BeatBox

by sausagroll

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.45

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.15

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.24

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.22

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.73

Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.88

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★41%

Use the arrow keys to play
Space/Enter to navigate menus

You have to stop the shapes that are shifting towards you. And that is all the relevance the game has to the theme. Also the title is BeatBox because you have to beat boxes.

To install on windows extract the files from the .zip file and run BeatBox.exe to play.

To play on linux, clone the git repository and run main.py. YOU MUST have at least python 3.4 and pygame to run it.

python downloads: https://www.python.org/downloads/
pygame downloads: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads

The game was made by two 14/15 year olds from the UK, me doing the code/sound effects and the other one doing design.

Language: python
Engine: pygame
Graphics: GIMP
Sound: Bfxr

Comments11

zoeinfp19 Apr 2016, 18:04

Nice!! Well done! I like it!

KappaIX22 Apr 2016, 20:21

Good clean style. And the shapes do indeed shift!

Well done!

Alphish22 Apr 2016, 21:00

Well, it's not particularly original game, but seems to work well enough. I don't really feel particular urge to keep playing, though, and at some points the shapes become just too fast (especially when there are combos of two). Maybe add multiple lives (or a gradually replenishing health bar...?) so that a single skip doesn't end the game altogether?

Sean22 Apr 2016, 21:09

It's a nice start, but there really wasn't much to it. Having said that, it's probably better than what I would've been able to put together at your age!

Louspirit22 Apr 2016, 21:35

Nice little game. Like the style and rytmics.

djfariel23 Apr 2016, 15:01

While I like the concept, this style of game is best set to music. Still, a nice entry nonetheless.

h2n024 Apr 2016, 08:29

I was unable to rate the game as I couldn't get it to run under either Python 2 or Python 3, I have installed the latest Pygame and still it doesn't work. I tried under a Linux environment as I don't have access to a windows one at the time of writing.

Strike24 Apr 2016, 10:28

Surely a very good base for a music rhythm game.

ekkiiiii24 Apr 2016, 11:17

It has potential. :) Sometimes the way the boxes appear in the beginning of a game feels unfair (too many on one lane & too many in general).

mkghoster26 Apr 2016, 19:41

Nice minimalist entry from such young developers!

Tselmek7 May 2016, 08:48

Simple mechanic but works well. The speed of the shapes quickly became out of control after a couple of combos. Would have been marvelous if the "kill a shape" actions made out some actual beatbox ;) 850 is the highest I could reach.

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