drone by atmospherium
The hive mind awakens. Circuits buzz as electrodrones fight for the survival of the colony. Or have a dance party. Something like that.
A procedural audio project, don't expect win conditions, menus or quitting without using Alt+F4

Links
- GAME: https://atmospherium.itch.io/drone
- SOURCE CODE: https://bitbucket.org/atmospherium/ld38
- TWEETERS: https://twitter.com/atmospherium
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/drone |
Ratings
| Overall | 268th | 3.323⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 358th | 2.931⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 41th | 3.935⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 538th | 2.037⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 93th | 3.969⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 2th | 4.667⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 411th | 1.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 68th | 3.76⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 39🗳️ | 39🗨️ |
Really amazing procedural audio and getting to hang out with the developer. I really look forward to seeing this as a tablet game, or maybe a tablet-based instrument. (Really want to dig into the code and see how it all worked)
- And with that graphics is its really feel so good to listen
- I wasn't actually able to figure out what is the Gameplay But i enjoyed the music
I really enjoyed playing around with the music on your Twitch channel but found the inputs a bit overwhelming. Again that comes down to my lack of knowledge but the multitude of options left me sticking to the basics. That could be helped with better UI if you were to release it as a standalone application, maybe with some explanation of what does what for the Level 1 musicians like me :)
Thank you for making it for us.
minute 2: Trying to decide which pattern I like best
minute 4: Attempting to predict how each scale will sound before clicking it
minute 5: Wondering how you are displaying the scales on screen
minute 6: Discovered you can click the notes, randomly bashing the notes everywhere
I think you are definitely on to something here, its very captivating as is. Its probably not really a "game" but it definitly is a Toy, and toys are the things use use to make games!
Great! you got some 5ves from me :)
It's a way to put some visual into what feels like only audible !
Great job !
As some ideas i would personnaly put in the game :
- I would have loved a no music pattern only to test some melodies by myself, i would have take some HOURS with a mode like this !
- Please develop this for mobile, it would be a blast without a doubt, there are already some apps like this, but not on this theme nor of this type !
I don't like this follow the theme either, but i don't mind actually !
Great job !

I've tried reloading the game several times, tried different settings for the scales and patterns and such, but I only see this blank screen with no hexagons as seen in the screenshots. Am I missing something?
The audio is pretty interesting, how you can contort the melody into different iterations and even input some notes yourself, but I don't know if there was supposed to be more of a display than that, which is all I see.