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Theme
Your broke band takes a last-minute gig at a strange bar on the edge of town, for triple the pay. The crowd doesn’t move. They just stare. And every time you finish the song, it starts again, faster. Encore is a 5-lane rhythm horror game. Keep your band in time through rounds of the same song, as the tempo climbs. Each bandmate can survive only two mistakes. Then stage fright hits: the screen blurs, notes vanish, and lanes swap. One wrong note could cost someone their life.
Limitations
Shared Experience; We all get stage fright when we perform, and the stage-fright sections are what it feels like for us. Human Generated Artwork; All artwork and music are produce by the amazing team of restless software engineers and product manager who can do a tiny bit of arts, ex-conductor now project engineer, and no time to relax UX designer.
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Everything about this game is perfect... the gameplay, art style, UI, SFX, and music are 10/10. I love how you guys represent stage fright, apparently and brilliantly. The audience noise made me even more stressed and rushed. Also, I found a small detail on the game over screen, the back row turns their head and stares into my soul. It feels like they want me to play MORE, tho I got like 30% accuracy (easy mode btw). Very well-made game(✿◠ᴗ◠)
This is the first rhythm game that I found on this Jam. It's so much fun to play. I really enjoy it 🎶🎶✨
This game idea is absolutely mind-blowing! Mixing rhythm gameplay with a time-loop theme is genius.
Thank you so much for your feedback! ❤️
Oxygen Not Included On Stage, hahaha. Why do I feel like the audience is the villain, forcing them to play on stage. The sound of them saying "More" is so haunting. Anyway, the art style is good and a good spin on the rhythm game design.
Thank you so much for your feedback! And your feeling is correct though, we want to add some stories that these guys was tricked into infinite playing to satisfied the entity
Wow, this game is so much fun ! I could keep playing for hours. I love rhythm games, and I really enjoyed this one. Art is super stylish too. I love this game ! ♥♥
Thank you very much for trying our game!
the band art look like the oxygen game but overall I like the rhythm game so much even if it blur my vision and also make me blink in both real life and in game overall I like this lol
Thank you for playing our game! We took inspiration from Oxygen not included, for the art.
We want to interpret the actual symptoms when stage fright hits, so yeah blinking and sweating is expected! 🤣🤣
I mean my band might have gotten a bit too much of stage fright hits because they all died 😭😭
rhythm horror is such a fun idea, love the cute band art!
Thank you for playing our game! we hope you have a great time with the band!
Cool and cute art design, The gameplay concepts and the theme are really interesting—keep it up!
Comment from the Inheritor, This is cool 😯
Thank you for trying our game!
interesting take on stage fright. The art style reminds me of Oxygen Not Included. It's very cute but still able to make it give out a creepy vibe when needed. The character sprite change plus the fast pace gameplay make the panic feel real
also W to the composer
Thank you for trying our game, and yes we took Oxygen Not Included as main inspiration for our characters. Also appreciated on your praise on our interpretation of Shared Experience theme!
Love the song and the concept of "deteriorating" the musicians
Thank you so much for playing! all credit goes to our composer and art director!
a really fun game!!! idk if it's a horror game or not but i feel like it's super cute lol
**spoilers alrt**
Somehow it end up with "Horror is the honour for the winner", But i think that not for you guys after I play your game 🤣
Thank you for playing our game! Comparing to yours it would be just a bunch of kids playing on playground though lol
I didn’t expect to see a game like this with a horror theme. Overall, it’s a really great idea
Thank you very much for playing our game! ✨
Thank you for the feedback! Feel free to check out our other game as well.
Thank you for trying out our game! A tutorial would be a great idea, thank you so much for you suggestion!
So I just played the game, and ya its reall good. I like the concept. It's really exceptional and bold. Also, the way you designed the UI is very, very nice. One Question from mah side: is this music tone is from some Thai songs or an English song? Idk, kinda felt familiar.
Thank you for trying out our game! We took lots of inspiration from classical music and some games' OST, all credit to our composer!
Hi Composer here, The tone of melody it kinda mix between Undertale Spider dance theme..ish(that why you felt similar)and Some another game boss fight as well (Feel like that has Arpeggio melodic mix with Phrygian flavor for horror theme).
Also If you play pass through near ending, You can that the song can be separate into three part (Phase 1 Boss fight, Transition between phase 1 and phase 2, and the Phase 2 fight) which kinda typical for Boss fight OST.
Really bold concept! can't wait for a new songs :)
Thank you very much! We sure put our composer in a creative dungeon for "MORE" songs in the future 🤣
This game is so unique. I like the idea that makes rhythm game with spooky vibe! Looking forward to more of it!
Thank you for interested in our game! We sure push "MORE" in the future.
Cool game, but sadly, I'll have to give you 1 star... for each one of your "lanes" in your game for the overall rating.
MORE!
Appreciated! Thank god we have 5 lanes 🫣