Gameplay is dead simple: shock the heart to keep it alive. The longer you keep the pace, the more hearts you'll have to manage! That's when things begin to fail, just aim for a highscore.
TBH this is not really what I had in mind initially... While the gameplay is somewhat similar to what I envisioned, it's very raw and I messed the resolution. Anyway, making this was fun, I hope you enjoy this 20 seconds game ;)
Note: inputs seems laggy in the web version, native version should be better (only tested on linux).
because of the different bpm you have to manage bewteen the two.
It took me several tries to understand that there wasn't any explicit indicator of the rythm I had to take, and that I needed to rely on the textual value with the bpm target^^ Maybe try to implement a sign of the rythm if you plan to do a post jam version of the game? It would make the "multi hearts" handling bearable x)
Else, I like the concept, and it fits the theme really well, so even if there are some flaws, great job to being able to produce this in 48h!
* I like the sound effects, the way the flatline fades out after game over is nice. * I couldn't get very far, since I have no idea what a given bpm sounds like; I racked up heart attacks very fast :laughing: * It would be nice if I could resize the window. Try going to project settings -> stretch settings -> mode -> 2D or Viewport and stretch aspect -> keep. * The red Xs at the top to indicate heart attacks are very nice, and overall the UI is very clear. * Nice work!
The Mac version doesn't open for me (on Catalina, anyways) - but the web version seemed to work fine, and I didn't notice any lag in the inputs. I enjoyed it whenever I could get started - but getting started was always rough, since there didn't seem to be a lot of feedback available before you started having attacks. I think this game would benefit a lot from having more feedback about the right pace to keep, and maybe being a bit more forgiving - it would be particularly great if the heartbeat sound effect could play at the appropriate speed - it was jarring to have "ba-bump (silence) ba-bump (silence)" at slower BPMs and made it harder to keep pace. I only managed to get the cloud-based stage once, but I thought the text there was pretty funny - well worth the trouble. (...though I was not a very good cloud based pacemaker. :( )
Interesting game, I liked it and I actually played it for a while, since I really wanted to be successful but I have to say that I failed :) I never made it past two hearts. I did find it hard to keep two hearts at different rates. :) fun game!
Okay, took me a while to figure out how to play. I thought the animation of the heart would tell me when to press space. I think this is also the smallest game I've ever played :)
they never should have hired me for this pacemaker job :sob:
neat little concept - definitely missing either an audio or visual cue for the rhythm. I think you could have set it up so the heart animation goes along to the needed BPM!
Who knew trying to keep two hearts going would be hard! It took a bit for me to get into the rhythm (hah!) but I like the concept. The flatline as a game over is a nice touch :)
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when you reach several hearts at the same time xD
because of the different bpm you have to manage bewteen the two.
It took me several tries to understand that there wasn't any explicit indicator of the rythm I had to take, and that I needed to rely on the textual value with the bpm target^^ Maybe try to implement a sign of the rythm if you plan to do a post jam version of the game? It would make the "multi hearts" handling bearable x)
Else, I like the concept, and it fits the theme really well, so even if there are some flaws, great job to being able to produce this in 48h!
* I couldn't get very far, since I have no idea what a given bpm sounds like; I racked up heart attacks very fast :laughing:
* It would be nice if I could resize the window. Try going to project settings -> stretch settings -> mode -> 2D or Viewport and stretch aspect -> keep.
* The red Xs at the top to indicate heart attacks are very nice, and overall the UI is very clear.
* Nice work!
neat little concept - definitely missing either an audio or visual cue for the rhythm. I think you could have set it up so the heart animation goes along to the needed BPM!
Thanks for submitting!!