This is good - fun and clever. Rhythm Tinder? Took me a minute to figure out what I was doing but yeah, that's hilarious. The eggplants!

aha, this is fun! the song is good also.

Funny little rhythm game about... dating. Music was ok. The concept itself was very original, never seen one before.

This definitely made me smile, great job!

Ha, this is adorable. I really enjoyed this game :)

I enjoy any game that generates its own soundtrack as you play. Well done!

When you get **the idea**, the game become fun to play. Nice theme realisation and overall work. My main issue is that frame rate drop to 20-25 for no reason. Double check code, maybe it's a browser problem, maybe something else (I played on Chrome).

I'm so confused (But I never understood Tinder anyway) and I felt like the rhythm was a bit too fast to also look at the screen and see how your date is doing. So maybe for a post-compo version let the player choose the song so he can go for a nice smooth slow ballad :)

@Dumivid Thanks for the tip! I haven't come across that issue yet in my play testing, but I'll keep digging around.

@gemberkoekje haha I was kind of going for that with it being 2 incompatible genres. I definitely want to expand on the music a bunch though.

like this song, thumb up! but so fast for me :)

Really interesting, great idea "matching" (see what I did there) dating and rhythm. I'd love to see more cohesion between the two halves, perhaps emojis from your date's messages will become the next notes? Anyway I love how the game generates its own soundtrack, really the best part. All in all I enjoyed playing it, good job!

That was fun and I think it's a great idea. The sound and graphics both complement the game well, it's all really hectic.

That being said, I'm not used to rhythm games so there was a bit much for me to follow on the screen all the time. Feels like a game I can get better at though so there's a temptation to come back for more later. It certainly feels like something I can get into a kind of flow with once I'm used to it.

Edit: On a later playthrough it's manageable and surprisingly engaging. I don't know what the logic is in the background but it feels like it's responding to the direction I choose. :thumbsup:

Got a date with Ash!
Fits the theme very well, and it's fun. Good work with the art and music.

I finally got a date, yeah ! I had no idea of what I was suppose to do at first but the game is pretty intuitive and we don't need more than the basic controls, so thumbs up for this.

The only complain I would have is that there is some input lag that can be frustrating.

Sadly every play through they disconnected from me! Bit hard at the start to get a hang of the controls, but after that provides an enjoyable experience.

Very cool! This is a great, original idea, and smart integration of the theme.

Unfortunately, my musical prowess does not support my dating prowess as much as I feel it should.

Swipe down.

Very cool concept ! :D But you made a typo : when you loose, it is displayed that we have to select a drirection ^^ (that is nothing, obviously)

I really enjoyed the experience ^^ Keep coding :)

@Mathiouza oh lol good catch! thanks

really funny and nicely done.
Don't know how but got a date on first try by simply putting whatever "down" is, and hearts.
A downside is that for the "note" to be successfully pressed, is to press the key when the heart/square is on the right of the "button"(?).

@minirop lol! down was supposed to be a peach, i'm not good at art.

your input issues are definitely not how its supposed to work I'll look into it. Thanks!

Really liked the concept and execution! Congrats!

It's great! I really enjoyed it! The music is great!
Thanks for the game!

Nice music and solid game. I like all the different portraits and names. And the fact that you could choose which emoji to use. Also nailed the theme imo. Great job!

Music is very good, and the game works really well. Kind of cheered me up! Well done !!

I really liked the music. I laughed about the game concept of swiping girls!

Really great concept! Very fun to play :)

This was great even though nobody loved me

Loved it, really great. Good music tons of fun.

100% accurate simulation of sending eggplant emojis continuously to people on dating apps
:eggplant:

I like it!!
good music, beat and sound! :heart:

This game is awesome! The music is really nice. I couldn't figure out if it makes any difference which emoji you send. Also, I will be reporting youfor homophobia for not giving the option to send the two-gay-dads-emoji. Great game though.

Cool game, I love the music and the feel. I had fun spamming eggplants. I learned I could hold down space to clear the hearts, which made it easy, but it's a cool idea!

Interesting game. Love the audio. Controls and the point of the game was a little confusing. Could just hold down space to get all the hearts, and wasn't sure what I was supposed to be responding with.

Surprisingly addictive music, good job!

What a cute game!!! It's the first rhythm game where I really enjoyed the music. Great choice to go with chiptunes and pixel graphics!

It took me FOREVER to finally get someone to go on a date with me! I wish there was some kind of feedback on which emoji I should be choosing. I couldn't figure out if each person liked a certain one or if it was a 25% chance each time to get one they liked and I just had the worst luck ever.

Super cute and very fun! Great job!

Hilarious! It took me a second to understand how to play and my reflexes are hella slow but it was great!

great fun, love the music - wasn't sure which actions would bring a good result - kept getting disconnected :cry: - Overall great fun.

