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Signal Surfer by hulien22

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made by hulien22 for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

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Your singing pitch is the signal! :hearnoevil: Annoy your neighbours as you sing your way through this physics puzzler. Create voice tracks which create platforms to roll the ball around obstacles to the target!

Featuring

:joystick: 9 puzzles to solve!

:musical_score: audio zones which record your pitch to create platforms!

:satellite: signal jammers that block your voice!

:black_circle: black holes which affect gravity and destroy your ball!

:basketball: bouncy balls!

Controls :microphone:

Note: Microphone and Mouse is required to play

  • Left click on audio zones to record your audio
  • Use your voice when recording and sing, whistle, or scream the right pitch to draw your signal :scream_cat:

Note: before playing you will calibrate the audio input. This will control the pitch range for audio zones and filter out background noise. You can re-calibrate if you run into any issues.

Credits :clipboard:

  • @hulien22: Coding

  • @ImInSoftware: Coding

Tools :hammer:

  • Godot 4.6

Screenshots :camera:

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Note: recommended to play on a chromium browser due to audio playback issues in firefox.

If you're having issues with the audio, try re-calibrating and changing the min threshold

Link https://hulien22.itch.io/signal-surfer
Link https://hulien22.itch.io/signal-surfer
Link https://fantastic-strudel-706e71.netlify.app/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/signal-surfer-1

Ratings

Overall 229th 3.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 92th 3.95⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 8th 4.476⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 77th 4.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 566th 3.45⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 312th 3.567⭐ 17🧑‍⚖️
Humor 147th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 618th 3.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

Lexu
Apr 22nd · 04:51 UTC
A password is needed to access the game! :)
🎤 hulien22
Apr 22nd · 05:15 UTC
@lexu oops forgot to actually hit publish on itch - should be available now!
Lexu
Apr 22nd · 05:41 UTC
Well my dog definitely looked at me funny while I was playing haha. This is an entertaining game! It would be nice if the time you had to hold a note was a tiny bit shorter, I found myself running out of breath sometimes. Might just be my lung capacity though. Great job!
Julester
Apr 24th · 06:44 UTC
What a cool concept. a bit akward to play but very unique. good job!
caeonosphere
Apr 24th · 06:49 UTC
![sing.png](///raw/8d0/41/z/728b9.png)

This is hilarious. I just wanted you to see that someone at least beat a level, even if that someone had to unplug their fridge to reduce the background noise so the game could hear them. Planning on playing more at a more singing-appropriate time of day.
RedPhoenix2412
Apr 24th · 15:55 UTC
What a fun concept! I had a blast playing it! Unfortunately, I didn't get very far because my mic stopped recording at one point, leaving gaps in the line.
🎤 hulien22
Apr 25th · 03:28 UTC
@redphoenix2412 + anyone else having mic issues - I recommend recalibrating and tweaking the min db threshold in the top left. If its not picking you up, then you can lower that value more (you can also just sing louder). If its picking up too much, then you should try raising that value.

If you're singing, then your final min/max should be somewhere between 50-500 Hz (values will be higher if you try whistling or other sounds).
Archaeognathus
Apr 25th · 07:07 UTC
I tried calibrating a few times and also followed your steps above, but I can't get it to work :(
In the online version, it's just bouncing around and has a lot of gaps. The Windows version works a bit better, but even when cheating by using a signal tone generator, I could not finish the second level.

I used to love Line Rider and really like the idea of your game. As someone who has zero musical understanding and has no clue about sound design, it always amazes me what people come up with :)
Aune
Apr 25th · 07:54 UTC
A super original idea! It’s really alternative!!
I don’t have a very nice voice and no singing experience. So it was really that hard (I considered using a synth to play ^^).
But I had a lot of fun trying the levels
Played on SteamOS Linux + Firefox, I had no issues at all. Thanks for the web build!
kkotova1
Apr 25th · 10:48 UTC
The idea is super fun, you did a great job!
kintsugi
Apr 25th · 10:54 UTC
For me it was quite hard to play, but my gf completed most levels. Very fun game, GJ!
VenomousMouse
Apr 27th · 07:31 UTC
Very nice concept. A bit demanding on having good microphone, but that's nuances. Nicely done!
Tyrannas
Apr 27th · 14:33 UTC
Amazing concept ! But it's soooo hard, I don't know if it's my microphone or what but it's waaaay too hard to control the voice progressivelly, for me it's really jumping for high to low with almost no middleground. Also I would recommend showing the pitch of the voice before recording the box, maybe 1-2s where we can see which note to aim for before even recording ! Would be super useful and avoid trying stuff during the recording which break the curve !
Neox
Apr 27th · 16:50 UTC
Awesome idea! I couldn't get too far since my high pitched voice started to scare the cats and with a more limited range the game got very difficult. It would have been nice if you could also speed up the recording as a sort of accessibility option. Multiple times my voice started to crack near the end of the recording and then the whole line got ruined. A mute button within the game would have been nice too since it liked to bounce all over the place when ending a line.
jelch
Apr 29th · 04:07 UTC
Much cooler idea and implementation then my microphone game!
VerttiXPertti
Apr 29th · 10:58 UTC
So funny and well made, but also so difficult and sometimes aggravating. Sometimes the note would jump high with me just making a deep noise. But still this was so refreshing and the system worked way better than I would have initially assumed. Good job!
Conduit
May 02nd · 06:42 UTC
I have never in my days seen such a concept come to life like this. I had a blast making a fool out of myself making weird noises to get the correct path to the flag lol

I definitely did not calibrate the mic correctly but still had a great time regardless. This has to be one of the best ideas to come out of this jam hands down. Also, the background reminded me of Uniracers for SNES, just a fun little anecdote XD thanks and well done!
ZungryWare
May 02nd · 22:13 UTC
I recorded my playthrough of your game with comments. Timestamps are in the description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABtUhFtFEM