Linked by a Rhythm

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★49%
NOTE: Should be a 48H Compo entry but i couldn't find a way to host my project in time

"Two worlds overlapse each other. Before, nobody could see nor be affected by the other one but things are changing since some few peoples understood that the two world are beating at the same pace. And if you find and follow that rhythm, you can be part of them at the same time."

Features:
- Switch between two worlds to avoid damage
- Enemies shots follow a master beat and generate music when firing

Defaults inputs:
- Move: Up, Down, Right, Left
- Change to world 1: left mouse click
- Change to world 2: right mouse click
- Use(Disable enemy): right ctrl

Rules:
- You can't be hurt by bullets from the other world
- You have to deactivate robots to progress
- One hit and you die

To do:
- Player should be able to change world only in rhythm
- Add door system to prevent player to progress if he didn't deactivate enemies from a zone
- Add more enemy fires (like circle expanding around them to force player to jump or crouch)
- Add more enemies, boss at the end of a level
- Improve visual things like animations, textures, lights, etc... Smooth the switch between world (smooth color and BGM transition for example)

Softwares:
- Unity
- Ableton Live
- Blender

screenshot

Comments12

43iscoding
43iscoding25 Aug 2014, 17:05
I like when games is strongly connected with music. Great concept, I hope you develop it in something more :)
Tomker25 Aug 2014, 17:06
Nice work :) Music is quite annoying sometimes but anyway it was a pleasure to play it
Naytron25 Aug 2014, 17:17
Interesting mix of ikaruga and beat matching. The clean two-tone graphics really help communicate the mechanic to the player.

I found it quite difficult to manage the button presses whilst navigating the narrow corridors.

Perhaps disabling the turrets should be automatic when the player touches them? And maybe you could just use one mouse button to toggle between the two states.

Cool idea!
kyyrma25 Aug 2014, 18:52
Love games where music is a part of the gameplay. Very interesting and trippy experience, although a bit simplistic.
DJWizardCop
DJWizardCop25 Aug 2014, 19:50
Nice concept and fun to listen to!
adrenalinehigh_Jam27 Aug 2014, 18:08
Really neat game idea, I feel like if it got much harder I would have had to figure out how to react to the shoot-sounds alone and change my colors. As it was, I did it visually.

This is obviously just a concept demo since it only has 5 rooms, but it's creative and impressive. Good work.
*Just read your note at the top, that explains why it felt like one person built this from scratch. Even more impressive!
H1S231 Aug 2014, 18:29
cool game. it`s similar to ours in terms of how you got to respond to the music. exept ours is in 2D. I would have found a little information in form of a HUD helpful. Still, nice work!
Tosic3 Sep 2014, 09:22
I like the enemies and graphics, but you could add a health bar or a 3d text showing the health of the player!
Tosic3 Sep 2014, 09:22
BTW, I use Blender and Unity as well :D
NicePenguins
NicePenguins14 Sep 2014, 19:22
Great concept, i think you really can do something cool about this ! The gameplay is frustrating and you can end up the level juste by running !
Teesquared
Teesquared15 Sep 2014, 09:03
Nice audio and mood. Controls didn't work well for me. Graphics are simple but they work. Interesting way to use dynamic sound.

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