Rhythm Jump by _benhumphries

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made by _benhumphries for LD 41 (COMPO)

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Rhythm Jump

Welcome to Rhythm Jump, combining two great game genres into something abominable!

Jokes aside, my game is a combination of a platformer and a rhythm game, where using the music to guide your jumps is key to beating each level!

Controls are simple -- Space to jump, Escape to quit.

Having your sound on is highly recommended, if not necessary to play, so hopefully you enjoy the music!

Software Used:

  • Visual Studio 2017
  • SFML/C++
  • FL Studio
  • paint.net
  • git

Timelapse:

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Note:

Please don't look at my code -- it's probably my messiest work of all time. It's been a long 2 days...

Ratings

Overall 220th 3.583⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 194th 3.553⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 578th 2.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 450th 3.368⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 446th 3⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 29th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 349th 3.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

dannywalker
23. Apr 2018 · 12:08 UTC
Great idea! I found it pretty hard to play, but really fun.
change
23. Apr 2018 · 12:23 UTC
good music!
Tygrak
23. Apr 2018 · 12:41 UTC
That was really fun, I won every level, the hardest one might have been the first level :D. Awesome music too! I wish the player was more than just a box, but otherwise I really like how some of the levels look. Good job!
Steve Sparkes
25. Apr 2018 · 14:45 UTC
I agree, the first level is actually one of the hardest! Music was great, good job! It would feel more fair if the player had a wider view of the upcoming platforms. Jumping to the beat is good, but you can't predict how long or high a jump needs to be ahead of time! Great job on the submission, keep making games.
Hare Software
25. Apr 2018 · 14:50 UTC
A really solid rhythm game with good music, had fun playing it. Congrats!
benskca
25. Apr 2018 · 14:51 UTC
The music is great, the synths in level 4 were particularly cool.
Hizrok
25. Apr 2018 · 14:53 UTC
This reminds me a lot of Geometry dash. When I played I couldn't get over the second level but I got over the 5th level in one try :smiley: Overall pretty nice game, good job :wink:
Richard N Silva
25. Apr 2018 · 23:49 UTC
I really liked the music! I found the first level to be the hardest one.
Great game, congratulations on the project.
nicksmaddog
26. Apr 2018 · 00:52 UTC
Really enjoyed the music. The art style was really cool as well. I didn't really see how paying attention to the music helped with the timing of my jumps though. I get that the jumps would need to happen at the same time as the beat, but without knowing the song there wasn't any way of knowing when the beat would occur, or how long it would hold. Overall I really liked it!
spaghetti_pants
26. Apr 2018 · 01:34 UTC
Dude!! The music is great! I especially thought the level 2 track was pretty stellar.
Kovakomes
26. Apr 2018 · 08:57 UTC
Love me some rhythm games. Hard to clear a level the first time around, but after you hear the song a few times, you know what's coming. Might include some sort of indicator to help with each jump.
KiiroHanabi
27. Apr 2018 · 23:07 UTC
I enjoyed playing your game! It took me a little while to get used to the delay and beat the first level (and I think that the fact it has the slowest tempo makes it the harder because the range to achieve the jump is narrowed, to get rid of that problem you should resize the platforms depending on the tempo of the music, the slower it is, the larger they'll have to be ;))

Graphics are nice with these textures, but it was a quite hard on the eyes because of the scrolling

I liked the audio, simple but give easily the rhythm to follow, and that's the most important. Also it was different enough in each level so it doesn't get too repetitive!

About the theme I'd say platformer and rhythm aren't that incompatible, actually this combination is generally one of my favorite, it gives a good sentiment of completion and juciness when everything goes in rhythm.

Still a simple and solid game though! Good job!