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A jam submission

Music RecitalView game page

Make it through your daughter's recital without leaving
Submitted by indinin — 1 day, 18 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#13243.4003.400
Overall#33462.4402.440
Fun#40412.0802.080
Presentation#46331.9201.920

Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The length of the recital is out of the player's control, as it is randomized each time you play.

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all art during the game jam

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

A true power move, to hold the player hostage like this. I definitely laughed.

Submitted

this was quite frustrating haha

Developer

I'll take that as a compliment!

Submitted

How much control did i have? little. How much patience did i have.... little... hahahahaha. It was a good laugh :) 

Developer

Don't fret, you're not the only one. My complete lack of patience is what inspired this game.

Submitted

I had no control in this situation, i just had to watch it all. Good job.

Developer

That is the idea :) glad you liked it.

Submitted

Laughed right from start, almost to the end. I just wish the music had gone crazier with time, but still, that was great!

Developer

Oh dang, that would've been cool. Glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

Wow this is great, what makes it even greater is that you used pre existing audio. I like to think that this took you the entire jam and you didn't have time to make a song anymore.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Haha yeah, completely ran out of time. The character models took forever, and don't get me started on the difficulties of that entrance animation. I finished with only 40 hours spare.

Submitted

Really funny game, good work!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Absolutely hilarious! This is a concept that is funny just describing it: "There was this one game in the jam that made you sit through a child's recital by holding down space bar" hahaha well done. Curious: I saw in the previous comments you generated the music? is this something you did in the game engine itself?
Also here's the game I did audio for if you wanted to check it out, thanks! https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2020/rate/696287#post-1639104

Developer

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! I made this game in Scratch, which has some instrument sounds built in. The "music" is basically random notes that are somewhat close to each other with a larger jump here and there. It's not exactly sophisticated, it just added to the "sub-par child recital"  feel I was going for.

Submitted(+1)

Gotcha, well you captured the cringy-ness well!

Submitted

I thought I was being funny with my flappy derpy mouth game. But here comes indigoninja, 1 entire day before the deadline and makes something funnier than I could have dreamed of. To you sir, madam or other, I take my hat off.

Developer

Dang, that made my day. Thank you so much!

Submitted

Totally get that the challenge is how long you can hold the spacebar, but it makes it kind of inaccessible for certain machines or, potentially for people with certain motor disabilities. The lack of variety is a factor there too. If you go further with it, maybe have it be kind of a "simon says" type thing? So the button you have to hold/release changes periodically?

Submitted

Sweet music!!! It's very realistic in terms of watching a recital, it's like hold spacebar to stay awake!!! A+++ Love those graphics too!

Developer

Thanks! I randomly generated the music myself so that's very high praise.

Submitted

I'm sorry, but this is boring

Developer(+2)

I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately your enjoyment is out of my control. Hope you find something more fun.

Submitted(+1)

You just didn't know how to play!