Minimal gameplay = hit a block with a circle Minimal sound = sine waves for sound effects Minimal colors / design = greyscale and green + circles and squares Minimal score = lower score is the goal!
Tech = HTML5 Web Audio API + Cocos2D-HTML5 Sound = Dynamically generated sine waves via HTML5 Web Audio API
Very musical. It would have been nice with some added animations when you hit the note blocks. Some better colour would have been good too. Maybe some percussion blocks (am I asking for too much), and a bit of polish with timing and controls. otherwise I thought it was fun and innovative.
Fun and simple, good graphics yet I've experienced a few troubles with palette.
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papa_troll29 Apr 2013, 09:15
Nice, simple. Think with more time for careful level design, this could be something special. Something a little less minimal (OK I know that is the theme!) on the music side too might be nice. But great game
Thanks for the feedback! The colors looked fine on the monitor I designed on, but I played on another machine this morning and noticed what you all are talking about with the palette. I plan on making this a full game, so I'll definitely be redoing colors first thing!
Cool game. The circle-circle collisions are kinda hard to predict though. Combos could make a great addition (additional points if you can hit elements in a "musical" order, or hit the same color multiple times in a row).
Very funny and pleasant to play! I like your approach to the theme. Only the levels where you have to bounce against circles are a bit frustrating - they are really hard to predict!
So this is the other Sine :) It kind reminds of Mini-Golf and pool. It's pleasant to play, has a nice colour palette and the music part adds a surprising touch!
I value the approach to making sounds with every bounce, but maybe you could have included more instruments? It kinda sounds monotonous to me :/ Either way, nice job!
@AlbertoSM Including only sine waves was a nod to the Minimalism theme. I totally agree more sounds would be better and plan to build out the game with a full suite of sounds. Thanks for the feedback!
This is a neat concept and I liked hearing the ball move while I played, but I felt like there were really two different games with conflicting goals, since making music was an opposite goal from getting a good score. Perhaps it would be better if the fastest path to the goal made some sort of intentional melody or something like that? (or as bummzack suggests, a sort of "combo" thing).
Thinking about making the music more interesting: perhaps you could make the sines loop at an interval depending on the speed at which they're hit? Anyway I liked your game, the gameplay was not that interesting of course but the music made up for it.
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Not sure if that's good or not but I hope so.
Good game :)