Signal Scrubber by Steven Garberg

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made by Steven Garberg for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

https://stevengarberg.itch.io/signal-scrubber

Strange signals are buried in the noise. Your job is to find them.

Adjust frequencies, stabilize waveforms, and isolate transmissions before they disappear.

Click and drag controls to tune the signal.

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Ratings

Given 15🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

takhomasac
Apr 21st · 02:14 UTC
the truth is out there 👽👽👽
GreenRadiation
Apr 21st · 02:46 UTC
It's a cool game, with beautiful animations—but I can't get past the third broadcast. It keeps giving me the game over. Is that how it should be?

But otherwise, the animations are really cool, and the sounds are funny — great job!
breadstick
Apr 21st · 02:49 UTC
A really neat atmospheric experience! Loved the way the art (audio and visuals) all complement each other--felt really cohesive, art-direction-wise. I want to believe 🛸🛸🛸
Pavel Goncharov
Apr 21st · 02:50 UTC
I like the concept. I wish it would have a longer duration with story-driven events.
martinfernandezGD
Apr 21st · 02:55 UTC
This is great!
We had similar ideas; it's interesting to see how you all imagined it.
LDJam user 384829
Apr 21st · 03:04 UTC
Nice game. I really enjoyed it, not difficult or anything, just a nice relaxing game. The graphics were great, but (at least for me), I felt rotating the knobs with the mouse was a bit difficult. Other than that, well done!
mugenzerox
Apr 21st · 03:33 UTC
Really cool idea, and I liked how there were multiple levels of "scramble" to get through. Definitely a concept that deserves fleshing out!
digital bacon
Apr 21st · 03:37 UTC
Neat little game. Loved the graphics and sound, gameplay was pretty neat though the controls are a bit fiddly with a mouse.

Excellent work -- well done!
LDJam user 424326
Apr 21st · 04:19 UTC
It looks very atmospheric, and I really like the audio design.
At first, I didn’t understand how to use the circular controls—I expected them to require matching the mouse movement along the circle, but it turned out to be much simpler
benjaminm
Apr 21st · 05:35 UTC
Neat concept! I love the atmosphere, it's kinda spooky. It'd be nice if there were a couple more broadcasts, and perhaps a more clear ending.
nyxkn
Apr 21st · 09:39 UTC
Brilliant game! A shame it's so short. I had a similar idea for tuning into signals for my game but you implemented it so well! Very intuitive gameplay. Great art and atmosphere! I was pretty spooked when I saw the second image clear up :sweat_smile:
Loig
Apr 21st · 11:48 UTC
Nice idea, the sounds are very satisfying as well as the atmosphere of the game. Well done!
LDJam user 383444
Apr 21st · 13:07 UTC
Loved the theme and the mood, loved tinkering with the knobs, even if I had a bit of trouble understanding how to actually turn them at first (it was a bit counter-intuitive to have to move my mouse up and down to turn the knob left and right) After a few tries I got the hang of it and could decrypt files faster than my assigned FBI agent.

Great entry !
eXTeeGi
Apr 21st · 18:38 UTC
Short, simple, to the point. The dial controls were confusing at first. I expected to have to make a circular motion. I like the art!
ikado
Apr 23rd · 18:00 UTC
short and sweet! i liked the music a lot and all the descrambling interactions felt very intuitive. with a story throughline i think this would be really solid!
kanity
Apr 24th · 15:32 UTC
The text popping up disappeared way too fast, I didn't have time to read it at all. Turning the knobs felt counterintuitive (like i was moving mouse left and right and couldn't quite figure out how to turn those knobs conveniently). The visuals in the screen looked pretty cool. I like the alien/conspiracy/illuminati theme going on in the game. The main screen (desk) fits the atmosphere fell. But in the end, I kept failing - because of the knobs, ig :') Fits the jam theme well, tho!
aniretti
Apr 24th · 15:45 UTC
A fairly simple but atmospheric game! It would be cool to add a narrative here to find out what kind of signal we actually received...
3blackpixels
Apr 27th · 12:28 UTC
Cool game but short. And I wish some intaraction with enviroment.