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Groovy Gremlinz by XOREAXEAX

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made by XOREAXEAX for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

This is a music game so turn on your sound :)

The Game

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Everything was silent in Gremlintown. Until one day, a Gremlin found a magical Item in the ground – and then came the sound! Join eight brave Gremlins on their quest to find the ultimate groove! Can you dig it?

How to play

  1. Turn on your sound

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  1. Use the (up/down) arrow keys to navigate and collect items. Use the mouse to drag and drop items you have collected. You can scroll in and out for a better view. Equip your gremlins and create your own groove. Walk through portals to travel to new funky dimensions!

Share your creations!

You can generate a code from your gremlin group and share it with others! Warning: When importing a code all current equipped items will be deleted

Technical

A ThinkTank Solutions Production. (a collective of which only one has a ludum dare account)

The concept for this game started a few weeks before Ludum Dare. We didn’t start working on the game itself before the topic was announced. “Every 10 Seconds” defines the BPM of the gremlins. Ideally, the number of gremlins would be 32, but seemed a bit too much for us for the first pitch. Maybe sometime in the future. The game combines Mining RPG aspects with the mechanics of a step sequencer. We hope that it could be a tool to inspire those who enjoy gaming to create music.

Tools

  • Unity
  • Ableton Live
  • Gimp, Krita
  • Pen and Paper
  • Brains (trial version)

Disclaimer: Requires WebGL2

Link https://xoreaxeax.itch.io/groovy-gremlinz
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/groovy-gremlinz

Ratings

Overall 459th 3.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 571th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 48th 4.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1160th 2.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 889th 3.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 70th 4.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 185th 3.658⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 11377
03. Oct 2022 · 22:51 UTC
What an odd and interesting little game. Equipping the gremlins and burrowing the tunnel is really cool! Very cool feature that you can share your creations.
mudlee
05. Oct 2022 · 12:57 UTC
I don't know what should I see. I tried in firefox and chrome but I hear no sound and no matter what I click, type, just some characters walking from left to right.

![Screenshot from 2022-10-05 14-56-43.png](///raw/44d/71/z/524ff.png)
Evgeniya Zapolnova
05. Oct 2022 · 12:59 UTC
I didn't catch at the first moment, but when i did... It's so original and funny!
HagamosVideojuegos
05. Oct 2022 · 13:02 UTC
It's really funny musical game, congratulations.

Maybe need a start screen and anymore to do in the game loop but obviously it's ok in a Game Jam period of development.

Well done!
quabmara
05. Oct 2022 · 13:04 UTC
Enjoyed playing this game. And the sounds are really cool!
Faust_Mi
05. Oct 2022 · 13:08 UTC
Very funny and very confusing...
Branquelo
05. Oct 2022 · 13:15 UTC
It's pretty confusing at first, i think a little tutorial on how to make the things work it's the best.
But i like this idea and the way it was executed!
🎤 XOREAXEAX
05. Oct 2022 · 13:15 UTC
@mudlee thats strange :(
Theoretically you should be able to control the characters by the up and down arrow keys.
We had the problem that the game did not load on an older version of firefox (maybe because of the webgl version) but that might be a different problem..
mudlee
05. Oct 2022 · 13:17 UTC
Yeah I thought that's a bug, but it's the same on chrome and firefox. One thing that might differs from you is that I use Linux (ubuntu). But it should work in chrome at least...
Bhaa_Su
05. Oct 2022 · 13:29 UTC
It's great, when I started giving them different instruments and the music started, I just chill out. Awesome ^^
owca
05. Oct 2022 · 13:35 UTC
This is awesome. Very original idea and good execution. It made me smile all the time and nod my head. Thanks for that! :smile:
elzeu
05. Oct 2022 · 18:23 UTC
After a while playing starts to get more interesting, I hoped to find at some point a 10 second bonus to rearrange the instruments
🎤 XOREAXEAX
07. Oct 2022 · 19:29 UTC
@elzeu it is possible to rearrange the Instruments at any time :) just drag and drop them between the gremlinz. You can also unequip them by just dropping them somewhere
AlexYam
08. Oct 2022 · 06:06 UTC
Its very unique. Someone good with music could make a beautiful build
Kitkii
09. Oct 2022 · 21:00 UTC
Very fun game. I really like music games like this and liked how you had multiple "worlds" that had different types of music options to give a wide range of music types.
ArtofLuba
18. Oct 2022 · 23:33 UTC
Okay, haha. I played it and then didn't know how to turn the music on, and also didn't know that the items were equippable. I went back and read the text to see what else I had missed and saw that people were equipping the sound bytes onto the Gremlinz. Having said that, here are my thoughts!

- Text on-screen would help tutorialize the process,
- Needs more Gremlinz,
- Different levels would be cool.

Overall, seems like a cool, really unique idea that needs a bit more fleshing out! Like some destination they are going to... an intergalactic stage perhaps! Good work!
Hekateras
20. Oct 2022 · 18:44 UTC
This is immensely cute and original
Druvsaft
20. Oct 2022 · 21:10 UTC
Haha, this is strangely addictive! Had a nice little tune going at the end, very clever implementation!
Cole and Jordan Studios
21. Oct 2022 · 00:52 UTC
This was very fun and unexpected! I ended up with some really cool sounding audio
Hawkin
21. Oct 2022 · 00:56 UTC
Pretty groovy concept! I had a great time! The artwork all integrated nicely, and the instrument tones definitely gave me underground vibes.

My code: 108,111,406,;202,110,103,;103,401,;111,413,513,;113,407,401,;101,407,110,;101,108,;102,504,;