This game is... well, I don't know. I guess you'd call it an "audio puzzler".
The idea is that each stage is a 10-second song that has been sliced up and rearranged. It's your job to put the song back together. By the third and final stage each instrument has it's own sequence, so you have to arrange each instrument separately.
Click on the arrows to swap song slices.
Once the song is in the proper order you MUST play it start to finish before you will receive credit for it.
I highly recommend playing without hints (with hints you can win fairly easily without even hearing any of the music), but for anyone that thinks it's still too hard, the hints should help. With hints on it will display which slices are in the correct place once you play through to the end of the full 10-second song.
I actually made this almost entirely under Compo restrictions... I just couldn't find the time to work on it until Sunday night, so it ended up having to be a Jam entry. It was built from scratch in under 48 hours (actually more like 12 hours total), entirely by me using only freely available tools (with the exception of my drum samples).
Great idea, and interesting, but there are often tiny "hiccups" between sound segments on playback that can make them sound wrong even when they're right.
Cool idea! I made it through some of the songs just by guesswork and using the hints but that's the fault of my ears, I think. I could have done with the instruments coming in at different points to really make it obvious for me. Anyway, a very nice, original little game.
Quite hard for me, but I really love your idea and this is the first title about audio title in LD I played. At first, I thought I will be edit those pieces in real time as I don't really want to wait for the whole song to finish playing.
Very original love the music, thanks for including the hints option. trying again without using hints and its much more difficult. The clipping between sections even when in the right order is a bit of a distraction if you could fix it to have smoother transitions that would be great. Other than that more songs please! :D
Great game! It's so impressive that you made all that music for it D: And all in under 72 hours! Really impressive! Cool mechanics too! Super glad you had the give hint button to help the people that are bad with music like me xD
I winned! :-D Hints helped tremendously. I like gritfish's suggestion to maybe have the characters give some sort of visual feedback? But awesome in the time constraints!
This game is SOOO amazing. Love the graphics, love the music, love the general idea. Amazing job!! I featured it in my video compilation series of LD27 games, if you would like to check it out :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyApng3Bq-c
Really cool idea, I think that there are a lot of possibilities for this kind of game. Great job having a diversity of styles represented by just three instruments across three songs, each level had something new to offer. Great job.
Hey this is the same game I have created. At least the idea is exactly the same, but the implementation is slightly different. I found your enty by your blog post 'Thoughts on music in the compo division' I struggled however already at the second level and was not able to get further without hints. Seems like my musical understanding is not good enough. I like games like yours which try to help the player with hints instead of letting them fail. This is in my opinion a very good design decision. The thrid level is already really hard. It would be nice to play the instruments seperately. So when you want to play a very similar game, try mine.
I love the concept.
I love the music.
This game is really unique.
One of my favorites.