Polytonia Music

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.66
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.20
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★79%
Ever dreamt about composing a masterpiece?

Use your great sense of timing to progress the music. Don't get a single key wrong as you keep on adding new instruments.

Instructions:

Use left and right mouse buttons to click or hold the yellow targets, as shown by the in-game guide.

Click a target when a ball is inside to play the note.

Play all notes in a streak without any single miss to unlock the next instrument.

Complete all instruments to finish the masterpiece.

Edit 2013-12-17 14:30 GMT:

Changed two glitchy notes in the drums which were very hard to pass.

Edit 2013-12-21 8:40 GMT:

Fixed a bug that caused incorrect note timing on some computers.

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Comments45

DJLad97
DJLad9715 Dec 2013, 16:21
Really, enjoyed that. Not sure if you're adding it but a scoring system would be cool. (Did you make the song your self - I like it)
Robinerd
Robinerdauthor15 Dec 2013, 23:51
Hey, glad to hear you like it, and thanks for trying it out! Scoring system could be an option, but so far I'm thinking of it more like an experience rather than a competitive element. But who knows!
And the song is my work, started to work on it at the right beginning of this ludum dare, and recorded in musagi. And I'm still working on more parts.
Thanks again!
Cosrnos16 Dec 2013, 04:05
I love that song! I couldn't get past the drum sounds though because I would click too quickly D: I like it though and I like the idea of playing all instruments and just looping them!
Masadow16 Dec 2013, 04:35
Very good ! The masterpiece is great ! I really enjoyed going through the end :)

However, it was a bit frustrating to wait until the end of the instrument when you missed the first note ^^
mcgraw
mcgraw16 Dec 2013, 04:52
That was cool! Great work!
WhoaConstrictor
WhoaConstrictor16 Dec 2013, 05:00
The most beautifully frustrating game I have played yet. Oh, the slow decent into madness upon missing an early note. I laughed. I cried. I nearly threw my mouse. A-, I get the theme tie but I don't feel it is that strong.
ashen16 Dec 2013, 06:10
Very clever and tailor made for a mobile/tablet version. When the accompanying music starts it gets really addictive and relaxing. Excellent.
mactinite
mactinite16 Dec 2013, 06:10
Oh my, this game was awesome. For me it was very hard. But I couldn't stop playing because the tune was so wonderful. Excellent job. :)
Artguy16 Dec 2013, 09:44
Damn, this is possibly the most fun rythm game I've ever played. Please do continue working on this, I'd love some more songs. Also a mobile version would be fantastic.
Tao
Tao16 Dec 2013, 09:54
Thoroughly enjoyable.
kookoon
kookoon16 Dec 2013, 09:58
Feel like to be Rob Hubbard.
You and your game are awesome!
Thein
Thein16 Dec 2013, 10:06
As a big fan of rhythm games, I really enjoyed this! The controls were challenging and fun. Good work!
feizenbara
feizenbara16 Dec 2013, 11:10
Nice game, really frustrating sometimes, but in a good way. I wish you put some real music notes on the blue/pink circles :-)
TheCze16 Dec 2013, 16:21
Excellent game! I really like the idea, artstyle and audio. Pretty tough song though!
Diamonde
Diamonde16 Dec 2013, 16:22
This is perfect. Super polished and quite challenging gameplay. The song is indeed a masterpiece :D
theholychicken16 Dec 2013, 17:12
Oh jesus I have no reflex...
Took me forever to get past the second level. Very satisfying to get it right, but right after the purple ones just murdered me.
Awesome game!
scriptorum
scriptorum16 Dec 2013, 17:26
Very nice! Really enjoyed this. Good tune. The level of challenge ramps up very well. Great job.
anvoz
anvoz16 Dec 2013, 17:50
Interesting game. Nice sounds.
Gravedrinker
Gravedrinker16 Dec 2013, 18:32
What a nice idea. I love rhythm games and this feels very nice when you pull it off. The challenge also ramps up well.
ossah16 Dec 2013, 18:42
Cool idea. Really enjoyed this. Nice and tough! Loved the seamless music integration.
LatFoued
LatFoued16 Dec 2013, 18:46
I love rythm games, and this is pretty good. Good job sir
jillytot
jillytot16 Dec 2013, 19:36
Cute. I think it would be good to add different input alternatives to the mouse, unless mouse movement had more to do with the way you interacted with the notes.
stenol
stenol16 Dec 2013, 20:18
Awsome game. I enjoy it. It's hard sometime but it's a pretty fine game. GRatz.
Nick Weihs16 Dec 2013, 20:51
Pretty cool, programmatic music works really well. I had some trouble click on things though, even in the first couple of segments
ThatGuy16 Dec 2013, 23:07
Fun choice of music and excellent difficulty progression, well done!
Arkrothe17 Dec 2013, 12:30
I liked the gameplay, and the 8 bit music is also pretty nice, but i think the difficulty is quite unforgiving, and the high iteration between two plays of the level disengaged me from the game.
JALgames17 Dec 2013, 15:05
Like that game. But graphics are a bit pixelish (not bad in general, but it doesn't look pixel-artish eigther but just rendered in low-resolution). Sound and music are nice, although i didn't make it through the second level
Robinerd
Robinerdauthor17 Dec 2013, 20:55
Thanks everyone for your good feedback and suggestions! I hope to keep on working on this and add more songs and a hotkey to restart the current level. Will also experiment with alternate input methods and improved graphics. Thanks!
Hyde Wyvern
Hyde Wyvern18 Dec 2013, 02:10
WOAAAAAA I the funniest game I've played so far!! I loved it, it's like nothing I've played before! fantastic, I got really involved on my masterpiece
JavadocMD18 Dec 2013, 05:54
Loved the quill-and-parchment aesthetic!
gmfk07
gmfk0719 Dec 2013, 01:45
Quite an interesting and fun music game! The one-life system makes it difficult, but because you start at the beginning of the short little tune, it doesn't take long to catch up :3
AtomicVikings19 Dec 2013, 08:18
Verry Cool and much fun to play it! It's raining stars for you :)
ian_snyder
ian_snyder19 Dec 2013, 12:54
Awesome entry, very original. I'm a sucker for music games, and even though I'm terrible at this I think you've done a really amazing job here. Well done!
michail
michail20 Dec 2013, 20:42
Awesome! Great concept and execution, very hard at the end but the final song was worth it. The best entry I have played so far :)
Zerkruemler21 Dec 2013, 11:33
Really great game! I like it very much. It also seems to be very solid developed and stable.

