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Beatz! by PC Ferreira

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made by PC Ferreira for LD34 (JAM)
To the players: Thanks for all the compliments and critics! It really motivates me to keep chasing the dream of game designer career.

Theme: Growing

BEATZ is a rhythm musical top-down game where you need to GROW your cell by shooting sound waves on the music-beat to destroy enemy cells.
Survive until the music ends, good luck and enjoy the beat
Play it on your browser!

- SHOOT when your cell becomes green during the beat.
- GROW your size and soundwave with each hit.
- INCREASE your growth rate, sound strength and credits with consecutive hits.
- UNLOCK new tracks.
- SURVIVE until the music ends, dodging the blue cells with W,A,S,D and aiming the sound wave with your mouse. They will hunt you according the rhythm.

Development and Game Design: Paulo Cesar "a.k.a. PC" Ferreira
Art: free-royalty assets edited with effects
Music: free-downloadable music

Special thanks to the continuously growing Brazilian indie developer community.
Web http://didigameboy.com/testegame/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=62702

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.36 475
Audio(Jam) 3.97 75
Fun(Jam) 3.29 402
Graphics(Jam) 2.96 764
Innovation(Jam) 3.27 424
Mood(Jam) 3.25 483
Theme(Jam) 3.08 904

Feedback

Teekeks
14. Dec 2015 · 10:02 UTC
Great fun!
jcwelgemoed
14. Dec 2015 · 10:06 UTC
Nice concept and fun to play. Music got a bit much at times though but I can see the potential. Nice job
doitle
14. Dec 2015 · 10:06 UTC
This is a blast. Great choices on the music. They have a great pumping feel that makes it easy to follow the beat. The timing felt a littttle loose at times but generally it works. I think you've got a winner on your hands. You should get with an artist who can make you some real assets specific for your game and get this on a flash portal or somewhere. This actually seems like a great game to also get with a musician who can score your game with some music since this is a music game at heart. Maybe try to hook up with someone on Soundcloud who would do it for exposure.
Khallane
14. Dec 2015 · 10:09 UTC
Cool game but for me it doesnt respect one of the themes (two button controls)
Ghen
14. Dec 2015 · 10:09 UTC
love the music dude, and the visual pretty great too
simoroshka
14. Dec 2015 · 10:12 UTC
It's fun and the gameplay is well done. But I think the rule is that you need to make all assets yourself, including music and sounds.
Leon Möhring
14. Dec 2015 · 10:13 UTC
Its hard to forecast when you will have to press for the beat, but the art of the characters is nice and music and colors also great
cimbaman
14. Dec 2015 · 11:48 UTC
The Pause is very disruptive of game play, I thought the game has crashed when it first happened. The cell gets too small some times. The menu is also small even in full screen.
I like the game, but there are too many things that disrupt, make it feel not so good.
p.s. I have no idea how you grow, is it random or what?
🎤 PC Ferreira
14. Dec 2015 · 13:28 UTC
Thanks for all the comments! As a beginner designer, it's really motivational and gives me the direction to improving.

@Khallane, Thanks for the comment! Actually I tried to focus on the Growing theme.
@simoroshka Thanks! This rule is only for the Compo, I've submitted to the Jam.
@cimbaman Thanks for the great hints! I'm trying to improve it. With the short time I had, I was focusing only on the problem @doitle mentioned: the beat timing. I'll update you when I fix it after LD.
@doitle Your comment really motivated me to go ahead with this project and game design at all, thanks very much, I'll keep you guys updated!
Modoc73
14. Dec 2015 · 13:35 UTC
Music is the best I've heard so far. Found the game a bit hard to grasp what to do. Seems like I just get attacked my blue cells.
MrDave
14. Dec 2015 · 13:42 UTC
I wish you had of trimmed the songs down a little, while I would have liked to try all the levels I only did a few because I felt the music got repetitive.
shadowforce768
14. Dec 2015 · 13:57 UTC
Great game and great concept, but I believe everything has to be made by you.

Great use of theme!
MintArcade
14. Dec 2015 · 13:58 UTC
Very cool game, have lots of fun
Aaants
14. Dec 2015 · 13:58 UTC
Trippy - in the best of ways!
freddyw9
14. Dec 2015 · 15:53 UTC
That was fun, I like the concept.
jamaster96
14. Dec 2015 · 15:57 UTC
Idgi
Tutti Ankka
14. Dec 2015 · 16:00 UTC
Fun rhythm game, concept was very nice!
kuhnerdm
14. Dec 2015 · 16:02 UTC
Fantastic game, tons of fun. The timing seems a tad bit off, but I love the concept, and the tracks are fantastic.
dj_pale
14. Dec 2015 · 22:57 UTC
Background got a little disturbing and the beat pattern was a bit hard to follow.
AntiMatterTape
15. Dec 2015 · 01:01 UTC
It could definitely use some sort of visual aid to go along with the beat instead of the long text based tutorial because I was a bit confused as to what part of the beat I was supposed to click too.
gkxd
15. Dec 2015 · 02:04 UTC
When I was playing, I accidentally hit the pause button which was disorienting. I couldn't figure out when larger waves would shoot out either.

