BEAT 'N' DEAD

by proz

co-authored: @evgraf, @final-sketch, @lazyseal, @normadesmond, @skullz, @soller

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.26

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.43

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Rhythm game with the possibility of being bitten and being awesome.

BEAT 'N' DEAD has the best fans of all. Tickets for their concerts are very limited, because they give the coolest show. If BEAT 'N' DEAD promised to give a show to their fans, they will give it to them. Despite the fact that all their fans have become zombies.

Don't miss what might be BEAT 'N' DEAD's last concert. It looks like there will be a few free riders at the concert and space at this concert will be extremely limited.

Here are a few rules that will help you succeed in our game:

- Use [right arrow] [D] for push zombies to right
- Use [left arrow] [A] for push zombies to left
- Get into the rhythm using any of the keys
- Collect combos by falling into rhythm several times in a row.
- By increasing your combo you increase your damage and your final score.

fun fact: when one of the band members dies, they actually stop playing their part of the music

Hyper Active Lazy Seals team.
- Anton Prozin - gamedesign, Lead
- Ilya Grigorev - code
- NormaDesmond - code
- Final Sketch - sound
- SKULLZ - 2d art
- Evgraf - 3d characters
- Soller - 3d animation

IMPORTANT - This game uses POLYGON Nightclubs props

We tried to make the game as simple as possible, but at the same time with a challenge.

Write in the comments your final score!

Tags: #zombies

Genres: rhythm

Tools: Unity

Comments31

qdyer2 Oct 2023, 23:48

Love the zombie song! Super fun. Was a little confused on if I was playing good or bad? Or if the Zombies were supposed to be hard to prevent. Maybe I didn't get far enough. Cute game though!

Owinmowe3 Oct 2023, 00:00

It was a little confusing, but nice submition!

LazySeal3 Oct 2023, 00:03

Come and beat limited 666 score C:

Cat Lab3 Oct 2023, 00:34

What a fun concept! It was a little hard to know when to hit the buttons to be precise (not quite with the beat maybe?) but my guesswork seemed to work alright. That song slaps!

WobbleBlocks3 Oct 2023, 07:21

I love rhythm games!

Phillip Scott3 Oct 2023, 08:44

Song was great, streaks seemed to be hard to maintain, was not sure on when to hit the keys, overall I like the game, art was great!

Shgamerk3 Oct 2023, 08:47

At the beginning I couldn’t get into the rhythm, but when I started going for the second time I got a taste. The music is great

Sora3 Oct 2023, 12:39

Fun game, really liked the music, fun concept. Took me a while to realize I should only be doing one input as I kept trying to do both at the same time, which admittedly let me go on for a good while but didn't score me much points xD

Soul Grinder3 Oct 2023, 15:58

Nice song, it fit well for the game. The zombies and band looked good too, nice work!

LDJam user 2627663 Oct 2023, 20:05

Woah so cool and stylish. I think I have bad feeling of rythm or it was bad slider but anyway game is coooool

Adam Konig3 Oct 2023, 20:44

Great entry! Visuals were very impressive for a game jam and gameplay was easy to understand and pick up!

Danjoricey3 Oct 2023, 23:09

Cool music, really funny that as the band members are eaten then instruments/vocals stop, and the style is cool and looks very good. I was confused by the "Streak" system for quite a while but think I picked it up after a while. For quite a while I just survived by hitting both buttons on the beat which gave me no streak (I guess due to unnecessary hits) but my score kept going up and zombies kept dying so I wasn't really punished for my bad spammy strategy haha. Very cool looking and sounding game!

Stalemeat4 Oct 2023, 00:34

I like the concept and the music. The setting was really well put together. I found myself just spamming the right and left keys to survive. Of course this just gave me a lousy score, but having some kind of penalty for not hitting the key on beat, like you freeze or the zombies dash a bit, will give the player more incentive to play correctly. This is an impressive entry though, especially for a jam! Great work.

Sandra C4 Oct 2023, 08:03

Hilarious idea! I love rhythm games but they are hard to get right when it comes to the timing. I think that is what could need to be worked on more but overall very fun experience!

digital bacon4 Oct 2023, 10:10

Don't normally like rhythm games, but this was really fun! Nice graphics, and I like the way the music changed as band members were killed off :rofl: Excellent work!

LDJam user 3012954 Oct 2023, 10:36

It seemed to me that the rhythm to click was off beat. Still a cool idea and the song was nice.
I'm not gonna rate you on graphics due to the assets, you can exclude rating categories when publishing :)

Dan M4 Oct 2023, 10:41

Really cool music features, I like the character designs as well (but it would be cool to get a closer look at the models in-game). I did find the precise timing on when I need to push the keys a bit strange, maybe its just me but it seems like the UI is a bit too blocky? Good stuff regardless.

MozokEvgen4 Oct 2023, 11:20

I've played in it like a clicker, just press keys to push zombies. When I tried to press in rhythm, I always miss a lot of zombies and they ate me.
Visual and audio part is great.

Prozauthor4 Oct 2023, 16:08

@kujoen Thanks for playing! We use assets only for props. 3d models for band and zombies + animations made by us. Because of this, we did not exclude the art from the ratings.

LDJam user 3012954 Oct 2023, 17:26

@proz ah i understand :)

VerttiXPertti4 Oct 2023, 18:03

I didn't really understand if I should be timing the rhythm markers or just spam to kill the zombies. I got 225 and made it to the end, but don't know if that's good.

Hyper Ion5 Oct 2023, 15:02

The physics of the zombies being blown back was hilarious. Cool game, great entry!

Gonzo135 Oct 2023, 18:09

Oh shit they ate my drummer! =) Nice entry! Well done!

knightoftheday6 Oct 2023, 11:45

It is only me feels like rhythm indication didn't match music beat? But great entry. Graphics and music really good.

Likirus6 Oct 2023, 11:50

Very nice rhythm game and well polished for a LD game. Did you create the music during the event? I tried to stick to the rhythm and it mostly worked (although I'm bad), but I also tried just mashing the buttons as quickly as I could and it also seemed to work, is there no penalty for missing a note? Also, the music bar seemed to slowly wiggle itself out of frame :D

NikaZ6 Oct 2023, 12:20

It's interesting when zombies eat musician and the music changes. In one of the attempts, I only had a drummer left, it was funny. Nice!

Prozauthor6 Oct 2023, 16:23

@likirus

Did you create the music during the event?

yes, all the sounds (which we never managed to add to the game) and music were created during the jam by the sound designer

music bar seemed to slowly wiggle itself out of frame

Yes, such a bug still remains, but it was discovered after the release of the game.

BlurdeBlah6 Oct 2023, 16:57

That was super fun! I can't keep a beat though xD Good Job!

creativ4eg6 Oct 2023, 21:44

I want to play it more)) Amaizing sounstrack and cool gameplay, not similar to other games in this jam

bobbie6 Oct 2023, 21:47

The concept is very neat - one of the music tracks fading away when a band member dies is a great way to communicate I've taken damage through audio (and it's funny)

I will agree it feels like there should be a bigger penalty for spamming, but overall this is a pretty fun take on the theme!

Kilominior8 Oct 2023, 03:02

This idea is super cool! Collecting combos seems to be a little hard for me, but this is still a good work:)

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