@emiko @petitpois you have a 33% to have a positive response each text you send. I originally wanted to make something a bit more involved but I didn't have enough time. Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked it!

It's pretty fun but a little hard for me, I missed most of the hearts :D An other think that bothered me a bit was that the 'tunes I played' were off sync with the music. It's not that big of a deal, but it would be a nice touch if it was in sync.

Take me a bit of time to understand what's going up then I spent a pleasant moment on your game :thumbsup: Very innovative concept, I like the idea of dating application on rythm, :eggplant: maked me laught, overally a solid entry, good job :rocket:

GINA WANTS A DATE WITH ME!

Also I love it. I love everything about it. Extra cute, really fun to play, can't fault the OP-1 pick there, it feels very wholesome and I love it.

I'm so bad at this game - nevertheless great I love minimalism, it's fun and it has nice music. :slight_smile:

It was very hard for me to push the hart at the correct time. But i think how you implemented the game is very true to the game. Seems like a good game and well tough out but not really my kind of game.

I'm not too great at games like this, but I found it fun anyway. nice entry, good music too!

Really unique idea and fun gameplay although I think the window for clicking is a bit too short.

Octavia seems to be only one preson that doesnt disconnect from the matching app hahah
I its a fun game, but I dont know how to play. The rythm is to high for me, I think that if you put it slower it could be more fun!

I agree with @Selbryn, you should have some speeds we can change

Loved the music!
I'm really bad at the game, but the game itself is really good!

THis was neat, would be nice to have music where the rhythm is a bit more variable though. Also gets very hard when you have all four arrow keys, would be nice to have some animation when a new control gets added

Excellent music! Once I get the right timing, it was surprisingly satisfying!
Good job :)

Wow, this game is really challenging. Is it possible to find love? :D Anyways, fun game. The music is great. I would have liked an option for difficulty though.

nice

This is a really great blend of genres :) I really love the music too. The only recommendation I have is that the time the player has to make each click is too short.

Fun little game! It was difficult to focus on the screen and the notes at the same time, AND gauge reactions. Great job.

Great job! a little hard to follow because of the offbeat of the animated sprites, but once i got the hang of it. IT BECAME SUPER DUPER AWESOME!! Great job!

You did a great job with this one

I like this game.

This was great except for the fact that nobody loved me :smile: All jokes aside, it was a great mini-game. Felt good & matching music made the whole experience really nice!

I’d love for you to review my submission as well.
## https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/keyboard-warrior

Really interesting idea and original way to use the theme. Simple, but fun, and that's how it should be :)

Too fast for me but overall great idea 🙂

Are you supposed to match what she asks when hitting the arrow keys ? I wasn't sure of what I was doing when I saw she was getting angry x)

Fun game! My only complain would be that I never knew what I was supposed to send to my date, but hey, still got a date everytime! ^^

By the way, you can completely cheat at this game by pressing Space all the time (all the hearts are played) and do the same for direction way before you are supposed to hit the square ;)

Overall, nice game! Fun, simple but effective, and the music is nice. Congrats!

Nice game, really like the music! Shame i'm so bad at rhythm games! Nice job here!

I love rhtythm games. And the music and everything feeled fine. Good job. Will come again and play it! :)

Ahh such a good idea and well executed.
Good job 5 Stars!

Amusing concept, not sure how you figure out what emojis to send.

Funny idea! Maybe I'm just bad at this but I feel like it was hard to keep up with the top part and the bottom part at the same time. Slowing down the hearts a bit would nice. But like I said, maybe I just suck haha. Funny and clever idea, sending eggplants made me laugh.

I had more luck here than on tinder! Brilliant idea, not entirely sure what i was doing/what direction i was meant to press but still had fun!

fun rhythm game but for some reason I couldn't understand the dating part I wonder why... I know why )':

here's my game if you want to check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/yum-some

Love it. Everything about it. My only feedback is to make an easy mode for ppl like me. I get a lot of diconnections :pensive:

Full marks on audio especially.

Clever entry. :smiley:

I love a well-timed rhythm game! The added notes on top of the backing track gave it a really bouncy, fun feel. I thought the four emoji choices were hilarious as well.

I think this game could benefit from a score counter, or a more obvious objective. I didn't know which direction I was supposed to press when I could send emojis, so I just sort of guessed random ones until I won.

Other than that though, great game!

The concept was pretty funny. It took a while to figure out what was going on. I could never get the right emojis, so I eventually just sent smiley faces only and vibed with the music. Fun little game with chill music

The concept is really funny, and the music is so cute!

A couple thoughts, I think having the hearts pulse as they come to the center make it harder to tell whether you've made a hit or not, it feels like a little too much visual feedback. I think that animation would best be used if it's a hit to make hitting the note feel more impactful.

