Lil Lads Hit the Notes (Or fall into lava and they don't want that)

That was such a cool little game, a very cool twist on the theme!

neat lil game :) Controls were nice, and music was good. Graphics were cute, but I think the particle effects on the side were a bit much on the eyes

Very cool game, I didn't know about pico-8 I'm exited to check it out. My one piece of feedback is that using the mouse to select the column is a bit jarring because the pointer's resolution doesn't match your actual mouse's. I think I would have preferred to use the arrow keys. I love the mood and the cute pixel art though!

The particles on the side are a bit distracting, but cute game well done!

Glad y'all enjoyed the game! Gonna work on hopefully making the side particles a little less distracting. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Really simple. Love PICO games. I got 438 score. Fun!

I enjoyed it, thats a nice interpretation of the theme!

I really enjoyed it, the only thing I may have liked was a little tutorial or intro since I spent my first few attempts trying to spawn enemies to far up. Once I realized that there was a specific spawn area though it I got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Cute game. I liked it, I often would click twice though that might just be my mouse. I'm also not too good with rhythm games. So that probably didn't help. I liked the art, and the sound was good. maybe the notes could be a different color. was hard to see them sometimes from I think the side particles don't know my eyes would glaze over and I would miss them. could just be a me thing though. Anyway, good job on making a game! It was fun.

A nice little game for a first try with Pico8. Not much to say, it works well. As a minor remark, I am not very convinced by the effect on the side which is a bit aggressive.

Overall, well played!

My best score :

1300ish high score! Very fun game and the graphics were really cute. I just wish both the fire effects on the sides and the cauldrons near the finish line were less distracting. Also, what about keyboard controls? Maybe position the summon with WASD and hit space to summon it. Anyway, those are minor criticisms. Great stuff!

Once I figured out I could only click in the bottom area, the entire game clicked. What a fun concept. Fits the theme perfectly and is very original and innovative, as well as well executed. Great job!

Cute game and overall a fun game, really like the pixel art. Got a bit repetitive after a while.

Great little game. The only issue is that it's hard to tell where the cursor is pointing because of its shape, almost like it's off-center somehow. But after a while, I get used to it.

I liked the music a lot. The particles on the side were a bit much though. Nevertheless, cool entry.

Cool game. I feel like collecting the music note could fit more with the background music

It was quite a cool game! The mouse control threw me off a little bit if I was not playing on fullscreen, but it was lots of fun! :D

It was an unusual experience. I really love pixel graphics and I really liked this, although it would have been fashionable to increase the pixel depth and it would have been great. In terms of gameplay, you can get bogged down for a long time playing this game, but the time is not endless) Overall the game is wonderful

Nice game, I did a score of 1000. A simple but nice game!

Cool twist on the theme! Nice and simple :)

This was fun! Cool take on the theme and very arcadey feel.

I really like pico8 and made a game for the jam a few years ago. I like the overall vibe :) but I don't feel the connection with the theme :/

Thought I'd throw my high-score into the mix ^^

I think the run was over 10-20 minutes

(Got this score on Mobile in web browser !!)

Neat little game, simple but fun. Its a very subjective thing, but I found the mouse movement a little bit too "sticky" in the slots for the notes. This made it feel a bit heavy, if that makes any sense?

This was fun for a few rounds. I think I'd have preferred a keyboard input instead of the mouse, and it would've been nice to have a way to recover health so it reduced pressure to be perfect. Overall presentation was nice, good job!

Fun little game, it took me a moment to get what was happening, but it was fun finding out and even more fun when I knew what was happening. The musical element is really, really cool!

Nice game, simple, but fun and polished! The mouse felt a bit weird, and at first I thought you could only summon little lads in the two pink button-like things at the bottom left and right, but I eventually got it.

It's an interesting concept, I've had a good time playing it. Good job!

Fun! I got to 1219, things were heating up!

I'm not totally sure how the individual tones (when the fish boys eat the music notes) relate to the tune underneath, but it's also not important that I understand how they relate. Nice job, definitely a good difficulty balance!

fun, simple & very cute, i wish the mouse cursor could move freely and there was some other representation of which column you were hovering over, since snapping it to the grid makes it feel a little sluggish.

@mr-field Great idea! I may try adding a smooth mouse back in and keeping the extra "column" indicator as well :)

Neat game, I love playing PICO-8 games, even if I've never made one ^_^. The mouse felt unresponsive, since the cursor was hidden it meant that each time I wanted to move over a column, I had to move a different distance than the last time (depending on where the hidden cursor was inside a column, I guess) - it would have felt much more responsive if the cursor was still visible (and just showed the hover highlight like it did now). Other than that, it was pretty fun =). Poor cats, always ending up in the lava...

Nice entry! It was fun, and the tune is very catchy! Just a bit too bad that the notes you hit with your summons don't participate more in the melody? Maybe chosing some that fit on a compatible pentatonic scale would have made it a bit better for me. Anyway, it looked good and was fun!