Some ideas from my side:
I would like to have keyboard control. Mouse clicking (and moving) is not my idea of a rythm game
I don't understand the difference of up and down. At least the music does not reflect different pitch levels.
The difficulty is quite hard, but I think this is ok to have a challenge.
Really good work!
Muciojad
Muciojad21 Dec 2013, 17:21
It's pretty cool and challenging, but is frustrating when bullet escapes me even though I click without interruption ;)
Overall it's very good music-based game, great job ;)
radmars
radmars22 Dec 2013, 03:29
This is awesome! I love it when people do rhythm games for LD. Pretty brutal that you have to get it perfect though :P
Jgpicatoste
Jgpicatoste22 Dec 2013, 11:08
It's really really cool (I liked the graphics and presentation a lot), but I think you could have worked some more on the concept. I can't rate this the highest of all rhythm games in this LD edition, but it's surely the one who has the most potential.
Diptoman
Diptoman24 Dec 2013, 07:37
Cool rythm game, enjoyed it. Though a restart button would have been really nice :|
The art's cool too. And of course, I liked the music very much!
GFM
GFM6 Jan 2014, 00:17
My main complaint about this is game is that it felt random to me.
The notes were indeed on the right time, but being a long or a blue/purple note didn't seen to matter, nor the stave on which the note was. Being a LD game, I can see many reasons for those... but since it's a rhythm game, with great focus on it's music, I felt annoyed by those facts...

The song was nice, though. :)
VanhaVihtahousu6 Jan 2014, 20:12
Nice Idea! Really challenging and a bit frustrating... especially after the second round! Sometimes i thought i was sure that i got my clicking right but still the notes just went by...

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