Diametric by JFern

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made by JFern for LD31 (COMPO)
*Thanks for #41 in Audio!*

Click the mouse to make circles and Hold to make them bigger. Definitely better WITH SOUND (Headphones recommended)

Simple ambient game where audio is affected by the circles and what you do with them.

This is my first Game Jam and it was a ton of fun so I hope to continue to polish this as well as do more jams! I'm a beginner programmer and game dev who has a background in audio and other game-related things but I wanted to try and make something completely solo. Thanks for looking! (and for any feedback!)

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall 2.94 817
Audio 3.91 41
Fun 2.66 920
Graphics 3.15 511
Innovation 3.65 210
Mood 3.70 70
Theme 3.52 667

Feedback

harley77
08. Dec 2014 路 20:14 UTC
Interesting concept.
salmonmoose
08. Dec 2014 路 21:55 UTC
Nice to play around with - I think with a little thought about actual gameplay, this could be quite a relaxing mobile experience. Certainly one for the tablet/phone market.
oscarabraham
09. Dec 2014 路 04:13 UTC
Hey, it's really pretty. Is the sound procedurally generated?
Kopeph Developers
09. Dec 2014 路 04:43 UTC
OS X binary doens't seem to work. I get a cannot run error from the OS
馃帳 JFern
09. Dec 2014 路 04:45 UTC
Thanks for the feedback guys! oscarabraham: Unfortunately not for this game but maybe I will look into it for the future. Since I had to spend more time programming other things than doing the audio stuff I ran out of time to!
barry.p.evans
09. Dec 2014 路 04:46 UTC
i really like how the audio plays into the whole circle thing! its cool!
alvarop
09. Dec 2014 路 04:53 UTC
Interesting piece. Feels nice to play around with and experiment.
馃帳 JFern
09. Dec 2014 路 05:16 UTC
Sorry about the Mac Build Kopeph (and anyone else who tried it)! Should be working now!
Muush
09. Dec 2014 路 06:14 UTC
I loved it, simple yet effective. Loved the little visual effect when circles touch. BTW you can now play a web version of my game since the OSX version didn't work.
AndresGames
09. Dec 2014 路 07:02 UTC
Like the concept, needs work to "gamify" it. Achievments or goals maybe? Like surround these objects all at the same time without touching them? Idk, just throwing ideas. I second the mobile game comment.
馃帳 JFern
09. Dec 2014 路 07:17 UTC
@AndresGames Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely look into it (Achievements definitely sound interesting) There were a lot of things I wanted to add to make the gameplay more focused but ran out of time (48 hours is tough!)
panda
09. Dec 2014 路 07:18 UTC
Very pretty!
Arovoid
09. Dec 2014 路 07:53 UTC
Wow, this little game is awesome! I really like the mood of it :)
馃帳 JFern
09. Dec 2014 路 08:12 UTC
@panda: Thanks!

@Arovoid: Glad you like it! Mood was my main goal :D
madhoe
10. Dec 2014 路 02:19 UTC
Good concept! First impression is I loved the effect when multiple circles touched. Couldn't tell how the circles affected the music. Oh yeah -- music doesn't loop so well.

Agree with the above comment that it would be a cool game if you work on the gameplay a little more. As it stands, the scoring system is pretty bad.

Overall, good job for a first jam :)
ChuiGum
10. Dec 2014 路 02:58 UTC
I like the audio, simple but very nice. Good job
Lynx
10. Dec 2014 路 02:58 UTC
I really enjoy this a lot! So much potential to gameplay features you can add and turn this into a mobile game or anything really!

Great job on the programming to do this (I know the difficulty) and thanks for commenting about this on the Music Game post I made
Jyrkface
10. Dec 2014 路 03:34 UTC
The sound is intense :) Kinda had an ominous feel for me, honestly. I just know something terrible is happening when the spheres shrink away :P
Kitch
10. Dec 2014 路 03:35 UTC
Nice relaxing experience. Zen like. Very nice.

Good work! Thanks
馃帳 JFern
10. Dec 2014 路 05:01 UTC
@madhoe: Thanks for taking a look! Mostly the circle diameter affects the low-pass filter on all of the sounds. (thanks pointing out some issues heh scoring system is on the list!) Also, I couldn't figure out why Unity was adding the skip in the loop in time :/

@ChuiGum: Thanks!

@Lynx: Glad you enjoyed it! I'm definitely looking into expanding it (and getting better at programming haha) Thanks for posting the music post! Gotta represent the music games!

@Jyrkface I love your description! Glad you enjoyed it!

@Kitch I was going for a meditation thing so glad it was Zen for you!
kirbytails7
10. Dec 2014 路 08:33 UTC
Nice ambiance, for sure. I'm a bit confused as to why there are a score and timer, though.
Simon
10. Dec 2014 路 09:03 UTC
Love the mood. Good first entry
Backterria
13. Dec 2014 路 04:58 UTC
Very nice mood with that music!Great concept also!
AlSweigart
17. Dec 2014 路 07:30 UTC
Nice concept, though it kind of gets boring fairly quickly.
馃帳 JFern
18. Dec 2014 路 00:18 UTC
@kirbytails7: Thanks! I ran out of time to add some other things that would make the timer/points more useful :/

@Simon: Thanks! It was a ton of fun to do!

@Backterria: Glad you liked it!

@AlSweigart: Thanks, ran out of time to do some other stuff with it since 48 hours is short (with work too!) but hopefully the other stuff I add will make it less boring for future ppl!
spacedoubt
18. Dec 2014 路 01:44 UTC
Neat! I'm an ambient type of guy, so I enjoyed it!
maxmetallica
29. Dec 2014 路 22:17 UTC
nice work