Ballroom

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Ballroom is a short Romance & Rhythm game featuring TWO endings. Made by Stellar Bear Games for Ludum Dare 47: *Stuck in a Loop*.

Can YOU dance your way out of this loop?

Controls

Arrow Keys - Dance, Choose Dialog

Space Bar - Accept

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Comments39

pee-thief
pee-thief5 Oct 2020, 22:39
This is so cute and clever!!
Fockx
Fockx5 Oct 2020, 22:44
This game is so adorable. I really like concept and atmosphere. Also music track 'Dreaming of you' is so good!
BananaGuyBob
BananaGuyBob5 Oct 2020, 22:48
very nice game, i loved the music, especially at the end scene. great job
Steamdr4gon6 Oct 2020, 15:56
Cute little rhythm game with a happy end, I love it.
Usenrame
Usenrame7 Oct 2020, 00:14
Brilliant game, so romantic :) Also my dance moves are awful :D
Tomssuli
Tomssuli8 Oct 2020, 16:39
That was fun and cute. I wonder if there is a different ending if you don't step on the toes at all.
StellarBearGames
StellarBearGamesauthor8 Oct 2020, 18:34
@usenrame @meatball Thanks for playing.

@tomssuli Thanks, the only 2 endings are decided by dialogue choice. But if you manage to survive dancing indefinitely then you have my respect.
manusaiz
manusaiz8 Oct 2020, 23:54
Hello fellow bear! So I LOVED the mood.
I wish the arrows didn't syncro in the end cause it was a bit messy to try and survive long while having to look at the arrows rather than hearing the music, but I know the struggle with syncrho xD

Great entry, gz!
Chukwuebuka_racer9 Oct 2020, 01:30
Wonderful!
I couldn't survive the dancing, the keys popped out too much
SelfTitled
SelfTitled9 Oct 2020, 06:00
Lovely game, with a nice warm feel to it. Its a little hard to read the text and play the rhyme game, meaning I missed a lot of the dialogue. Its hard not to feel happy about this game, well done.
Shimali9 Oct 2020, 16:07
Loved the music, would have loved for the input sound to be less "beepy" and more fitting to the general audio. I enjoyed playing!
Eugenik
Eugenik9 Oct 2020, 17:04
Great game, simple mechanic but hugely addictive!
etrealjunior
etrealjunior9 Oct 2020, 19:58
Wow what a beautiful story, even if he steps on her feet they stay together, beautiful art and game, I thought that the difficulty goes up very fast, and one thing in this type of games that we didn't even notice right is the animation after the tip view focused on a single point, congratulations on the game, if you can give me your feedback on my game I am very grateful, a big hug.
acaral11 Oct 2020, 14:45
Mood : 5 stars

As mere as good. Nice storytelling, nice staging, nice music. With a progressive difficulty (damn moving arrows... :smile: ).
In fact I'm surprised, and I have to say that it's a nice entry
gamechoy
gamechoy11 Oct 2020, 15:19
What a wholesome entry :). I like how even if you fail you can still get the "good ending". As someone who is very involved in music it really bothered me that the arrows didn't align with the beats of the waltz haha! I think there's a lot of potential here for you to expand on this idea, maybe prolong it to multiple dances and have a whole slew of choices! And with that it would be great if you wrote your own music for it so you could line up the arrows/beats to really bring this to the next level. The art style was excellent and I loved the atmosphere that came with it. Great work and great entry! Hope you consider expanding on this in the future!
KOHCEPBA
KOHCEPBA13 Oct 2020, 07:53
This is what I am looking for on Jams like LD. Something simple yet innovative, with a cool mood and overall interesting idea. Great job.
Matootsy
Matootsy17 Oct 2020, 08:59
Very funny idea. I love the mood and the dialogus, and the fact that there's different ending, even if we crushes the dancer's feet all the time ^^ In fact, nothing new, it's just a rythm game. But the humor and mood make it special. If I have one "complain", it would be that the dance is more teleportation than dance. Whatever, thanks for this smooth and funny Ambience!
Emperor Eagle
Emperor Eagle19 Oct 2020, 01:07
Very cool! I liked how the story was quick and worked well no matter what happened. The instructions were clear (I wasn't sure at first when to push the arrow keys as I didn't see the arrow, but I understood pretty quickly). The graphics are nice and the music fits it really well which all creates a great mood. Overall, a very inventive idea that I enjoyed!
FelixMcFelix
FelixMcFelix21 Oct 2020, 17:45
I thought it was really cutesy and sweet. Imagine my surprise when you decided to amp up the difficulty of dancing! Very nice, and a lovely ending.
Rialgar21 Oct 2020, 17:49
I got the feeling the game was yelling "come on, loose already" :smile: Love it!
Teto
Teto22 Oct 2020, 11:38
This was a really sweet little game with really nice graphics and I was really rooting for the guy aha. Like prvious comments, I found it was really difficult with the beats not syncing with the music since I had the block out the music in order to not automatically tap in time. Other than that, really nice entry!
Shelvid
Shelvid24 Oct 2020, 01:20
Nice simple little entry with a pleasing aesthetic and audio! One thing that felt weird is that you had cooldown on arrow keys (Or maybe sound is what had cooldown, not sure) and at some point 2 arrows started coming in at once, not sure if this was intentional or a bug hahah. But still, well done on the entry :)
AmusingFrog
AmusingFrog24 Oct 2020, 09:31
Good job! I love the music but the sound when you choose the right move might be a bit lower.
TheCrittersCove
TheCrittersCove24 Oct 2020, 18:27
Cute little game. Guess the only thing I thought could have been better is the indicator for where to hit the arrows. A range or box would have been nice. But it's a minor issue as the game is forgiving in that regard.

Lovely job on such an adorable game!
sakura_magika
sakura_magika25 Oct 2020, 21:40
i enjoyed this quite a bit, the pixel graphics and animation were charming, and the music fit really well too. i actually do social waltz in real life, so this was cool to find in the game jam. nice quote from futurama, perfect!

i got wrecked when the super fast arrows started flying at me (i think the third phase of the game). reminded me of those ridiculous DDR and taiko maps that have different speeds of arrows at the same time.
imod
imod26 Oct 2020, 18:42
Nice game! I very like graphics.
toby1645
toby164527 Oct 2020, 16:32
A fun game. It had good graphics, good gameplay, and good audio. An ideal Ludum Dare game, good job!
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