Also, I have a hard time focusing on the top half of the screen with my attention sucked to the bottom and keeping up with the notes, so I felt like I wasn't able to focus on what was happening on the top half of the screen.

I love that hitting the notes completes the song, even without a score I was incentivised to do better to hear more of the song and that works well.

Great work!

I really liked your game man. Amazing works on the music, congratulations. Even if the graphics are simple, it works really well together. Well done

the rythm is a bit difficult to follow & the notes to catch but we get used to it. the concept is hilarious but it's a bit hard to understand what to do, i think the game would deserve some polish in making things more straightforward but maybe it's just me

Awesome! This is the best rhythm entry I've played so far

heyy that was nice, a very interesting idea! well done!

This idea is great! You implemented the jam theme very well, and in the overall everything fits and nothing breaks the humoristic mood. Maybe graphics asset were unpolished but it's ok for a jam entry.
Nice work, well done! I enjoyed this.

Brilliant! I really liked this one. At first I didn't understand what I was supposed to do but then things started work out just nicely when I got around controls. Graphics were great. Really liked changes in beats & music. Nice entry. Well done.

The music is great.

This track is amazing :v: when I was finished with the game I just spammed Space just to listen to it

It was little hard to follow because the beat didn't quite line up with the hearts. I had to press space before it overlapped the target. Once I figured that out though I was really enjoying it.

Awesome! I'm not really good with rhythm game but this is funny! The rhythm is a little bit difficult and the controls is not very comfortable. But overall is a good game!

If you want you can try my game on this link:
[Scarry](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/scarry)

I was a little confused at first but I enjoyed it! I haven't read the previous comments but are you aware you can hold down the keys to hit each "note" instead of tapping them at the right time? Anyway, well done!

@helpcomputer hahaha I am aware of that. It was just something I forgot to implement while I was finishing the game. I would fix it, but I don't like to update the game until the voting is over, unless its completely unplayable. Thanks for your feedback!

Really well thought out my dude.

I had fun playing this one, though the rhythm part was a bit too intensive for me sometimes. Sent lots of eggplants, did not get a date, found Starwars instead. Awesome. 😁

Great music! Matches the theme. Quite fun to play! :)

Cool entry, nice idea! Liked the song, though it was simple. Pity about the "hold down space" exploit, I would say that's a game breaker and you could probably get away with fixing it post submission?

Would be cool if the emoji selection meant something (it doesn't, right?), that would really add another element to the game.

Heh, nice music. Couldn't get anyone to like me.

That was pretty enjoyable haha. The music is solid and the beeps really compliment it, can get a good rhythem going.

I couldn't get anyone to like me sadly. Also I had some issues with the timing, maybe allowing late likes would be help a bit more.

Good job!

The music was great! I think the game could benefit from lines that show where each beat is, or at least where each measure starts. Most of the melody is very off-beat, so it's hard to tell when exactly you should press with those notes.

@ctran13 yeah that was one of my biggest regrets right after the jam ended. That will be one of the first things I'm adding in my post jam build. Thanks for playing!

Very cool idea, I love the music that comes out of my effort :) At times it's hard to align the beat, but overall fun to play.

Nice idea, but needs some polishing :) It is a bit hard in my opinion.

Fun game and it becomes quite addictive. Had fun playing it!

It was quite difficult becaues it was hard to press spacebar at the correct time but I am also quite bad at rhytm games so it might just be that. Having a way to select difficulty would be nice though or maybe have the difficulty be lower in the beginning and get harder with time.

The art and music by itself was very good though. Glad I got around to play this game. :smiley:

I played it ten times - i didn't find love... Is it really random? xD

Funny music and game but quite hard to play with so many randoms hahaha good job! Check out my entry if you can (I need some rates) thsnks!! :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/alien-sports

Played 10 minutes and I never found a date, I think it would be better game if the responses weren't random. Good effort tho, I like the concept.

Cool game, nice job!

This game is pretty innovative and uses the theme interestingly. I like how fast paced and fun the gameplay was, even though it was pretty hard. I also liked the music in the game and thought the graphics were decent enough. I kind of wish that the hearts were not continuously pumping because, for some reason, it made it harder for me to press space when they were constantly pumping. I wish they just pumped when you pressed the space bar on them. I liked the game's humor, especially the references to the eggplant emoji in texts.

Nice submission for a compo jam!

Music fit well with the rythm of the game and that is ver hard to do xD

It's kindly difficult to hit hearts if the are so close (sometimes)

I like how you mix this 2 genres, good job!

Ok Wow. This really got me. After first few moments I wasn't really sure what is going on, but than I kinda lost in time and after some time I even found love :) The art is fine according to the nature and style of the game, and the tunes are really catchy (got that still in my head). Very nice entry.

