LiliesPond by wo_ri_gou_le
A Cyber zen type of water pond featuring:
Extra fancy water pond
WaterLilies
A creature that moves and lays
And you player as a magic elf sending signals managing all this weird little pond

This game features a beat driven mechanic, make sure you enabled sound. and the linux build is not tested, could not run but worth a try()
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/liliespond |
Ratings
| Overall | 197th | 3.26⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 198th | 3.104⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 113th | 3.5⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 233th | 3.04⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 93th | 3.74⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 147th | 3.271⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 112th | 3.58⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
Super cool effect with the background, didn't even think about doing something like this.
Though I think you need to punish the player when they try to move the mouse in the wrong time, because right now you can just constantly move without trying to match the beat. But maybe the game just makes you want to not cheat.
I think you've got a good core mechanic and I didn't get immediately frustrated by input latency like I often do with rhythm-based games, but I would have liked some more variation in the music, the level, the number of bugs, etc.
@skale Yeah that's why I call it a "zen" experience lol.(I did tried add things like that but didn't work well, feels too punishing, it is hard to make it feel right, specially when lacks fine tuning, however it definatly offers better depth and I do wish I could achieve something like that.
@barnabewild Thanks for playing and yes it lacks a bit of juice, I spent too much time on graphics so that is one of the outcomes haha
@henk Yeah I also noticed that issue, didn't find an elegant solution to it back then, and I did spend serval hours writting the rhythm part of the system glad it works for you!

Yeah - much greater than the sum of it's parts. This is why I love game jams! A beautiful and brilliantly unique thing.

Seeing LD page go wavy and colourful added to the atmosphere of the game xD
I have completed it! Short and sweet. My only complaing is that I feel like with zen pond the calmer and chill music would be more fitting. Thought I understand upbeat music was used to easier detect the beat, it felt like the music did not feel the atmosphere of the game. But other than that - a cool experience! :D

Neat that you have to really think about your movement because of the way the fly moves, great design!