Ludum Dare #41compo

OPTIC

by atmospherium

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.18

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.55

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.70

To keep my streak alive, here's another Ludum Dare entry that has no "Ludum". I've been wanting to create a real-time audio visualizer for a while now and just used this LD as an excuse to finally do it. I combined the incompatible genres of "not a game" and "also not interactive." Have fun listening to four brand new tracks while circles grow and shrink in size. Fun for the whole family!

All music and code created during LD41.

Tags: #audio, #music, #visualization

Genres: rhythm

Comments19

JCMonkey23 Apr 2018, 04:50

like the music and graphics. :D

SMILEY_4_23 Apr 2018, 15:51

Interesting gameplay mechanics :D Great graphics and music.

OccultOne24 Apr 2018, 05:38

Amazing job as usual! The audio is addicting, and I kept it on loop long after I should have walked away. A+ Entry, and I'll be sorely disappointed if this doesn't smash the Audio category apart on it's way past everyone else. Great job with the waveform display, this would be a neat project to hack onto a monitor that hangs on your wall and listens to your currently playing music.

Wassim25 Apr 2018, 15:59

Love the graphics & music!
Good job!

Velocity725 Apr 2018, 17:23

I love your music man. So cool

ManBeardGames25 Apr 2018, 17:23

This was a super interesting idea for the two genres to combine lol. Visuals are really well done and the audio is fantastic.

foolmoron26 Apr 2018, 04:23

Insanely cool viz and awesome tracks. Surprising variety in genre and you nailed them all. The viz seemed to be dominated by bass though. It had really cool effects when the melody was there alone, but it didn't show any difference when there was a melody with bass.

Hi Im Greg27 Apr 2018, 16:44

Gorgeous, I love it. Not a game, but stunning visuals and audio.

kaytrill27 Apr 2018, 16:59

Not a game, but one of the best submissions on here. Love it.

Honest Dan27 Apr 2018, 19:49

Hard to rate properly when it hasn't really tried to fit in with the jam's theme. but good visualiser, and the fact you did the music too is really impressive. :)

alexrose27 Apr 2018, 23:54

>interesting gameplay mechanics

lol

IT IS WHAT IT IS ATMOS, I'M GOING TO RATE YOU ON AUDIO, GRAPHICS AND MOOD ONLY.

Brent28 Apr 2018, 02:32

The visualization is fantastic. I beat the game using the immense interactivity. I am the best.

Tay Elenberg28 Apr 2018, 20:33

Not a game,not a ld theme, but graphics and music so cool!

jshaffer9424730 Apr 2018, 04:02

I wish I could follow you on LD! This was a nice change...nothing to install and I had fun. Seems like you could make a game with this if you chose to.

Erkberg30 Apr 2018, 20:34

Very nice music and visualization, quite hypnotizing actually. Obviously not much of a game, but really good in its own right. I sat in front of it for quite some time :)
One minor thing: When there was more going on it was hard to see the melody lines.
PS: May I ask which plugins you used for the music?

Geckoo13371 May 2018, 15:24

Great entry. But not a game - as you said. However you did a sympathic entry. Well done ++

atmospheriumauthor1 May 2018, 19:03

@Erkberg Thanks for the feedback! Regarding the music, I use Reason for my music production and mostly use stock synths and plugins. Of the non-stock plugins, I made heavy use of TDR Nova for dynamic EQ, Expanse by Blamsoft for a few of the synths, and an assortment of Joey Sturgis Tones plugins on the mix (JWBusGlue and JSTClip a few places, Toneforge JR for guitars).