Incandescent by Ray Himmel

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made by Ray Himmel for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

Bring colors back to the world!

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Catch all the fireflies to the rhythm to brighten the day and to find your artistic self.

Created by We'll Name It Later team:

Ray Himmel Team lead, game designer, manager, developer, composer

Dimoseek/Deimas Developer

Horangi Background artist

CH'riegel Character artist

Wendi_Go UI artist

saberhagen133 Sound designer

Two versions of the game with different gameplay are available due to that some unexpected forking occured during the development, the dark one (first) being the original idea and the bright one (second) being a backup plan (but we somewhat managed to make both). We managed to do only one level but it's a good start. Enjoy!

Ratings

Overall 755th 3.344⭐ 50🧑‍⚖️
Fun 788th 3.112⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 748th 3.041⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Theme 927th 3.02⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 312th 4.021⭐ 50🧑‍⚖️
Audio 129th 3.896⭐ 50🧑‍⚖️
Mood 468th 3.596⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Given 76🗳️ 80🗨️

Feedback

SteD
07. Oct 2024 · 22:53 UTC
Interesting concept for the game. I really like the visuals and how everything is unfolding as you play. Great job!
Ripsa
07. Oct 2024 · 22:58 UTC
Love the idea and the visual but I'm really bad at rythme game XD
Oinkle
07. Oct 2024 · 23:16 UTC
Very chill game, I like the music and beautiful artwork!
sqrd.max
07. Oct 2024 · 23:27 UTC
Nice, very comfy game.
Ayamari
07. Oct 2024 · 23:31 UTC
Music, notes and the hitbox for button seemed to mismatch with each other, not too joyful while playing
D_omino
07. Oct 2024 · 23:42 UTC
Awesome!!
gamesplusjames
07. Oct 2024 · 23:59 UTC
This was such a great cosy game. Loved the music and art. Great job!
WeirdBitGames
08. Oct 2024 · 00:23 UTC
Really lovely music and such lovely visual art too!
Tharinda Kodikara
08. Oct 2024 · 01:31 UTC
Cool art style :heart_eyes:
Ecaterina
08. Oct 2024 · 09:40 UTC
I really like the particle effects in this game!
Karamelika22
08. Oct 2024 · 10:07 UTC
Good game, I liked how the graphics go with the music.
ZioBob
08. Oct 2024 · 12:30 UTC
very cute!
I don't know if it's wanted but the stars appear mostly in the lower left corner, just so you know
GrUt607
08. Oct 2024 · 12:52 UTC
Very good game, needs a little work and it will be great
YoannTsitionis
08. Oct 2024 · 15:17 UTC
Pretty cool art, didn't enjoy the gameplay too much but overall a well done game.
Kirass
08. Oct 2024 · 17:35 UTC
Cool idea! Super!
gudkova_ds
08. Oct 2024 · 19:16 UTC
крутая идея! интересная графика!
хотелось бы добавить что сразу не понимаешь что нужно будет делать( стрелки не сразу заметила. и ещё для ПЕРВОГО!!! уровня очень тяжелая задача(( так и не смогла пройти(( то есть для новичков будет трудное прохождение игры
juju
09. Oct 2024 · 03:06 UTC
Very cool game!
chusmimax
09. Oct 2024 · 17:24 UTC
I see you are doing it with Unity, so here is a tip, use the tools Unity gives and make the game playable from the browser. A lot of people will refuse to play your game if they have to download it (takes more effort and can be a vulnerability risk). It doesn´t take long and goes a long way for visibility.

I see most of the team is new to ludum, hope to see you all around again next time.
robri
09. Oct 2024 · 17:58 UTC
@chusmimax yeah that's what we planned to do actually, but the first version took too long to build that way (kind of stuck even, or my 10 y.o. laptop is too weak for it idk) and the second was actually finished but the build itself was broken, so we couldn't manage to fix it all in time and decided to keep it that way, maybe we'll try again at the weekend, thanks btw!
Alem26
12. Oct 2024 · 09:06 UTC
Looks very pretty and the music sounds great. The gameplay was a bit confusing, it didn't feel like the input actually corresponds to the music. I do see the potential of the game in the future tho!
shir0o23
12. Oct 2024 · 20:06 UTC
artwork was lovey, so was the music, although i did get lost a bit at times mid gameplay. great job for this year's entry!
Dimoseek
13. Oct 2024 · 19:33 UTC
Thank You ALL !
ArcadeEleven
13. Oct 2024 · 20:15 UTC
Interesting game, with a very nice poetic touch ! Well done !
BuianovaValeria
14. Oct 2024 · 03:12 UTC
Unfortunately, I can't play the game due to not having Windows, but if you plan to make another version, please tag me! You have a really cool and attractive cover.
AllenW
14. Oct 2024 · 03:15 UTC
The art and music are really good! Wasn't sure how to play the game at first. After figuring out I need to click the stars, I couldn't seem to ever get enough score because the stars were spawning in the bottom left corner and I'm guessing some of them aren't showing on my screen. ![Screenshot 2024-10-13 221054.png](///raw/398/b5/z/68cc2.png)
MrBananaz
14. Oct 2024 · 19:19 UTC
The art is soo soothing, but gameplay could get more polished
Just a dev
19. Oct 2024 · 19:39 UTC
Sadly the drawing doesn't scale with resolution so it looks to small on screens higher than 1080p (as can be seen on the screen on the comment above mine). In Unity, always make sure your Canvas Scaler is set to "Scale With Screen Size".

Other than that it's a lovely concept!

For the first one, it seems like I'm hitting all the stars but the button at the end still says "retry", which is pretty confusing at first because to me, retry imply that I lost.
For the second one, as someone who isn't used to rhythm games, I find it pretty hard. And I don't know if it's a bug or nor but the art doesn't get more colorful as I make points like in the first game.
Lyssa
24. Oct 2024 · 05:07 UTC
I think the art and the music is really nice, however the beats either don't match the music or the hitboxes for the actual notes in the "ddr" style version of your game are really off which made it really frustrating for a rhythm game. I think with more polish this concept would be really nice especially with the dark light kind of thing you guys have going for the theme.