a rhythm game where you have to press notes to build cute houses is the coolest idea ever. I did have some issues, like the “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” level not working, and a very, very specific one where the “ [ “ , “ ] “ and “ = “ keys didn’t work for me because my keyboard has a different layout based on my language (changing the keyboard layout to English still doesn’t fix the “=” key)
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Harmonic Heights's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Creativity | #2283 | 3.350 | 3.350 |
Style | #2685 | 3.183 | 3.183 |
Overall | #3208 | 2.967 | 2.967 |
Enjoyment | #4573 | 2.367 | 2.367 |
Ranked from 60 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 player builds houses by playing keys on a piano. The new neighborhood is being built to musical scales.
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asset sources: kenney.nl (input icons), axulart (palette), nathan hoad (dialogue manager), roland eigelsreiter (midi parser), marek belski (game menu templates), somepx (fonts)
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Wow I love this :D Taking the theme to mean musical scale and having a guy build along is so creative :) For me the art style is also very nostaglic and comforting. Amazing work!
yo this is really cool!! some of the levels were def pretty tough lol (68% on the wellerman,,, welp). the scope of the project is insane you have so many songs up here for 96 hours. My bit of critique is that the notes spawn too low, and are kind of tough to react to. maybe have them spawn higher up so you can react better?
This is really hard for me lol. But i enjoy the difficulty! Thanks for making this!
Awesome art style and color palette! Really creative take on the theme! Awesome job!
Fun idea!
At first I didn't understand the Level Selector, haha! It was too dark and it lack contrast, but good job
This game made me learn I suck at music related things. Neat idea, however!
IM KIND OF BAD AT PLAYING MUSIC BUT,,,, I LIKE TO HIT THINGS WITH A HAMMER SO ITS AWESOME
Pretty neat seeing a rhythm game in a jam, just too bad I'm not very good at them lol. Kudos
So I like the concept, and I'm being nitpicky even though it's a jam game, but... the notes played on the keyboard had very little (other than kinda rhythm) to do with the melody being played, and then not to mention the keys made a sound for the key being played, but that was played underneath the synth beep melody, which almost all the time was a completely different note which created this dissonant clash whilst I played, which was highly distracting haha. Overall, I couldn't find a way to ignore the weird note clashes, but playing piano keyboard for a rhythm game is a fun idea!
Fun little game. I'm always a fan of rythm games, and I like what you did here. I'm not a piano player, so I utterly sucked at the game, but that doesn't matter. It was kind of a tease to have the Wii music at the menu but not having it included in the game, tho :P
This was a fun idea! I had a hard time with the controls, but it was well made with a very cute style!
I really enjoyed the game!! Love the rhythm aspect and how you took the theme quite literally loool - I will say I think having the piano notes play while the music is playing can be quite jarring as they're different notes. Overall, great game!!
I really love this interpretation of the theme, the whole game is really creative! I will say though that I found myself getting a little frustrated at the game as it was just a little too much all at once making it hard to focus in and play the notes. I feel like this game would be a lot easier too for someone who knows how to type, but I unfortunately do not lmfao. Overall this is a great game though, as I said the art/theming/game idea are all really creative and I think you did a great job :)
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