Dry Season

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.97
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.80
The dry season has come. As each year, you are part of the rain summoning team ! Give us your best moves or suffer the consequences of offending the rain gods ! Our prosperity is depending you !

-- Instructions --

use QWER key to dance in rhythm. Guitar hero style !
There is a small grace period after you failed a note.
At least one dancer must survive to summon the rain !

-- Levels --

There are 3 seasons (levels) to play based on different songs :

- seasons 1 is easy/normal difficulty based on original song from Elbbard - Conga bonga
- seasons 2 is hard difficulty based on orginal song from Elbbard - Voice of the depth
- seasons 3 is impossible difficulty based on the song The Entertainer by famous pianist Scots Joplin

-- Totally intended feature

There is a totally intended feature that lets you complete a level if you want to skip a song simply by loosing focus on the window of the game (click on another window) it will complete the level.

Made by

- Elbbard - code + music
- Pseudonclide - arts
- James Smith - code
- HolyPerceval - code + juice + amazing imitation of wilhelm scream

Stuff we used we didn't make :
FEEL by moremountains - paid license: https://feel.moremountains.com/
the entertainer - song - public domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(rag)
the entertainer - midi file: https://bitmidi.com/joplin-the-entertainer-mid
dry wet midi asset - free: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/audio/drywetmidi-222171
winning clap and cheers - free: https://freesound.org/people/BerlinGameScene/sounds/267247/ + https://freesound.org/people/timtube/sounds/69338/

Everything else was proudly made during ludum dare 55 by us !

Comments11

LDJam user 38639415 Apr 2024, 06:38
This game soooo much fun!! The music is wonderfully rhythmic, the rain dance is quirky, the death is unfortunate but very funny to watch.
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LDJam user 39112015 Apr 2024, 11:21
Nice game ! I love the punishement animation and the graphics overall, the idea is great and well executed :)
LDJam user 39083415 Apr 2024, 16:56
Fun game! First level was eazy but you really didn't hold back with the second one :D
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LDJam user 20240815 Apr 2024, 17:12
Haha this is so innovative I like it a lot! a minute of silence for those who perished in the process lol, the moment I heard the music of the last level I was like "hell no" :laughing:. it helps to rotate the keyboard vertically to match the layout on the screen though. and hey, I have the right to flex that I one the entire game without losing (minus some burned people but that's irrelevant XD). pretty cool game! I'm even more surprised you managed to make a rhythm based game that plays on the web without going out of sync every 2 seconds.
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LDJam user 38878215 Apr 2024, 18:03
I like it! The music is great for this kinda game. Makes it very satisfying to hit the keys
LDJam user 37628415 Apr 2024, 20:16
I played the first level and thought, "this won't be so bad, now give me a real challenge!" Then the second level gave me a real challenge. I haven't gotten past it (I think, like others are saying, the vertical orientation threw me off) but I definitely enjoyed what I played. My personal favorite part is the win sound effect, just the right amount of cheesy despite the "collateral damage".
LDJam user 37628415 Apr 2024, 20:20
Well, I still haven't attempted the second level again, but I remembered you said there was an "intended feature", so I went back in after leaving my review and beat the final level with one person left. I only actually "played" for like two seconds, the rest of the time my villagers were dropping like flies. I'm sure the last one will be all right...
LDJam user 38856316 Apr 2024, 19:34
Nice rhythm game. The concept is great and fits the theme well. I really like the graphics too. The difficulty curve is steep and the Entertainer proved to be a bit too difficult to me, though. Poor villagers :smile:
LDJam user 385671
LDJam user 38567116 Apr 2024, 21:05
Great submission!

A very nice rhythm game with some good beats.

also loved the games overall art style.

Found it very funny having people get struck by lightning for my mistakes.

Awesome work!
LDJam user 016 Apr 2024, 23:34
Really liked the game! Hope you make lots more in the future!
LDJam user 18180420 Apr 2024, 05:17
The execution is great, the music is nice and the connection between the moves and what happens in the music is very well done. The setting and overall idea is also very fun!

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