring too much from the player at first try. I think it would really be better if the tutorial moved at a slower pace or even better if there were several tutorial levels that introduce new concept on top of older ones.