Keyboard Slap

by velro
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.54
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.84
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★49%
A fun rhythm game using Libgdx and Freesound.org samples.

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Comments19

timtipgames
timtipgames26 Aug 2013, 03:42
This is really difficult! I was lost once there were three lines. Two things I would have loved to see: Better feedback on what "the game" thinks I am doing right and an easier mode :) Not bad for a "first "finished" game" game :)
oajfh26 Aug 2013, 22:12
Quite a nice idea, an audio-based game. However, no real ending, and I managed to get through by mashing the keys (sorry). I quite liked this game, anyway.
Velro
Velroauthor26 Aug 2013, 23:38
@oajfh It's intended to be fun and somewhat educational. I didn't want to punish anyone for not having ridiculous hand coordination. It's cool if you facerolled your way through it :)
Canobie27 Aug 2013, 18:11
I couldn't run it! It just flashed up and closed. (Mac 10.7)
doonay2127 Aug 2013, 18:17
Hell no, too difficult for me ;) I will always have some love for music games! Nice work!
Velro
Velroauthor28 Aug 2013, 01:44
@Canobie Sorry about that, I'm not sure why it's doing that. I haven't been able to try it on a Mac. Its a Java game so I orginally thought it'd work on all platforms. Now that I'm researching I'm seeing there is a conversion process. Sorry for the confusion, I'll try uploading a converted version tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback on this!
Mekuri28 Aug 2013, 20:53
Damn, this game gets difficult fast! At least for someone with very little instrument experience. I really like the idea though.
namrog84
namrog8429 Aug 2013, 07:42
Extremely difficult. Wasn't sure which key to be pushing most of the time. No visual recognition if i was doing right or wrong (aside number up top?, not near where my eyes are focused)
Almax2731 Aug 2013, 23:35
While I play drum myself and would have no problem on a drum kit, it's very very difficult on a keyboard :)
X-0r31 Aug 2013, 23:37
I wonder if it's easier on actual drums... It's totally challenging, looks much easier on the screenshot :P
ArcturusDeluxe1 Sep 2013, 00:16
Even though I make music myself (although I don't play actual instruments much) this was hard as hell. I could manage when the cymbal rides came in, but then the cymbal crashes as well, ouch. Interesting take on the theme though.
Arcana1 Sep 2013, 00:24
Holy crap, that was difficult. Like the others I wasn't really able to tell if I was doing well or not. I do finger drumming on drum pads once in a while but I couldn't get through the four instrument types!

I do like the idea and I'm glad that someone submitted a rhythm game for this theme.
Velro
Velroauthor1 Sep 2013, 07:14
The feedback I was trying to give was the color changing. When its black your on a "streak" and when it goes back to the original color you missed one.plus I couldn't change individual note colors. At the time I didn't know how to make particle effects, which would have been great for this. If I can get it to fit the theme I'm hoping to do another music game.
Empyrealhell4 Sep 2013, 09:23
The controls felt a bit awkwardly laid out, there was no way I was hitting all four of those keys in rapid succession. It was a blast, though.
psychomonster
psychomonster8 Sep 2013, 00:17
What da ... this is fucking hard... but hey I think there are music loving gamers who can play this! Looks good...
TeamQuadratic8 Sep 2013, 00:18
No idea what I was doing half the time, but I made it through by button mashing :P Cool game.
galman
galman10 Sep 2013, 19:24
I really like the idea, but it's to hard already at the beginning :P
Wertle11 Sep 2013, 04:21
Apparently my capacity to retain tracks of rhythm information stops at 3, but I'm glad the drum sounds made it good for flailing frantically :) I had a little trouble with the color feedback for the lines, I couldn't tell if color or black meant "success" or "miss" Nice work overall!
geekdrums
geekdrums16 Sep 2013, 15:40
I wanted to challenge more! (by a drummer)

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