Track Stacker by Generic Games

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made by Generic Games for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

You're a DJ, and it's your job to build up music to keep the party alive!

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Stack layers of music tracks together in this arcade-style game, but be careful - every layer of music you place becomes a new obstacle. You've got to avoid knocking into old music tracks as you try to add to the stack to make it varied as possible!

Ratings

Overall 1176th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 970th 3.44⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 40th 4.26⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1349th 3.6⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1892th 3.06⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 122th 4.1⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

Xentiie
20. Apr 2020 · 21:54 UTC
Very innovative game !
SaraFilipa
20. Apr 2020 · 21:56 UTC
I really like this. Simple concept but really engaging with a pleasing visual style. I just want to keep playing! Congrats
TheGrandpa
20. Apr 2020 · 21:56 UTC
I like the concept but it did not work on my computer. A/D/</> didn't do anything.
filgreen3
20. Apr 2020 · 21:59 UTC
This game bring new mechanics, and that is awasome.
🎤 Generic Games
21. Apr 2020 · 10:30 UTC
@thegrandpa Uh-oh, that's a shame. I believe it might be an issue with focusing the game :/ if you refresh and click on a blank part of the game, it *should* (fingers-crossed) work! Certainly something to fix if I can.
Artyom Volkov
21. Apr 2020 · 12:01 UTC
Ilike the idea of the game and how it feels. But I didn't get how to play it firstly. But later, I get it. Nice work.
Claws Up Games
21. Apr 2020 · 13:58 UTC
Nice concept ! But I can't do much than clicing new pattern on top :(
TheDouche
21. Apr 2020 · 14:00 UTC
fun little game! keep on going!
Malai
21. Apr 2020 · 14:45 UTC
Took a while to grasp the concept of having to have different kind of tracks to get more points, but then i got a score of 900! Loved how the music was ever changing
🎤 Generic Games
21. Apr 2020 · 16:29 UTC
@malai Oh wow! That's an impressive score :) Thank you for playing!
Aj Jones
22. Apr 2020 · 06:42 UTC
I like the game concept a lot! Great idea for keeping the party alive!
Russ Moonbase
22. Apr 2020 · 07:30 UTC
I enjoyed the concept of this game. It took me a second to wrap my head around it but I got the hang of it. I only ever got 3 tracks to stack and I wanted more!
BryLaMare
22. Apr 2020 · 07:39 UTC
The concept here was real good, took me a minute to get a rhythm and figure out the scoring, not sure I have fully figured that out still, but really enjoyed the simple game play with good tunes. I.m a DJ now :p
Asue
22. Apr 2020 · 09:49 UTC
It took me a long time to understand that I had to avoid items rather than rush into them x) Very interesting concept, fun to play, good job man =D
🎤 Generic Games
22. Apr 2020 · 17:03 UTC
@russ-moonbase Thank you! You get multiple extra tracks popping up if you get enough points ;) that's totally unexplained in-game though, I might want to hint at the bonus tracks if you're getting close, and make it a little less hardcore to get there haha.
🎤 Generic Games
22. Apr 2020 · 17:13 UTC
@brylamare DJ? Yes you are! :)

The scoring system is totally confusing - but I'm glad you stuck through with it and figured it out anyway! Thanks for playing!
Joule
23. Apr 2020 · 14:55 UTC
I like the idea... but the music needs a bit of tweaking (because it's a game about DJing...) Good game overall
Bryoche
23. Apr 2020 · 16:39 UTC
Hello really loved the idea and concept, the music feel nice, and dynamic. At first got some difficulty with the controller the space bar when u play with arrow key and the mousse at the same time is tricky.
Nice job ♥
Guille
23. Apr 2020 · 16:45 UTC
Cool game nice combination of music and game play. Good job! Keep it up!
ChevalBancal
23. Apr 2020 · 17:00 UTC
I love it ! Cool concept ! I really want to see you do something more with it and make it into a full polished game !
Guilb
23. Apr 2020 · 17:01 UTC
Great music game, cool mixing of retro arcade and nice music. Good Job!
🎤 Generic Games
23. Apr 2020 · 18:31 UTC
Thanks @bryoche - that's some very fair feedback! I could add hotkeys, maybe that would help with controls? :)
🎤 Generic Games
23. Apr 2020 · 18:31 UTC
@chevalbancal Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed :)
sky_fighter
24. Apr 2020 · 12:28 UTC
Game is really cool, Super satisfying when you get a really good sounding music playing (not like the game ever sounded bad tho), I can imagine this could be a pretty fun mobile game.
Alchemic
09. May 2020 · 07:28 UTC
This is really fun to play, but some of the tracks seem quite aggressive when you're falling! It was more or less impossible to dodge the red blocks. It was very difficult to survive, I felt like I had to be going very fast. I wanted to just chill and enjoy the music lol.

Also, there was no audio during the tutorial, not sure if that's intentional or not.
🎤 Generic Games
13. May 2020 · 16:11 UTC
Thank you for the feedback! Agreed with the pink-red tracks, they can accelerate to far too fast. Thankfully the game doesn't really mind if you knock over only a few things. I'll probably slow them right down - also planning to lock some of the harder-to-dodge tracks for later in the game, perhaps that would help.

Not sure about the audio, that's a pretty serious issue (considering the point of the game haha), but it seems no-one's been able to reproduce that yet. So I'll guess it's just a very rare quirk? Sorry for the delayed response, and thanks again for playing :)