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Multitask Dancing by buddhaman

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made by buddhaman for LD34 (COMPO)
A rhythm game with two buttons. (And mouse).

Written in JAVA using Libgdx.
The music is made with garageband and without competence. Only the music for 'certain death mode' was an original composition.

IMPORTANT:
I tried giving him hair, but ran out of time.

Instructions:
When the arrow is inside a tile. Move in the direction of the arrow while standing on that tile.
Meanwhile touch the circles to move the arms of the bald man.
left - z, a, left arrow
right - x, d, right arrow

Mouse.
Jar https://www.dropbox.com/s/6i73jbthk2dt4a0/LD34Dance.jar?dl=0
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jdaori6c5hobo6/Bullets.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=16058

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall 3.69 163
Audio 3.69 89
Fun 3.92 44
Graphics 3.08 480
Humor 3.97 24
Innovation 3.47 278
Theme 3.81 418

Feedback

Evannex
14. Dec 2015 · 05:15 UTC
This is incredibly cute! And really hard to score well, Great job!
krashja
14. Dec 2015 · 21:11 UTC
Awesome game, nice music, and cool mechanics, took a little to understand the mechanic, cool.
broiledvictory
14. Dec 2015 · 21:11 UTC
Very cute game, just missing a lose state, it's fun though, I like the humor of it too, especially the hardest mode hahaha.
LMT
14. Dec 2015 · 21:12 UTC
Attempting to run the .jar file does nothing for me, and I'm not sure how to debug this so I can't play this, sorry.
VascoF
14. Dec 2015 · 21:14 UTC
Love the character animation :)
timeshapers
14. Dec 2015 · 21:16 UTC
Brilliant. I had a blast. It doesn't have much of a replay value, but I audibly laughed when I tried the hardest level with the sucky flute music.
I think this is the game I rated highest, it's just so funny and fun.
Only criticism I have is I feel like there could be better indicators to my success or failure.
Cluster Parable
14. Dec 2015 · 22:39 UTC
Nice work!!
I laughed so hard with the "certain death mode" :D
dmecke
14. Dec 2015 · 22:39 UTC
Great music game! Music games are very tough and I would have liked the controls to be a bit more precise (did I hit the spot?). The dancing character is the highlight of course! :-)
Ogniok
15. Dec 2015 · 13:21 UTC
Very solid compo entry, excellent idea, great mechanics. Love it!
Catblocker
15. Dec 2015 · 17:12 UTC
lol, very nice game. Really liked the mechanic. And that very hard song was 10/10.

One thing to improve would to maybe make the graphics better, especially in the background. Maybe make so something is moving there? because right now the smoke is just sitting still.

But other than that a really great and innovative game
Monochrome Bears
15. Dec 2015 · 17:13 UTC
This game make my day! :D
icereci
15. Dec 2015 · 20:12 UTC
I love this game. and certain death mode is the way to go.
dance moves are really fluid. Well made.
TheJackiMonster
15. Dec 2015 · 20:35 UTC
Ok, the first difficulties are really cool, but the last one is a joke, right? ( Not possible.. ) Anyway, it is real fun! ^^
Darkflint
16. Dec 2015 · 22:04 UTC
We had an really similar idea, but your entry is better :)
Jezzamon
17. Dec 2015 · 11:49 UTC
I love the way he moves around. :)

I found this game pretty tricky but I like how you can't lose, you just have fun

A suggestion: It'd be nice if the circles were more visible
Jezzamon
17. Dec 2015 · 11:52 UTC
HAHAHA the hardest mode!!!!!!!!

You already got 5 for humour but now it's like... mega 5.
Zulgot
17. Dec 2015 · 19:43 UTC
I was laughing my ass off - really nice game :D
exhidor
20. Dec 2015 · 13:11 UTC
That game is really funny ! Haha ! I love it !
tantumgames
20. Dec 2015 · 13:34 UTC
Funny game. Great mechanic and cool idea.
PotatoGrader
20. Dec 2015 · 13:35 UTC
This was amazing. Really great game.
Mantlair
20. Dec 2015 · 14:01 UTC
Dude, definetly let us vote on mood. I really enjoed him looking at his hand like it's a wild alien or something.

Also you can consider add some curves to follow with the hand at the same time. Like spirals and such. I just movet it with rhythm and it was cool enough. That would really make a complete gameplay with this concept.
ellipticaldoor
20. Dec 2015 · 16:27 UTC
The controls are very hard to use but it was fun.
laaph
21. Dec 2015 · 07:22 UTC
Yay a dancing game! Awesome awesome awesome! I scored 180 on the hardest mode!

My only complaint is that it was hard to determine what counted as a success or not! Maybe some better feedback for a sense of timing. It seemed that hitting arrows on the beat wasn't exactly it, but maybe I was supposed to be hitting on the next beat? It wasn't clear to me.
euske
26. Dec 2015 · 15:45 UTC
Did you use your real recorder for the last song?