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Dance with Death by Hengen

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made by Hengen for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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In this Game you face off with Death himself! The stakes are as high as can be, because losing to death means... DEATH!

Use the arrow keys and time them perfectly do sick dance moves! Show Death who is boss, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, disco until sunrise!

I recommend downloading the build, the online scoreboard doesn't work with WebGL. I also recommend playing in full screen!

The music was made by the incredibly talented and generous YaboiMatoi

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Link https://simex.itch.io/dance-with-death
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/dance-with-death

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

EmberUshi
05. Apr 2022 · 00:04 UTC
The arrows not being in :arrow_left: :arrow_down: :arrow_up: :arrow_right: order, the DDR order, got my brain heated.

I'm also not a fan of the speed, it's very slow.

The music is boppin', and death be jammin'.

The score board didn't work for me, didn't seem to load. If it's anything like the trouble I've had with this before, you might need to look at Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. That's just a wild guess though.
Henrik Ganard
05. Apr 2022 · 05:53 UTC
What a nice little game, to bad the highscore system did not load for me, I could see myself trying to beat the other players scores.

I have to agree with EmberUshi about the arrow position, it really messed with my mind. I would personally would have liked Left, Up, Down and RIght. Maybe a setting where the player can choose the order of the keys.
simex
05. Apr 2022 · 07:23 UTC
Rhythm games like DDR are usually not my forte, but this was exceptional. Banging soundtrack and an awesome amount of juice (loved the fireworks etc.) that you get when you progress!
Saryah
05. Apr 2022 · 13:43 UTC
Ah, reading these other comments, I understand that's why I was having brain derp at the start, the arrows were in an unfamilar order. Otherwise a fun game, I enjoying rhythm games a lot, and it fits the theme nicely. Oh. No. I typo'd my own name in the scoreboard. Whoops.
Deylinia
05. Apr 2022 · 15:56 UTC
Cool idea for a game!
This was a lot of fun and the music was good.

Is it just me or is the music not really synced up with the speed of the arrows you need to hit? I felt like I was trying to keep a beat different to the one than I was hearing which was a bit jarring.

Overall really cool tho! I got 2575 points.
BarelyEvenGames
05. Apr 2022 · 18:20 UTC
I loved the music and the visuals here! The dynamic camera really helped everything pop. I’m a big fan of rhythm games, though like the guy above said the order of the arrows threw me off a bit. Great work!
SleepyStudios
19. Apr 2022 · 15:09 UTC
Really liked this. The camera angles and the particle effects made the whole game feel really satisfying. The music was really good too so overall nice work!