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OPTIC by atmospherium

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made by atmospherium for LD 41 (COMPO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lrn4kiIuE

To keep my streak alive, here's another Ludum Dare entry that has no "Ludum". I've been wanting to create a real-time audio visualizer for a while now and just used this LD as an excuse to finally do it. I combined the incompatible genres of "not a game" and "also not interactive." Have fun listening to four brand new tracks while circles grow and shrink in size. Fun for the whole family!

All music and code created during LD41.

Windows https://atmospherium.itch.io/optic
Other (document) https://soundcloud.com/atmospherium/sets/optic-ost
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/optic

Ratings

Overall 362th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 665th 2.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 605th 2.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 652th 2.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 39th 4.182⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1th 4.548⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 541th 1.889⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 66th 3.7⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 9🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

JCMonkey
23. Apr 2018 · 04:50 UTC
like the music and graphics. :D
SMILEY_4_
23. Apr 2018 · 15:51 UTC
Interesting gameplay mechanics :D Great graphics and music.
OccultOne
24. Apr 2018 · 05:38 UTC
Amazing job as usual! The audio is addicting, and I kept it on loop long after I should have walked away. A+ Entry, and I'll be sorely disappointed if this doesn't smash the Audio category apart on it's way past everyone else. Great job with the waveform display, this would be a neat project to hack onto a monitor that hangs on your wall and listens to your currently playing music.
Wassim
25. Apr 2018 · 15:59 UTC
Love the graphics & music!
Good job!
Velocity7
25. Apr 2018 · 17:23 UTC
I love your music man. So cool
ManBeardGames
25. Apr 2018 · 17:23 UTC
This was a super interesting idea for the two genres to combine lol. Visuals are really well done and the audio is fantastic.
foolmoron
26. Apr 2018 · 04:23 UTC
Insanely cool viz and awesome tracks. Surprising variety in genre and you nailed them all. The viz seemed to be dominated by bass though. It had really cool effects when the melody was there alone, but it didn't show any difference when there was a melody with bass.
Hi Im Greg
27. Apr 2018 · 16:44 UTC
Gorgeous, I love it. Not a game, but stunning visuals and audio.
kaytrill
27. Apr 2018 · 16:59 UTC
Not a game, but one of the best submissions on here. Love it.
Honest Dan
27. Apr 2018 · 19:49 UTC
Hard to rate properly when it hasn't really tried to fit in with the jam's theme. but good visualiser, and the fact you did the music too is really impressive. :)
alexrose
27. Apr 2018 · 23:54 UTC
>interesting gameplay mechanics

lol

IT IS WHAT IT IS ATMOS, I'M GOING TO RATE YOU ON AUDIO, GRAPHICS AND MOOD ONLY.
Brent
28. Apr 2018 · 02:32 UTC
The visualization is fantastic. I beat the game using the immense interactivity. I am the best.
Tay Elenberg
28. Apr 2018 · 20:33 UTC
Not a game,not a ld theme, but graphics and music so cool!
jshaffer94247
30. Apr 2018 · 04:02 UTC
I wish I could follow you on LD! This was a nice change...nothing to install and I had fun. Seems like you could make a game with this if you chose to.
Erkberg
30. Apr 2018 · 20:34 UTC
Very nice music and visualization, quite hypnotizing actually. Obviously not much of a game, but really good in its own right. I sat in front of it for quite some time :)
One minor thing: When there was more going on it was hard to see the melody lines.
PS: May I ask which plugins you used for the music?
Geckoo1337
01. May 2018 · 15:24 UTC
Great entry. But not a game - as you said. However you did a sympathic entry. Well done ++
🎤 atmospherium
01. May 2018 · 19:03 UTC
@Erkberg Thanks for the feedback! Regarding the music, I use Reason for my music production and mostly use stock synths and plugins. Of the non-stock plugins, I made heavy use of TDR Nova for dynamic EQ, Expanse by Blamsoft for a few of the synths, and an assortment of Joey Sturgis Tones plugins on the mix (JWBusGlue and JSTClip a few places, Toneforge JR for guitars).
DDRKirbyISQ
03. May 2018 · 01:35 UTC
Woot woot. Droplets is dope :)
Velocity7
16. May 2018 · 11:54 UTC
You got first in Audio! AWESOME