A bard's Journey by Kanonix
A Bard's Journey mixes Typing Game with RPG elements. Play as a Bard during his initiatory trip to become a professional.
Follow the rythm and convince people to be fan of your music !
You'll find music sheets on your way. Collect them to master your music and make it even more convincing !
This game was done in less than 48h for the Ludum Dare 45.
Additional Informations : - This game is an APK file, so it's for ANDROID only. - Some features that I really wanted to add are missing because of the time, but the main mechanics are here.
I hope you'll enjoy playing the game as much as I enjoyed making it !



| Youtube | https://kanonix.itch.io/bard-journey |
| Youtube | https://kanonix.itch.io/bard-journey |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/a-bards-journey |
Ratings
| Overall | 293th | 3.303⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 227th | 3.262⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 292th | 3.117⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 439th | 2.708⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 338th | 3.016⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 145th | 3.402⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 96th | 3.246⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 207th | 3.254⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 91🗨️ |
And am not an artist at first, so doing the graphics took most of my time ^^

But overall it does look and feel like a finished game, which is awesome. Good job!
@blint6 Very nice criticism, thanks a lot for this ! I agree that it's more of a typing game, though the rythm to follow was the different parameters from the notes : Speed, instance speed, "wave" degree, ...
Maybe the term rythm was inappropriate. Thanks again for this kind feedback !
It seemed too easy at first, but it picks up, though I do find the progression a bit slow.
If the game pleases to a lot of people (like it seems to be the case) I'll take time to rework it a bit ^^
All that to say, this is really great! Does it have an end that I wasn't good enough to get to? :D
Moreover, you can't win the game, it's an endless runner. However I must admit that there is some mechanics that I didn't have time to implement, but it will come in a future version probably :)
Finally, I know the issue about the line moving and causing the player to loose points no matter what. This is a design question that I didn't have time to fix, but I'll probably look into it since everyone is enjoying the game, I might polish it and release it, I'll see :)
@webus Fast and simple ! Thanks a lot mate !
("There was a problem while parsing the package" after tapping the APK to install)
@kruemelkeksfan Oh I couldn't check that, I only have an Android so I could not run tests on other devices, really sorry :(
@eifersuuucht Thank you ! With all the comments, maybe I'll finish it, I still didn't decide yet :)
@bootak Aha thanks ! I kind of laughed too when I made the animations :D Quite hard for me since am not an artist, but very entertaining !
Is it difficult to get to the 20 rating mark?
Great entry - congrats on the achievement :thumbsup_tone1:
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
But other than that, getting the 20 ratings required me to try a lot of Games. It's my first Time at Ludum Dare so I wanted to get things done right ! :)
@igoreshka thank you for the kind comment ^^
@igoreshka I'll definitely try Godot ! But I work on Unity since 5 years now so am pretty fine with it :) And pretty effective apparently :D
But yeah of course I enjoyed it, I love the mood of participants around hère, it Can Do us only good !
@brallex Thank you ^^ It may be a little game but I worked really hard and didn't sleep a lot :p
I like your music ^^
I just have a question : is the black bars where you're supposed to tap intended or is the graphic bugging on my device (since it look totally different than the art style of everything else)?

i love art style, music and UI design , good job !