Tessitron

by radmars
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.97
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.05
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Tessitron!

A minimal musical rhythm game.

Hit X, C, V, B, N to break the shapes of corresponding color once they're inside your ship's attack ring.

(Note - since this is a performance and timing-critical game, Chrome is recommended. Also, if you see a black screen at the start, the page is probably just still loading.)

Credits:
SPACEMARS - code, art
Adhesion - code, music
emarcotte - code
tokken - 3D, art
brendo - level & game design

Comments43

PixelOaks
PixelOaks30 Apr 2013, 04:50
Really nice and atmospheric. I could play this for a long time.
TravisChen
TravisChen30 Apr 2013, 05:12
Awesome, great work! Love the camera shifts.
Tokken18
Tokken1830 Apr 2013, 12:31
Stellar contribution from the Radmars team as usual! The music really is the star of this game, but the well timed sound shapes only help to reinforce the music, creating a very complete experience. Gameplay is smooth and easy to learn but hard to master. The difficulty is all skill based not arbitrary which is the right way to do difficulty in my opinion.
radmars
radmarsauthor30 Apr 2013, 12:31
@Super Hamster: the page was probably still loading. Lots of assets!
FunByJohn
FunByJohn30 Apr 2013, 13:19
Wow this game is cool. The low poly graphics, and the feel of just flying around while doing it, keeps it refreshing with new camera angles, and different polygonal shapes. Awesome work. :)
dick_claus30 Apr 2013, 19:56
You are awesome guys as usual.
psychomonster
psychomonster1 May 2013, 15:59
Like GuitarHero with spaceships. like the soundscape and that minimalistic controlls...
kidder2 May 2013, 02:50
Cool stuff. I liked the boss mechanic, that's something I haven't seen in music games. The gameplay didn't quite seem to fit super well with the music though.
whilefun2 May 2013, 02:54
You had me at "RADMARS". Haha! :) I scored 43810. Super cool idea, and I loved the audio. Good job!
Switchbreak
Switchbreak2 May 2013, 02:54
Really cool! I love the graphics and the sense of motion. And you used shades of color I can pick out despite being colorblind. I'm not sure why the beat gave out after a bit in the music.
Julian Ceipek2 May 2013, 03:07
Awesome entry with great music and a really nice skill-based feedback system that kept me trying multiple times despite my ineptness at rhythm games.
EdoMiyamoto
EdoMiyamoto2 May 2013, 11:33
Wow impressive, nice learning curve!
zazery
zazery3 May 2013, 00:30
I'm terrible at rhythm games but I enjoyed this one. The camera movements and visuals created a nice mood.
captainkraft
captainkraft3 May 2013, 00:56
Wow! That game is amazing. Very fun, great sounds and music, simple. Awesome all around
Prelucid
Prelucid3 May 2013, 01:35
Cool idea. I panicked like crazy when those 5 colors came out on a skewer and I realized I only had 4 fingers!
BahamutZaero3 May 2013, 01:36
Please tell me you will be releasing this for iPad as a real product! I want to play this on the go!!
davidpeter3 May 2013, 01:37
120795. Very well done game, nice work guys!
Rafael Sales3 May 2013, 19:25
Awesome game. Very well done and polished. Great work. Congratz!
SmilingCat6 May 2013, 03:02
Pretty cool rhythm game. I liked the pieces that were tied together and thus were trickier to destroy.

Good job!
docix7 May 2013, 01:34
This is amazing! Definitely one of the most fun games this time around. Awesome work!
DkCub237 May 2013, 01:54
Whoa, this is very good. I'd say the game is better than the actual concept. Which I think is a good thing. I kind of means you created the game very well.
aeveis
aeveis7 May 2013, 02:00
Very very cool. Nice camera control with the music and effects.
bvanschooten7 May 2013, 17:34
Great game! On FF I only got black on dark grey, so I played it in Chrome. A pity I have to restart at the beginning every time.
MinionStudios
MinionStudios7 May 2013, 18:50
Love the simplicity and fantastic work on the art and music! Fun and very difficult game!
kill0u
kill0u9 May 2013, 11:45
Nice concept. Maybe not hard enough, but fun anyway :)
Jellycakes11 May 2013, 02:15
Was pretty nice, I'm not that great a timing games but I really enjoyed the simplicity and visual style, good job.
Alphonsus11 May 2013, 02:55
Really awesome I had fun playing with this. Love the graphics and the music. Great work!
ahm99
ahm9911 May 2013, 03:49
Score: 29925. Awesome game. I liked the graphics. Interesting game. Music was good. Good job :)
Gungnir
Gungnir11 May 2013, 04:11
Well done, music is really great.
EggDestroyer
EggDestroyer11 May 2013, 15:38
105540. I had trouble to remember which color was associated with which letter, as there's no "column" like in traditional rythm games, so I mashed buttons sometimes. But you created an excellent atmosphere with great screenplay and good dynamic sound effects. I felt a little bt like in Rez for some reason. I enjoyed my play very much and I'll probably replay it. :)
Tom 7
Tom 712 May 2013, 18:02
Very good! I'm impressed with the smoothness of the game given that it's in the browser. Love the music, though on my first playthrough it stopped abruptly after a minute or so. The best part was how it'd repeat motifs after I succeeded at them. I didn't beat the boss yet, though I did survive him.
Fervir
Fervir12 May 2013, 20:10
I love the entire concept of this game.
The sounds are what make the game come alive.
This is easily one of my favorite entries.
Saturnyn
Saturnyn14 May 2013, 17:29
Great work ! A really well polished game.
ovenchips
ovenchips14 May 2013, 17:43
Why did God make me colorblind?!?!
JustinMullin14 May 2013, 21:19
This is so very very cool. It ended up feeling more Typing of the Dead than Guitar Hero to me, since there's no requirement of precise timing like in a rhythm game. Super fun, and a nice length and difficulty. Nicely done!
Sylvain.p
Sylvain.p14 May 2013, 21:25
Nice aesthetic but I don't like the mechanism (it's a kind of quizz...)
sP0CkEr215 May 2013, 02:57
really great game -- like the guitar hero with a boss at the end -- awesome
Xanjos15 May 2013, 20:40
Apart from the long loading time, this is a really fun game with a learning curve that's just about perfect.
dremelofdeath
dremelofdeath17 May 2013, 09:49
Very ambient! Super great, I would play this over and over again! This was fun, good job!
DDRKirby(ISQ)20 May 2013, 23:25
Nice. Wish you guys could have done a tighter audio sync, but.....browser audio.....yeah. Good stuff though. Really enjoyed your postmortem as well *thumbsup*

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