Other than that, the game was fun.
justinooncx
15. Dec 2015 · 02:35 UTC
Funky soundtrack, and with an interesting blend of twin-stick shooting and rhythm games! Well done!
smoreley
15. Dec 2015 · 02:40 UTC
I might of been head bobbing to the beat while playing this :D. Neat game, enjoyed playing it.

Maybe I'm weird but the text for the menu was near unreadable (only through squinting and guess work was I able to get to work).
lXxGarrisonxXl
15. Dec 2015 · 04:04 UTC
Cool game! Rhythm games are some of my favorite. I focused on music a lot in my entry too!
x92rwzb
15. Dec 2015 · 09:56 UTC
Nice rhythm game!
Zeezgames
15. Dec 2015 · 22:06 UTC
I love music type games so fair play i enjoy this alot :) proper going at the music :D

Well Done!!
ploy
15. Dec 2015 · 23:56 UTC
Awesome, man :) But pause button is too big, you'd better place it on the top-right corner of the screen
h.attila
16. Dec 2015 · 00:04 UTC
I really enjoyed this one, although I tend to like rhythm games in general. Nice effects, cool tracks. Reminded me of Beat Hazard, which is a great thing. :)
Jod
16. Dec 2015 · 09:47 UTC
Wow, first rythm game I've played on here. Excellent mix of audio with gameplay!
Crawler Studios
16. Dec 2015 · 14:22 UTC
Good entry, pretty fun.
Taffaz
16. Dec 2015 · 18:19 UTC
Really cool game. Fits the theme and is a great take on a rhythm game tat I haven't seen before.
Crosstales
16. Dec 2015 · 22:04 UTC
Great game and the audio tracks are awesome!
I played it way too often ;-)
Very well done!
nunesbarbosa
17. Dec 2015 · 02:02 UTC
It is a hard game.. have potential.
The music is really cool too but you already said that you used free music.
Allthebees
17. Dec 2015 · 02:57 UTC
Cool idea! Love rhythm games! The music is and art is not to my taste but there's a lot of potential for a great game, I enjoyed the mechanics a lot.
NoWandStudios
17. Dec 2015 · 15:48 UTC
So original game. I love the music!
DrFallos
18. Dec 2015 · 11:04 UTC
This was a interesting idea and very good use of the theme - nice job.
bradur
18. Dec 2015 · 13:02 UTC
Nice beat game. Music was cool and the graphics were nice. The game was quite hard at first though.
Crashmore Studios
18. Dec 2015 · 15:26 UTC
Cool game! Did you program a beat detection algorithm during a weekend? Good choice of music too. It was a little difficult to time the shooting by only the change of color. Maybe some kind of indicator before you actually have to press would make it a little more intuitive, like a circle around the cell that gets smaller, and signals to player to shoot when it's as small as the player cell. Just a thought :) Really good job!
JamesMowery
19. Dec 2015 · 06:12 UTC
Not really sure what's happening. I'm not sure that it's working for me. No sound. On Safari on Mac.
23
19. Dec 2015 · 07:25 UTC
Nice fun shooter! I didn't really understand why the blue things changed size and only seemed to explode sometimes, but other than that it was solid.
Weeping Rupee
19. Dec 2015 · 16:24 UTC
Fun game-- good music choice for beat.
I didn't see any penalty for spamming my wave blast though. Not all games need a penalty for hitting on the off beat but I think this one could have.
ramoncb
20. Dec 2015 · 03:33 UTC
It's simple but is very fun! Good job!

As people already said, maybe in the future would be cool if the game have a penality for miss the beats, maybe in the score, or some "accuracy" percentage bonus.
Hot Box Games
20. Dec 2015 · 14:46 UTC
Great game!
Was a little difficult to get the rhythm going, but super well presented!
Good job
Mikhail
20. Dec 2015 · 16:51 UTC
Loved the game! The only problem I with it was that it froze randomly (or at least seemed random). It wasn't at a specific time in game but it did seem to freeze when I clicked.