Another One Loops the Dust

by limered

co-authored: @helen, @justswn, @ryupold

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.27

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.01

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Another One Loops the Dust

After an exhausting day at work you just want to relax and listen to some music. You set up your record player and let it do its work.
Sadly, your home is a mess and full of dust so that the song starts to slow down and ruin the mood. But there's hope: Hansel the Hamster! Can he save the day or will the song stuck in an endless loop of disappointment?!

How to play

* You should play with sound
* Use Windows version for best perfomance
* Move with left mouse button
* Switch tool with right mouse button

Clean up dust with the broom and scratches with the hammer. Try cleaning up the record, before dust or scratches hit the needle. Dust will slow it down and scratches will make the needle jump.

Team

* Emil (limered) - Special Effects, Programming
* Michi (ryupold) - Special Effects, Programming
* Stefan - Cool music
* Helen - Design, Animations, Programming
* Sven (justsWn) - Programming, Sound

Software

* Unity
* Some graphic programs
* Visual Studio

Music

* Game Music: "Take on Me" by a-ha reinterpreted by Stefan
* End Music: 15 second loop from a free track from https://freemusicarchive.org slightly changed by us

(All rights belong to their respective owners.)

We hope you enjoy cleaning the record and having a song loop inside your head! Greetings from Germany :smile:

After Jam Edit: Replaced end song with a free one.

Tags: #hamster

Genres: racing

Tools: Unity

Comments48

6smith5 Oct 2020, 23:03

doesn't seem to load on my browser? i'm using firefox

arifacid5 Oct 2020, 23:06

I am sad that i did not get RickRoll'd. Very cool game!

StuxGeek5 Oct 2020, 23:07

Loved the drawn art-style and ofcourse it had to be that song. Good work!

Conneli5 Oct 2020, 23:07

Music choice was great! Loved the visuals as well!

justsWn5 Oct 2020, 23:07

@6smith Thanks for reporting, we are trying to fix it. It works in Chrome or Edge. Well, or the Windows build.

Yamo the Lucky5 Oct 2020, 23:08

super fun. very good audio management. laughed so hard :)

Ian McD5 Oct 2020, 23:12

Liked the aesthetic

Mat Stevenson5 Oct 2020, 23:14

Great game. Nice take on stuck in a loop. Worked fine on firefox for me.

Maxtemple5 Oct 2020, 23:15

love the graphics!

Matthewjd3895 Oct 2020, 23:16

Really fun! Upset I didn't finish the song, but I think that's on me!

Patsui5 Oct 2020, 23:16

+Great artstyle

+Gameplay was easy to grasp and fun

+audio was great

-original song would be better ;)

-player character could be bigger

Overall superb game, great scope also! Love the idea, good job!

limeredauthor5 Oct 2020, 23:21

@matthewjd389 You're in for a surprise, if you finish it ;)

DPS20045 Oct 2020, 23:21

Pretty fun game, a "how to play" section would have gone a long way I think. I am pretty sure you do not have the rights to the songs you are using though?

Matthewjd3895 Oct 2020, 23:33

@limered here i go loading it back up again. challenge accepted.

limeredauthor5 Oct 2020, 23:37

@dps2004 The song, that sounds similar to "Take on Me" was created by us (Stefan). The end song is just a loop of a part of the original song. So i think we are save here ;)

We added a how to play.

DPS20045 Oct 2020, 23:50

@limered it is not "similar" to take on me, its the exact same song with different instruments. And the end song is not from take on me, its "Shooting Stars" by bag raiders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feA64wXhbjo I don't think you are safe at all, especially considering the end song is a straight rip.

Andrew Babitt5 Oct 2020, 23:59

LOVED PLAYING THIS GAME! (all caps excitement)

Rhaelser6 Oct 2020, 00:00

Oh man, this looks good!

6smith6 Oct 2020, 00:15

@justswn nevermind it was just loading and i was impatient lol

@dps2004 using the song is definitely fair use

DPS20046 Oct 2020, 00:21

@6smith yeah, upon looking back, the take on me reinstrumentation is technically fair use I guess, but I'm not so sure about the shooting stars one. It's not even edited. Also, it really really rubs me the wrong way that none of these songs are even credited! All I can find in terms of credits is "Stefan - Cool music" which is not correct, unless Stefan happens to be a member of Bag Raiders

limeredauthor6 Oct 2020, 00:28

@dps2004 I don't want to argue with you here. Sure, we used the structure and melody from "Take on Me" and a 20 second loop from "Shooting Stars" where i added some wah wah effect, but we do not make money with this game and i think fair use should apply here.

We also added a music section to the description, so nobody gets fooled into thinking we wrote these songs in 72 hours.

DPS20046 Oct 2020, 00:30

@limered Thanks for adding a music section

walter976 Oct 2020, 00:46

Pretty funny, love the artwork and the music choosed

Albuquerque6 Oct 2020, 02:45

Wow.
The vibe this game gives is amazing.
Why does the dust keep ruining my mood! Nice entry

EvoGenGames6 Oct 2020, 07:30

What a unique game, I would have expected 'another one bites the dust' as the song though :smile:

Great job and thank you for the game!