That was hard to play, the rythm was way too fast, but nice idea

cool beat

The music is great. The game could be a little more complicated (too bad you ran out of time to make the emoji responses work) but it all felt pretty good. I like how the hearts played notes in time with the song, although I wish that pressing a direction did the same.

Very funny, the graphics are hilarious :laughing:

The music is a bit to arythmic for me to succeed, but that's probably just me. Very nice twist on the the theme!

Very funny, I've been trying for a long time, but relationship applications are not for me. Hahahahahah.

Super cool game idea, especially in this genre mix.
Great execution.

Sometimes you don't know exactly what to do, but in this case it's not so bad.
I would have liked to have seen more detailed artwork.

Great, keep it up!!

The music beat is really great. I'm really bad at rhythm games but it was fun anyway. Good job.

I really enjoyed this, one of the best I've played. It took me a while but I eventually got a date :) It's not clear to me whether the different emojis do different things - am I meant to vary them, or can I just keep using the same one?

I got rejected by a girl named Gina after sending her a bunch of eggplant emojis, such realism! Lol jokes aside, this was one of the more amusing rhythm based games I've encountered. The music was good and the inputs were just forgiving enough that I can't blame the game for my lack of rhythm. Interesting genre mash up and great game overall!

More than a game - a fun experience. Nice music. Well done ++

Very enjoyable! The music is so catchy it keeps you playing. I couldn't look up and see what I was sending but I was having fun mashing the correct key in timing. (Maybe that's cause my rhythm gaming skills need leveling up, though. :)

Really cool little game! It's engaging, it's challenging and has a fun to it :)

Good job.

Awesome job! Graphics very simple, but everything comes together nicely. I'm a sucker for rhythm games and this was really fun and music is on point. Just wish there was some feedback to see what missing hearts/arrows affect. Did manage to snag 3 dates though, haha!

Would love to see this expanded upon.

Really fun :smile:

### :heart: What I loved
- cute charming aesthetic and music
- great idea that has lot of potential, you should keep developing it!

### :thought_balloon: feedback
- I was stuck on a conversation with someone for 5 minutes and it didn't seem to be going anywhere. Maybe I'm just the right amount of bad at rhythm games to not fail or succeed.

Great game!!
Didn't like the music thou, it feels like it's unpredictable instead of just hard. You should be able to score by following the music, with the graphics only to give an extra help.
Also, making the chat choices meaningful is exactly the missing piece. But you did a great job in the given time!

Hope you'll expand it!

Really fun idea. I like the music, though it is very hard to hit the hearts sometimes. I try to keep on rhythm, but maybe the window for hitting spacebar could be opened up very slightly. Great concept though :) Fun stuff!

I love rhythm games, so I had to play it. I didn't read the instructions first and didn't get the idea, but on the second try I got it and really had fun "chatting". Rhythm patterns seemed a bit unpredictable to me, but I think I could get used to it after some time. Nice entry and theme match!

PS: Love the OP-1 sounds :)

PPS: I'd be happy if you also try out our games: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/good-hamster-dead-hamster and https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tanktris

great!

Cool concept. At first I thought I needed to match the direction with whatever icon the date had until I realized the icons didn't match your ability set. I was trying to figure out some kind of mapping between face and what to do, like happy face -> respond with eggplant but I couldn't find a connection. On your game page I believe you do say you didn't get around to it and that's alright. I assume you were looking to do something along the lines of teasing out people's characteristics and how they like to talk and then matching it. It would be brilliant since the game is already a bit frantic trying to look up and down and get the mappings correct. Really interesting entry.

Simple and very current game. When I played I was without sound, and I believe that sound should be very fun, but congratulations to the game.

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

I really enjoyed playing your game, that was so much fun! Great music also

Nice music. I have a ​problem with hitting​ the heart. It always miss.
and focus on coming note made me forgot to see on the phone's screen.
:')

Neat concept. I just wish the outcomes didn't seem so random. I was actually able to get a date, but it just seemed to be random luck. The music seemed to really fit the game.

OK so this thing is totally awesome - dumb as hell but ain't that the point ^^# - I really LOVE the music, like fo real t works really well for me, the graphics are really simple but they work really well too - in terms of fameplay it's quite simple to win if you just bash the spacebar... which you may have figured - one way or another, it's the easiest way to enjoy the soundtrack which, again I'm really fond of... well done :-D

Hey! Good job! Congratulations on delivering the entry. I know what you mean of time running out, haha. I think you delivered a cool rhythm game, but the dating sim I can't say I really understood what was happening.

Naturally, it reminds of Tindr, but I'm guessing that's the part that you didn't have enough time to finish?

Still, I enjoyed playing it. The aesthetics have a funny take and the music is cool as well, even if kinda wierd ;)

Well, if you have time, please, take a look at my entry at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/last-stand

Fun take on the theme, but this game also taught me that no matter what I will get rejected forever. :(

There should probably be a way to have better odds to succeed.