Thanks for the awesome feedback so far everyone! Mac builds are also now available.
We're getting ready to start diving into the LD46 submissions for sure! Today has been a today to catch up on things that have been neglected during the rush of development. I intend to start playing entries this evening :)
One of my favorites from the Jam. The UI and transitions are super clean. The gameplay concept is really cool. I'm a decent typist and it was surprisingly challenging to track the letters I was supposed to type; it would take some practice. The sound effects are good. I loved the wrinkles in the gameplay -- catching the swag and the fan cams were fun and mixed things up a bit. The "tutorial" was just right. Great stuff.
Fantastic game, very unique and lots of fun. My only criticism would be to include a letter for each seat as it becomes quite hard to map the screen to my keyboard mentally. I love the extra gameplay though with the "gimme a" and the wave cam!
I love the concept behind this. Its a mind test. The transitions were amazing too, the audio panning fits perfectly (it won't go unnoticed). Congratulations. Hope to see more of you in future jams.
I gotta say, the concept of this game is truly unique! Way to go on presenting something new to the table. (at least, as far as my limited game playing experience has ever gone) The animations and screen transitions are highest quality. The sound and stereo effects were all very well done. I wasn't able to play the game, but I can imagine someone who is up to the challenge having a lot of fun with this. I could imagine you getting a good score in this game jam. I wish you the best of luck.
The polish on this is absolutely insane. Everything was perfect - the animation, font choice, color choice, scene transitions - everything. Even options for more obscure non-standard layouts! There might be some way to access the user's current keyboard layout through code though, but I'm not sure. I'm blown away with how original the game idea is. The only suggestion I have is that you should somehow label the members of the crowd with their corresponding letters of the keyboard, it gets extremely confusing with more than two people active. When seeing the colors, my first thought was - "RGB keyboard!" It would probably be difficult to pull off, but getting the colors to sync with an RGB backlit keyboard would be awesome. Great job. Please do something with this past Ludum Dare, the game deserves it! Regards, -Elnu
The polish on this is absolutely insane. Everything was perfect - the animation, font choice, color choice, scene transitions - everything. Even options for more obscure non-standard layouts! There might be some way to access the user's current keyboard layout through code though, but I'm not sure. I'm blown away with how original the game idea is. The only suggestion I have is that you should somehow label the members of the crowd with their corresponding letters of the keyboard, it gets extremely confusing with more than two people active. When seeing the colors, my first thought was - "RGB keyboard!" It would probably be difficult to pull off, but getting the colors to sync with an RGB backlit keyboard would be awesome. Great job. Please do something with this past Ludum Dare, the game deserves it! Regards, -Elnu
Absolute Spectacular game! Whoever came up with this is a Genius! I do think having the people labelled with letters would make it easier to know who is who. Loved every second of it. No game I've played is anywhere similar to this.
To be honest, I found this game pretty hard to play. I know which key is where, but it was hard to know what to press based exclusively off the person's position in the crowd. I wish that the people were labelled, so that I didn't need to constantly look down at my keyboard to determine whether I needed to press g or h. It all changed so quickly, I couldn't keep up. The graphics were great tho!
So original, at first when I saw the keyboard select screen I was like "Wut" When start playing was really satisfying, thanks to this game now i know that im pretty good in finding the position of my keys haha. Also this game gave me a Wii game vibe, good work!
this is highly polished and a very well done game. I coudn't enjoy it as I should. I couldn't locate the buttons easily. I wish they wore a shirt with letters on it so I can tell what to press.
and when I do locate the button. the wave is switched to other buttons :(
Thanks for the feedback everyone! Glad to hear so many people are enjoying the game.
Difficulty is absolutely the biggest point of criticism we get, and it's fair, our game is damn hard. We're continuing development of this game, and difficulty will be getting re-addressed in a major way. If anyone is interested in following along with future development, keep an eye on @nirufekriarnold on Twitter :D
Here I was thinking I was the only one who used the interpretation 'keep the wave alive'. In all seriousness though, great job! This game is crazy polished - you could put this up on steam as is and it'd be fine, IMO. All the little ways you add variation to game play, the visual and audio polish, it all works together so well. My _one_ suggestion would be, like other people have said, an option to label the crowd members with jerseys or something to show which letter they correspond to. Other than that though, genuinely blown away, great work!!
Spectacular game! It feels and looks polished. The menu was a luxury as was the gameplay! It was enjoyable and the timing was relatively easy, just predicting when to go got me for while (I only got a few perfects). But that makes the game unique. The graphics were nice and the audio worked perfectly in sync with the wave itself. Speaking of the wave, it was incredibly innovative and fitted the theme superbly! You already know about the difficulty problems, perhaps adding options/difficulties for telling you what letters each spectator is, or using just one line of a keyboard. I liked the wave cam, the spam every key as a wave, and the give me an "insert letter here" was a great way to shake up the gameplay (and it was intuitive, the instruction was literally in the gameplay)! Overall, really well done and highly rated!
