SPACE JAMZ by Musicolor

made by Musicolor for LD26 (JAM)

Jam and improv while floating through space. Ever wanna jam out but didn't wanna think about technical theory? Stay away from the lanes with skulls, and you'll be in perfect harmony :)

1. Click screen, jam out, and rack up points without hitting the skulls
2. ?????
3. PROFIT!!

For those curious, the keys on the screen represent 1 octave on a piano. The allowed spaces are supposed to correspond to what "sounds good" played with the chords.

Additionally, the scoring is such that less common notes will give you more points and more common notes will give you fewer points. Also, the availability of notes will vary per song. We only had time to put in one, but we have a couple more in the works.

Written in HTML5/JavaScript,
used Quintus framework (http://www.html5quintus.com/)

Developers: Philip Gianfortoni, Stacey Dao
Music & Graphics by: ch4rl33 (http://ch4rl33.com)

Web	http://ch4rl33.com/musicolor/index.html
Source	http://ch4rl33.com/musicolor/game.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=23326

Ratings

Coolness	45%	1411
Overall(Jam)	2.68	443

Audio(Jam)	4.07	15
Fun(Jam)	2.71	347
Graphics(Jam)	2.32	492
Humor(Jam)	2.29	234
Innovation(Jam)	2.52	406
Mood(Jam)	2.76	322
Theme(Jam)	3.00	368

Feedback

aquilicoco

29. Apr 2013 · 13:22 UTC

Ahhh! too many keys!!

MTO

29. Apr 2013 · 15:58 UTC

I had too much fun jamming out on this haha

Nambew

29. Apr 2013 · 16:13 UTC

I like music game and this small keyboard was fun to play. On my macbook, the two last key ("-", "=") doesn't work.

AnnaGavaldaKedavra

29. Apr 2013 · 16:53 UTC

it works very well! The sound and music are cool. I'm totally jamming.

uprightpath

29. Apr 2013 · 17:43 UTC

I know it's supposed to be intuitive, but it would be nice to have an explanation of what's expected. For a while there, I couldn't score any points at all (Don't know if I wasn't focused correctly or what) and I didn't know whether the intent was to press and hold. Also, I'm not sure if it was intentional, but 3, 5, 0 never had 'bad' spots.

Pierrec

29. Apr 2013 · 18:15 UTC

This is a very interesting idea and I supposed it could be quite fun if my computer wasn't that slow (sounds are flickering...always)
As uprightpath said, a quick tutorial could have been nice, but it took me less than 30 seconds to understand

PurpleMoustache

29. Apr 2013 · 20:33 UTC

I don't really know what to do, but it was fun goofing around with...

Martin_Monosys

29. Apr 2013 · 21:08 UTC

At first you don't know what to do, then you just groove a long... Fun game, nice tune! I'm kind of inspired to make a similar game, thank you for that! (I probably won't...)

Richard Matey

29. Apr 2013 · 23:57 UTC

These are banging space jams! Had to check out Charlee's other music. This stuff is terrific.

Masadow

30. Apr 2013 · 00:47 UTC

There is way to more keys. It's very hard to master the song :D Anyway, the idea was good !

SanctuaryInteractive

30. Apr 2013 · 02:55 UTC

This was appropriately entered as a Jam entry.

DaveDobson

01. May 2013 · 22:45 UTC

Interesting idea, well-executed. I found it hard to use all the keys, and it would have been cool to have more of a game object/score thing that had more of a goal rather than just accumulating points gradually. I had fun messing around with it - nice work.

sanojian

02. May 2013 · 19:49 UTC

This was fun :) I rock!! Okay no I was awful but it was still fun and the music had me bopping in my chair.

Tom 7

12. May 2013 · 02:49 UTC

This was fun! I spent a lot of time intentionally triggering the "bad note" sound since it was my favorite one. Kinda makes me wish I had more sounds to play with.