Puzzle action musical game in which you discover an octopus life with a succession of 10 seconds musical partition composed and recorded by yourself. Live or die, it's simply a matter of time. But what's the value of your brothers life ?
* Gameplay explanation : Octopus isn't supposed to be slow, you must quickly tap on ctrl or alt to "run."
PS :
* There are still a few bugs that will be fixed over time.
* The game has been tested with Firefox, it's better with it but you can also try with chrome or safari for example but with sometimes loss of framerate.
* We are currently working on a controller version.
* We're French... so help us to correct English sentences.
Update :
-A new version with a new loading system is currently on testing, sometimes you have to refresh the page 2-3 times.
unresponsive octopus makes it hard to compose anything and have fun with music, but still its possible to beat the level. graphics and audio are awesome though.
Great work, beautiful for both sound and graphics. The gameplay is strange, winning/losing conditions are not very clear, but I had a good time playing it. Congrats!
@oxysof : Sometimes the tutorial doesn't appear. To pass levels you have to record a melody (push shift) and play it (press space) when octopus is above the white squares. But your life time is counted, so you will found solution to steal 10 secondes life's to other octopuses.
Furthermore check if your browser zoom is normal (ctrl 0) else the game will be slow.
Great graphics ! Hard to get the concept but i liked it ! Impossible to use the ctrl key on mac because of some shortcuts for the system, but I liked even if it tooked me some time :)
Looks fantastic. Love the idea although i didn't really understand what to do for a long while, and the key combinations to record are hard to remember and use. Also i didn't get any sound on chrome.
Wonderful graphics and audio. I felt a little confused about what I was actually trying to achieve. Still a very interesting idea and that is what LD is all about. Good Work!
Great concept, I have a hard time making the game work (no sound for the first try). Really like it overall, a really nice game which looks and sounds great !
Bravo, les graphismes sont vraiment beaux et soignés! Le concept est vraiment original, j'ai beaucoup apprécié ce jeu. Je trouve juste que les contrôle du Xyloctopus sont assez complexe de part la faible vitesse et l'inertie. Encore bravo à vous tous!
Great graphics and Audio, but the octopus moves far too slowly to hit more than one key in the 10 second period.. (Firefox for Ubuntu canoncial - 1.0 v 23.0) It might be my computer is just too slow..
@osthekake : maybe the both :-) Many player give the same feedback, so we try to fix it (for exemple, currently on my PC it's slow on chrome but fast on firefox).
I couldn't play. :( In my verions of firefox (latest: 23.0.1), chrome & opera the character moved extremely slowly at normal zoom (or at least what I presume to be slow), in IE moved fine but there was no sound. I will check back again, as I love the concept.
Like last LD, the art is simply phenomenal. So gooooood, well done. :D
Awesome graphics & audio. good game mecanism idea which still need some polishes to be really playable. I found the controls really hard to play, too much inertia / not enough speed. Also, I barely was able to read the help message and it's the most important part.
Interesting and complex for sure. I think the complexity of controls hurt the execution a bit; however, the audio, design and visuals are all superb. I could not figure out how to get past the third level, can you please explain what I need to do?
@ Thank's everyone, we currently work on an optimised version (with gamepad for chrome, and with a low framerate system), so please continue your feedback (about the slowing or the lack of sound for exemple). Thank you very much.
@Vaughn : From level 3 you must eat plankton (small tadpoles) and activate new keys by pressing enter. So you will have enough key to record a 5-song melody and more (see later).
Thanks for the reply. I was pretty sure I tried that last time I played. I tried again today just to make sure, and now I can't even get past the first stage for some reason? For some reason, it would never count my notes towards the goal. I restarted the game, and I was able to get past it once again, and this time, I was finally able to get past level 3. So there must be some issue where it doesn't recognize notes. I'll update you and rate once I am able to complete :)
I really love the art and the audio, really gets me in the mood! Once the objective is clear, the game is actually quite simple. But the difficulty of getting all the needed notes got really hard too quick. I got stuck at level 3.
Would be nice to be able to cancel the recording and start over.
Really innovative idea, unfortunately I couldn't quite finish it - there was never enough plankton that spawned on Goal 8 level. Great audio, art and design. I've already shared my thoughts on the complexity and all that. Overall, a really nice piece!
This is an amazing idea, but the control scheme needs work. It's really hard to be mashing one button while needing to push another button with the same hand at sporadic intervals.
Concept and art are really great, the idea of this submarine music making game is good. The interaction with plancton create some more action. But the octopus moves are too slow, it's kind of breaking the gameplay. With some extra fluidity it could be a fun game.
This game is so chilling and beautiful, I love how it plays back the notes again between stages. I got stuck for a bit on the first stage with plankton, didn't realize they let you create more keys for a while. So I got to stage 10 with not a lot of time. Was I close to the end? I will probably play soon again.
I found going the whole way back to the start a bit punishing and the constant timer a bit oppressive generally, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
The movement wasn't as fast as when I played on IE originally (obviously it was a bit broken on that browser then) but much much faster than when I played initially on other browsers. Feels great now, suits the game's pace well. Balletic.
I simply love this game, possibly my favourite this jam. <3 Lovely art, concept, programming, concept & sound. Well done.
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graphics and audio are awesome though.
Furthermore check if your browser zoom is normal (ctrl 0) else the game will be slow.
Hard to get the concept but i liked it !
Impossible to use the ctrl key on mac because of some shortcuts for the system, but I liked even if it tooked me some time :)
Encore bravo à vous tous!
(Firefox for Ubuntu canoncial - 1.0 v 23.0)
It might be my computer is just too slow..
Many player give the same feedback, so we try to fix it (for exemple, currently on my PC it's slow on chrome but fast on firefox).
Lovely, my french friends
Like last LD, the art is simply phenomenal. So gooooood, well done. :D
good game mecanism idea which still need some polishes to be really playable. I found the controls really hard to play, too much inertia / not enough speed. Also, I barely was able to read the help message and it's the most important part.
@Vaughn : From level 3 you must eat plankton (small tadpoles) and activate new keys by pressing enter. So you will have enough key to record a 5-song melody and more (see later).
Would be nice to be able to cancel the recording and start over.
Overall, really good game!
But the octopus moves are too slow, it's kind of breaking the gameplay. With some extra fluidity it could be a fun game.
This game is so chilling and beautiful, I love how it plays back the notes again between stages. I got stuck for a bit on the first stage with plankton, didn't realize they let you create more keys for a while. So I got to stage 10 with not a lot of time. Was I close to the end? I will probably play soon again.
I found going the whole way back to the start a bit punishing and the constant timer a bit oppressive generally, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
The movement wasn't as fast as when I played on IE originally (obviously it was a bit broken on that browser then) but much much faster than when I played initially on other browsers. Feels great now, suits the game's pace well. Balletic.
I simply love this game, possibly my favourite this jam. <3 Lovely art, concept, programming, concept & sound. Well done.
Has a nice flow.