GMTK Game Jam 2021

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A jam submission

Bound To The BeatView game page

Escape hell by competing in a rap battle

Submitted by Matteo Vera (@matteovera1) — 27 minutes, 19 seconds before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Presentation	#2761	2.673	2.673
Overall	#3566	2.333	2.333
Fun	#3877	2.058	2.058
Originality	#3981	2.269	2.269

Ranked from 52 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 game is a rhythem game where you must play the A part of a song and the B part of a song at the same time. Combining loops of different lengths creates pretty interesting and difficult procedural music.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

Comments

errol333Submitted3 years ago(+1)

I liked the art style but I wasn't very good at the game haha. I think some feedback of "too early" or "too late" would be helpful.

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Turn the Tide

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FiltraxSubmitted3 years ago

I really like the art and animation.

The notes' timing is rather hard to hit. It would be great to have some feedback on the arrows when you press too early or too late.

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Chained to the Beat

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Matteo VeraDeveloper3 years ago

We almost have the same name for our games lol.

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YutsoSubmitted3 years ago (1 edit)

I liked this one ! I'll admit that I didn't get how it is related to the theme at first and still think it's a little far-fetched, but a great little game anyway !

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Joinder

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THX3 years ago

Cool game, I appreciate the difficulty option, though I think a lot of this game's difficulty is just how precise you have to be when hitting notes. I really like the character designs though, nice job.

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Matteo VeraDeveloper3 years ago

Yeah I think I should have had a much longer window for allowing hits and a system for (good/great/perfect) hits. To late to change anything now though. -_-

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krumble03Submitted3 years ago

The game was good. It is just not my type of game.

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thisisivanSubmitted3 years ago

Interesting art and cool system of difficulties.

I button mashed to get the tunes right, which probab;y was not the designed intent.

What was linked together tho?

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Slitherin'

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Matteo VeraDeveloper3 years ago

The idea is that an A part of a song is linked together with a B part of a song and must be played at the same time. With A parts and B parts being different lengths this leads to a variety of emergent melodies.

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BenNBenSubmitted3 years ago

The notes could benefit from being a bit easier to hit, at least at the lower beats per minute. That being said, the game idea is really unique and I enjoyed the art style and concept overall.

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PinballHead

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ittfwebdesign3 years ago

Off to a good start!

The precision makes it unplayable to me in its current state, in a music game, the sound quality must really be at a point where I can listen to it for more than 30 seconds,

I encourage you to keep working on this, and make it a bit easier on the ears, in addition to more forgiving controls.

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MonkeyBusinessStudiosSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

this game is really hard but extremely fun, i spent a while trying to get the notes just right

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Canine Conundrum

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baiaoooSubmitted3 years ago

cant hit the notes, it requires too much precision =[

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Friendly Square

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Matteo VeraDeveloper3 years ago

Sorry about the difficulty being a bit hard. I recommend playing an easier song like "Life and Death" at 60 BPM on the downloadable version of the game. I'm able to play about 20 BPM faster on the downloadable version because of the smoother framerate.

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SolaSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I LOVE music games!! The music here was really funky - I especially like that you have a lot of control over beats and music genre. Super cool!

Also apparently I am very bad at this game HAHA