As others have said, this is beautifully polished. You certainly score high for innovation here, it's a lovely idea and plays well... but wow, the difficulty! I think labelling the crowd with their corresponding letters would make a real difference to the gameplay, as it feels a little panicked when the active crowd members change and you have to try and work out which keys you need before the wave begins... you probably played this to death during development and have a feel for which is which, but I found that pretty hard going. You could have the labels removed either as a difficulty option, or possibly during one of the in-game wave changes.
By the way, I love the in-game wave changes! Breaking up the loop with the wave cam and the car park call is a really nice touch - and the point where the entire crowd becomes active and you just slide across the whole keyboard like a piano feels somehow celebratory. Very nice entry.
Amazing idea and great execution. The only suggestion I would give would be to have the keys on the adepts or at least some help because I felt I lost more time looking for the right keys than actually trying to do the wave. The game would be great with the wave alone but the added "give me a (letter)" and the waver cam are great additions that really bring some freshness to the game play. I found the game to be a little too heavy in computer usage. Great Job! Definitely, one of the best entries IMO
Wow, so simple and yet so complicated. I found myself wishing some of the audience people would wear reference t-shirts with letters on them, so it would be easier for me to establish who is who on the fly. Not even all of them, just some reference points would be nice.
The game felt very polished. I liked all the little touches, like somebody throwing tomatoes (?), snowballs (?) at the crowd :laughing: Graphics is simple but informative and pleasant to look at. The color choices are great.
And the concept is unique. At least the first such in my experience. Really well done!
This game was dope apart from me getting -200 points. RIP me. otherwise fantastic, great concept. I would've liked if the people had letters on them but otherwise cool.
I liked this game and the simple mechanic of press the keys on keyboard ^_^.
This game caught my attention from the beginning with a simple and aweasome transition of the screens. For me try to understand how I'll press the key give me more fun then I expected, because during the gameplay the games show me some simple features like to press a specific key, to press the key of the focus man or how to press the key in this order AHHHH (It's become difficulty with 4 or 5 persons haha).
In overall I liked all the features, thanks for bring this game to the jam :). Good Job.
This is so well scoped, and really well polished. The animation and sound on the menus are great. It was also really fun to play, and I appreciated the 'gimme a [whatever letter]' sections to help me get my brain in line with the keyboard.
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Would love to see this game get taken further!
We're getting ready to start diving into the LD46 submissions for sure! Today has been a today to catch up on things that have been neglected during the rush of development. I intend to start playing entries this evening :)
Also this game gave me a Wii game vibe, good work!
I coudn't enjoy it as I should. I couldn't locate the buttons easily. I wish they wore a shirt with letters on it so I can tell what to press.
and when I do locate the button. the wave is switched to other buttons :(
I think many people have the same complain.
Difficulty is absolutely the biggest point of criticism we get, and it's fair, our game is damn hard. We're continuing development of this game, and difficulty will be getting re-addressed in a major way. If anyone is interested in following along with future development, keep an eye on @nirufekriarnold on Twitter :D
In all seriousness though, great job! This game is crazy polished - you could put this up on steam as is and it'd be fine, IMO. All the little ways you add variation to game play, the visual and audio polish, it all works together so well. My _one_ suggestion would be, like other people have said, an option to label the crowd members with jerseys or something to show which letter they correspond to. Other than that though, genuinely blown away, great work!!
I think labelling the crowd with their corresponding letters would make a real difference to the gameplay, as it feels a little panicked when the active crowd members change and you have to try and work out which keys you need before the wave begins... you probably played this to death during development and have a feel for which is which, but I found that pretty hard going.
You could have the labels removed either as a difficulty option, or possibly during one of the in-game wave changes.
By the way, I love the in-game wave changes! Breaking up the loop with the wave cam and the car park call is a really nice touch - and the point where the entire crowd becomes active and you just slide across the whole keyboard like a piano feels somehow celebratory.
Very nice entry.
The game felt very polished. I liked all the little touches, like somebody throwing tomatoes (?), snowballs (?) at the crowd :laughing: Graphics is simple but informative and pleasant to look at. The color choices are great.
And the concept is unique. At least the first such in my experience. Really well done!
This game caught my attention from the beginning with a simple and aweasome transition of the screens.
For me try to understand how I'll press the key give me more fun then I expected, because during the gameplay the games show me some simple features like to press a specific key, to press the key of the focus man or how to press the key in this order AHHHH (It's become difficulty with 4 or 5 persons haha).
In overall I liked all the features, thanks for bring this game to the jam :). Good Job.
Heres the VOD from the other day if you're interested:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/614065908
Well done on this!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615928274?t=0h53m41s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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Here's my playthrough of it: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617130200
And here is me winning like Charlie Sheen hehe: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617130198