To the Beat of the Mountain King

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Flee from the Mountain King while you can, but you're only delaying your inevitable death. How long can you last?

Press the keys that scroll along the top or the bottom in time with the music to survive. Note that this game was designed with a numeric keypad in mind

Download one of the pre-packed versions (sorry for the size of the windows build!), or execute the source code directly if you have python installed.

To run the source code, make sure you have pygame and pyopengl installed (pip install pygame pyopengl), then type "python mountain_king.py"

v1.03 now uploaded to fix the bug reported by @krisztian (thanks!)

Credits
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*Music* : The music is provided by "In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra as the Musopen Symphony Orchestra for the Musopen Kickstarter Project."
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musopen_-_In_the_Hall_Of_The_Mountain_King.ogg

*Tiles / Effects / Monsters* : http://opengameart.org/content/dungeon-crawl-32x32-tiles

*Player* : www.lonegames.net

*Big Ghost* : Stephen Challener (Redshrike), Matthew Nash, Tunicate, Ben "Cookiez" Potter (with a link to this page: http://cookiez999.deviantart.com/), Charles Gabriel, as noted in description. Also include a link to OpenGameArt.org (https://opengameart.org/content/lpc-in-battle-rpg-sprites)

*Shield Effect* : Bonsaiheldin (http://web.archive.org/web/20211121190406/https://opengameart.org/content/shield-effect)

Genres: rhythm

Tools: pygame

Comments16

real_flamingicecubegames6 Apr 2022, 17:27

Nice game. I like the mix between an endless runner and a rhythm game. The music is a little quiet though, even at max volume.

ardorugus7 Apr 2022, 22:08

Wow, it's so hard to control with both letters and numbers! Fast lost there. Have to master my octopus skills. But the concept is nice).

Krisztián8 Apr 2022, 21:39

Really cool game, I enjoyed it a lot! ^^ The audio delay was a really good idea! :)
The fast moving background got me a little dizy after a while. :)
The medium difficulty mode was bugged for me, there were no notes, and nothing came on the level and the boss didn't shoot me.
These were the steps when it bugged out: finished easy mode (with -200ms audio delay), lost on medium, then I changed audio delay to -187ms, and started a game on medium. But then I could "repair" it by losing on easy mode, and switching back to medium.
But again, really cool game, liked it a lot!

tompuddingauthor8 Apr 2022, 21:55

Thanks @krisztian that was super helpful for reproducing the bug!

Locke813 Apr 2022, 17:32

Honestly i was not expecting this game to be as fun as it was, the keypad felt much better to play with than i anticipated. it feels quite responsive and the keys fit the music well. Good job.

Daniel Dewaswala13 Apr 2022, 17:33

Very fun to play, and extra respect knowing you used PYTHON!

Wizard13 Apr 2022, 17:40

Interesting take on the theme. Playing this gave me vietnam flashbacks of those games you played at school to help you practice typing lol. overall, well done.

HossamEL200616 Apr 2022, 15:49

Nice and fun game! Intresting use of the theme! Good job!

sacredbacon16 Apr 2022, 17:08

Great rhythm game, could definitely see something like this expanded to have a full track list. Very creative mix of hazards timed with the music. Well done!

VonFuzzius16 Apr 2022, 19:42

What should I say, the music is just the perfect choice for this. The graphics feel kinda mixed together but I guess they're fine, nothing to write home about though. But the game is fun, after you get used to the controls. I beat it on easy and tried for a while on medium, though I mostly concluded that ten seemed an insufficient amount of fingers for this game. But I enjoyed myself and I guess it leaves me room to grow. Good job!

dlan-bess16 Apr 2022, 20:20

Good choice of music, and it's feel a bit like a music game with the key in rhythm, especially when it go faster. It would have been better to have all the keys at the same place, having to look down then up then down add difficulty for no reason. Fun to play overall, great way of making a runner.

salyon16 Apr 2022, 21:15

Niice!

I liked the mood and ambiance, the rhythm timing matched very well with endless runner graphics!

To have so many different keys, especially numbers and letters, felt a little frustrating and more like a typewriter training, but the game sure has a lot of potential :)

BoroBoro18 Apr 2022, 14:00

Really love this one! Though it reminded me that I really suck at rythm games sometimes...

schwede20 Apr 2022, 23:01

Not bad writing a game in python! It’s a hard work to do all that by yourself! To get more this rhythmic feeling, you could have added sound effects when you hit the key success or unsuccessful. Check out this game for that rhythmic feeling:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/hang-up

Oohoos20 Apr 2022, 23:06

Buttons were hard to read even without screenshake - pretty blurry. But my eyes do suck.

I really like music based games and wish there were more. Loved the idea and would totally play more with more music options!

SasquatchBStudios21 Apr 2022, 04:03

solid game! I must say you chose the PERFECT song for this, it made it pretty intense.
Was a fun play.

I found the text pretty blurry even without the screenshake and it became hard to read after a while.

Well done!

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