Orchardstra

co-authored: @crhis, @joe-dunkerley
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.87
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.70
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Orchardstra is a music game, hammer down seeds from orbit and watch them grow into singing heads! you can make your own music with different combinations and timings.
Have fun!


Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xItGXIBw3CI


(Sadly, this is a music game and Unity WebGL does not support getting audio data, so this time no Browser version)

Links

* Windows: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9tN1WMFI6tqd2JTcXZyUVpvU2M
* Linux: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9tN1WMFI6tqWkxmN3J0bEtBOTg
* Mac: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9tN1WMFI6tqc3pDOFJsV3U2U28

Programer: CyberStarLight

Composer: Crhis (https://soundcloud.com/crhis87)

Artist: Joe Dunkerley (https://twitter.com/Cynical_Poet)
Genres: rhythm

Comments28

Julien Foucher1 May 2017, 13:03
That was a weird but enjoyable experience :D
Tunes91 May 2017, 19:00
Interesting and fun game. Well implemented and no obvious bugs. Like the art style and how different kind of music you can come up with.
jan5366x
jan5366x1 May 2017, 19:01
It takes a moment to get into it, but it was fun :D
rustybroomhandle1 May 2017, 19:41
Very different, and fun! The style is cool, your interpretation of the theme is great - nice work! :D
GFM
GFM1 May 2017, 19:46
I really liked the experience! This is a nice little music playground. =D

At first, I tried to aim with the cursor (i.e., the hammer), so I found aiming at seeds quite difficult. However, I later realized that you are supposed to aim with your actual mouse cursor, and not the in-game one...
Scriptorum
Scriptorum1 May 2017, 19:47
Five stars for weird! :) I couldn't figure out how to replant, or how exactly a singers position on a face of the world affected the melody, but it was fun to mess with. Love the singer designs.
🎤								CyberStarLight
🎤 CyberStarLightauthor1 May 2017, 19:52
@gfm I was aware of that issue before, but wasn't sure how to solve it, if I used the hammer only some players would try to aim with the head and others with the handle, and the hammer follows objects and changes angles too... so I added a visible cursor to the handle. if you can think of a good solution I'd be happy to hear it ^^
Neato
Neato1 May 2017, 20:08
This was a weird but enjoyable experience. But I had a hard time making the seeds land on the squares and lost a lot of time this way.
Dink_Dunk1 May 2017, 20:12
That was really enjoyable! well done! I think the one think that I didn't quite understand is the replanting mechanic, and a trajectory line for the seeds would be nice.
AJ Weeks
AJ Weeks1 May 2017, 20:28
Interesting entry! If I can say one thing it would be the world should have been a bit bigger so I could more easily see the guys on the surface. I liked the changing cursor though! Good work!
🎤								CyberStarLight
🎤 CyberStarLightauthor1 May 2017, 20:45
@aj-weeks you can use the mouse-scroll to zoom in and look closer :)

@neato in hindsight I think you're right, that mechanic was supposed to be challenging but it doesn't add much to the gameplay.
mox1 May 2017, 20:54
That was fun. The dynamic music is great. The hammer control made conceptual sense; hammer positioning gives good contextual clues. I think hiding the hammer unless your cursor is over something that can be hammered would be good. When it's floating around sometimes it feels like I should be aiming with it. If you plan to add other tools, I suppose putting it in a corner of the "hud" would work as well (that could be done as a space near the camera).
Vidinu
Vidinu1 May 2017, 22:55
I unerstand the objective but its a little difficult and confunsing try to make anything with sense :smile:
Vidinu
Vidinu1 May 2017, 22:55
I unerstand the objective but its a little difficult and confunsing try to make anything with sense :smile:
Vidinu
Vidinu1 May 2017, 23:09
One of the most creative entries that I could play but a little confusing. I waste much time trying make anything with any sense :smile:. The rhythms are great and I like the crazy artistic style. Good job.
GFM
GFM3 May 2017, 03:13
@cyberstarlight I was playing on linux, so the cursor was actually a white square... I'll later play it again, but on Windows. Then I'll think about what would be intuitive for me. :smiley:

I must agree and say that @mox suggestions does sound great! :)
AkirAssasin
AkirAssasin8 May 2017, 04:53
Very fun game! The models are very creative and detailed :) A bit hard to know exactly what seed does what though, and how do their positions affect the song.
Mathiouza
Mathiouza8 May 2017, 15:18
Nice and fun game ^^
blaster3918 May 2017, 15:55
It's a nice little toy to mess around with, but maybe I'm not creative enough to actually design a good tune. I did enjoy seeing my little musical city sprout up as I planted more seeds, and I really liked the art style.
Smiling Cat Entertainment8 May 2017, 16:43
Cool graphics and sound and a very unique concept. Like others, it took me a minute to figure out how to aim the hammer. I didn't really have any idea which head was contributing which subtrack, but it was fun to make this huge cacophonous spinning cube. Great job!
freyby
freyby8 May 2017, 17:29
A world with singing heads and giant seeds floating around the planet? Sounds like alot of fun!

Haha, this is wierd and cool at the same time! How did u come up with this one? :smiley:
fatPenguin
fatPenguin8 May 2017, 18:09
Clicked on the entry because I saw the undertale avatar - don't regret it^^ This one is really innovative! Although I randomly hammered the seeds into my planet I was appropriately pleased with the result :smile:

It would have been great if there was a caption explaining which seed produces which sound, but besides that I truly enjoyed this entry. Great job :)
Lugdumdare Team
Lugdumdare Team8 May 2017, 18:55
Nice entry! Not sure how to make a full game out of it, but the concept is interesting! Excellent work on how you managed music with different instruments being added while playing. Well done! ;)
Caffeinated Psychics
Caffeinated Psychics9 May 2017, 12:26
Fun little concept, kinda has a katamari damaci vibe to it (maybe the look), really nice voxel work and the music was pretty good as well.

Quite a concept to create singers to make music by smashing things out of orbit onto the planet i gotta say :D
drestuff
drestuff12 May 2017, 11:37
I had no idea what I was doing when playing this but it felt great! Creative stuff! :hammer:
Faithcaio15 May 2017, 17:46
Could not run it on Linux in fullscreen mode. (Mouse clicks are always in the center for some reason) Had to start it with "-screen-fullscreen 0"

But otherwise fun and creative game!
feips17 May 2017, 05:53
I was clicking random locations, I didn't know what I was doing but I like it.

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