BukkakeTears6 Oct 2020, 10:22

A little bit confusing at the beginning, but it got me when "Take on me" started playing in the background. Funny one. :D

Idan Rooze6 Oct 2020, 13:22

This idea is damn good, but on top of that you managed to execute it perfectly. I had such a great time with it, the game is so well balanced and the experience is superb. I like the little touch that hitting the needle resets the track and the way dust and cracks affect the music. Sound design is damn on point. Congratulations and good luck!

Tamail6 Oct 2020, 14:12

Oh, the image of a scratched, dusty record had me cringing. :D So far, one of the best take on the theme! Loved nearly everything about it, only if the controls were more, well, under control. :D

maxflav6 Oct 2020, 15:39

OMG, why is there so much dust? I was sneezing at the screen while playing. You need a dust cover for your record player! Also, I kept bumping into the needle and making the song start over... But that jam at the end made it all worth it.

Walkingtall856 Oct 2020, 16:14

Goddamn hilarious, like the idea, execution, art and the off music got me cracking up all the time. Was the art done with a board or vector?
Anyways great game!

Helen6 Oct 2020, 16:24

First of all: thanks for all the positive feedback! :)

@walkingtall85 I've drawn everything with a pencil on paper. Then I scanned it and did some adjustments like changing the color.

indigo6 Oct 2020, 17:15

This is definitely not "fair use" under German copyright law, as German copyright law pretty much doesn't _have_ fair use. You people just have never been sued by GEMA for performing a Beatles song in your local school's auditorium.

The game is awesome though!

thejackimonster6 Oct 2020, 18:27

Great idea! It fits the theme and I like the art style very much. ^-^

Zero-Ichi6 Oct 2020, 20:49

LOVED the game and the style !!!

Tom Kun6 Oct 2020, 20:56

I love the art style, but I didn't seem to know what to do:(

Helen6 Oct 2020, 21:12

@tom-kun when you see the record Player you've got to click on the play button on the right. Now the record starts and a hamster appears. You are the hamster who wants to keep the record clean while playing. Dust and scratches will appears. To clean/repair them you've got two tools (broom for dust and hammer for scratches). You van switch between Tools on right mouse click and move your hamster on left mouse click :)

Jake White7 Oct 2020, 06:24

This was a really fun game but you should've opted out of Audio, per the rules. Either way good job.

limeredauthor7 Oct 2020, 09:31

@jake-white We left audio in, because we remade the game song and made all the sounds. Also we modify the song on the fly during gameplay. That were the reasons behind opting in.
We can't opt out anymore so: If you are not ok with the sound, just do not vote in that category.

toasteater7 Oct 2020, 10:28

I enjoy the music and art style. Run-time audio manipulation is a great idea and is implemented very well. I wasn't able to figure out what I was supposed to do for a while, but eventually I realized that I should let the record play to the end. Perhaps a lose condition would have made that clearer. Nice game!

ForgeronStudio7 Oct 2020, 15:10

Really fun game! The art is great and everything fits together very nicely. I also thought the ending with the hamster flying about was really funny :)

Cubiclaw7 Oct 2020, 15:55

This game is designed to torture people - the game tricks you into thinking that you are doing well by letting you hear a few seconds of the song at normal speed, you relax and the game immediately hits you with more dust. You get mad, you start working extra hard and end up hitting the needle resetting the track. Took me over 6 minutes to beat the game :cry:

Excellent execution though - the art and the sound design are top-notch. Would get tortured again :smile:

Doot7 Oct 2020, 19:53

Haha I had so much fun!

The music is a nice choice, the art is really good, the ending is a blast.

Thanks for the game 💕

Eugenik9 Oct 2020, 02:15

amazing entry, nice job

eldogg9 Oct 2020, 16:04

Really cool audio effects and nice graphics style. Good job!

Michael Horst10 Oct 2020, 18:18

Cute game! I love the creative theme and gameplay, and the hand-drawn graphics were a lot of fun. I have just a couple pointers of feedback that are hopefully informative:
- A progress bar paired with the "Time Stuck in a loop" song timer would have been helpful. For a while I thought that timer was just saying how long I had survived and not the song time. It's also hard to see while playing.
- Some sound/music when the game starts would have been nice, especially when it says "Play with sound on!". I thought I accidentally had sound muted because I heard nothing, and the first sound isn't until you start playing.

All of that said, it was an excellent game and a great entry! Well done!

Miklou11 Oct 2020, 09:25

Nice game ! But i don't manage to reach the end ! Is it possible to listen the music somewhere ? It was really nice.

NamidaSai12 Oct 2020, 10:43

This was a hilarious take on the theme, well done! Quite limited in terms of gameplay, would have liked to see more events happening as the player progresses. Art style is really cute though!

jk500021 Oct 2020, 08:15

A simple and fun little game.

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