I love the way you implemented the theme into your game! Great job creating the game within 48 hours as well!
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Scales to Scale the Scaled's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1138 | 3.730 | 3.730 |
| Overall | #2479 | 3.175 | 3.175 |
| Style | #3052 | 3.048 | 3.048 |
| Enjoyment | #3369 | 2.746 | 2.746 |
Ranked from 63 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?
Players use musical scales to literally build a drawing of animals with scales
Development Time
48 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
I created all assets for the game
Comments
I love the concept of this game, nice take on the theme! Gameplay was challenging but in a way still relaxing. Overall just a great job!
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Switching ScalesLove the musical take on a not-quite 'bullet hell'! Hearing the notes play with each collection is very soothing while frantically trying to dodge the unneeded notes. I would recommend adding a low-key background track for the notes to blend in to, it would add a bit more character. Overall, great work!
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Exponential ExpansionIt is a great game, with an amazing idea. The gameplay was fun, and having to try harder after notes reset you back in my opinion gave it quite a challenge which I enjoyed. I really loved the art of the animals. I found it relaxing hearing the SFX match with the notes hit, so great job on that too. Discussed stuff via DMs that I would change. Otherwise, great job!
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Matter of SizeThs is an amazing idea and the game is absolutely beautiful. However it was infuriating to play. Often there were no places to stand without notes and even hitting thee samee note twice would resart the progress. I feel like the aesthetic vibes are goig fro a zen game but the difficult gameplay had me not even payng attention to the artwork by the end.
Very well made and gorgeous, well done.
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Creature CondosTo hear it was infuriating is really disheartening but its great feedback!! Thank you for taking the time to play!! I almost added a small cutout to the edges of the screen to go for a "safe" zone but I wasnt sure if i should; after your feedback I'm gonna add it for the next round of play testing I do for it to see if it reduces the difficulty and frusteration at all.
Great idea! The animal pictures are also great. I'm going to try to learn musical scales with this game.
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super looo0000ong break blockVery fun idea which obviously fits the theme well multiple times. I enjoyed the game play but was frustrated at how often I needed to restart because the notes spawn too far down or are on top of each other, despite this I had fun and it was a very good job :)
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RuneweaverA fun interpretation on the theme! Pretty challenging, but it was fun dodging and weaving between the different notes to hit just the right one. Great work!
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PORTALgeistNice game, there's lots of time waiting for the right note you need to appear.
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duel of the frogsWow, this is a super sweet idea.
I like how you have to try to avoid the different notes in order to get the note next on the scale. It is definitely a unique idea that I haven't seen so far. Though I have to say that resetting the whole progress was a bit frustrating, I was so close to the end multiple times and then had to completely start from the beginning. It wasn't a big deal, but I thought I would mention it.
One thing that also might have been nice is a bit of relaxing, quiet background music, because if you are looking for a specific note and it doesn't spawn in a while, it's pretty much complete silence.
Besides that, the drawings are absolutely gorgeous, and seeing the different stages from start to finish is super cool. I really love how you interpreted the theme. Really cute, small game. Good job!
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What I Imagined When Playing LegosGreat job, I like the multiple interpretations of the theme and the hand drawn art is great too. GG!
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There's Always A Bigger Fish...It definitely follows the theme but the controls felt a bit slippery at times and it feels that most of the focus went to the animals' art work
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Scribble's BalanceVery nice style with the charcoal drawings. I would have loved music in the background and the notes appearing in musical rhythmic intervals.
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Beat of the DeepThe game looks so charming! The art style reminds me of Japanese prints for some reason :)
I especially love that even if you don't play it right and just mess around it still feels like fun. Just enjoying some music here, no matter how chaotic it may become!
I would probably like it to proceed a bit slower or have some kind of tutorial, cause it is a bit difficult to deal with everything right now. Maybe at first there shouldn't be so many options, just to get used to the gameplay and memorize the order in case you need to memorize it. Thus it can be both educational and a bit easier to master!
Aww, thank you!! I did the artwork with charcoal and having you say it reminds you of japanese prints is really cool for me as that style is hard for me to recreate even though I love it.
I wanted to have easier versions and harder versions of the game with this one being the middle ground but i just ran out of time. I definitely plan on slowing down the speed for the easy version too.
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