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A jam submission

Swan SongView game page

Solve puzzles in an old music box by creating your own music scales!
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#154.7204.720
Overall#714.2604.260
Creativity#2544.1704.170
Enjoyment#3323.8903.890

Ranked from 100 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?
Swan Song is a relaxing puzzle game about building your own music scales. You're grandpa left you with a small magical music box. It's up to you to solve it and reveal its secrets. Puzzle your way through numerous levels by placing notes on the scale and cranking the box. Watch your composition come to life when the box starts playing your musical score which moves & twists the gears & platforms, in order to get your little Goose safely to its nest! You only need your mouse to play: Simply click and drag notes on your scale and crank the crank to start your composition and solve the puzzle!

Development Time

96 hours

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Submitted(+1)

Really intriguing take on the theme! Well crafted for in all regards for a small game made in a small amount of time.

Developer

Thank you very much! 😁

Submitted(+1)

The game aesthetic is amazing and the mechanics were neat once I understood them! Overall loved the atmosphere and puzzles! And the goose.

Developer

Thank you! 😁

Submitted(+1)

When I saw the photos for the game I thought "it can't be this good, it's just a jam game right?" but it WAS. So much charm is oozing out of whole thing, and whilst it could do with a tutorial (grandpa is not sneaky by trying to say figure it out yourself), it is visually great and mechanically sound (pun intended) as well. Overall A+ game! If you guys have the time, we'd also appreciate it if you took a looksy at our game < 3

Developer

Aw thank you so much! Always nice to read comments like this! Definitely gonna give yours a go too! 

Submitted(+1)

Wow, the art and presentation for a game jam game are top notch. The concept is novel and enjoyable. 

I could see this really expanded upon and made into a full release. I'd love to see the background music more directly tied into the music of the scale.

Developer

Thanks for these kind words! We are thinking of making it into a full game! As for the music we didn't have the time to make it more immersive!

Submitted(+1)

The entire game is great!

Developer

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!:)

Submitted(+1)

Amazing game. Art and music are wonderful. Puzzles are also great, mayby a little too easy, but still fun.

Developer

Thank you! :D

Submitted(+1)

It's a really relaxing and beautiful game, especially the background music. The puzzle mechanics are quite fun, and it's a clever interpretation of the theme. Well done ! Only annoying thing is that sometimes the notes get "stuck" and you have to shake them loose with the mouse

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! :D we have heard a lot that the notes are to hard to get loose, so we will be changing that!

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

Unbelievably pretty! It took me a little while to figure out what the game is about but then it players smoothly. I liked the horizontal and vertical multi-notes as constraints that you have to work with.

Picking up notes was sometimes a bit finicky, and there was a bit of a delay after I twist the key before the goose would start to move, but those were minor issues that were easy to work around.

Developer

Thank you very much for playing and the feedback! We will change a lot of the finicky stuff in future updates! :D

Submitted(+1)

Really beautiful game!

I did have some issues with placing the notes on the grid.

Developer

Thanks for playing and for reporting these issues! We had a few people tell us that they had problems with placing notes sometimes! So we will fix that in the future! :D

Submitted(+1)

This is so great that the music box actually feels like a physical object you interact with. I also pitched the idea of the puzzle about musical scales to my team, but we desided to make another game. And good for us, because you've done it as good as possible.

Developer

Thank you sooooo much! :D We have to check out you're teams game too then after that compliment! :D

Submitted(+1)

Game is beatiful and very polished. I found small bug on first level with double note, I had put it on the single note and then changed position of single note but after that the game didn't detect double note, so I lose, music box closed and stay in that state so I had to restart the game. Regardless this bug it was fun experience.

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you very much for playing and sorry about the bug! It can happen sometimes because we didn't have time to make checks for everything sadly! :o

Submitted(+1)

This is beautiful! A puzzle concept that's simple to pick up, but still requires a bit of thinking with every new puzzle, of which there's quite a lot more than I expected. The presentation is really charming!

Developer

Awww thank you!:) glad you enjoyed it! 

Submitted
Deleted 19 days ago
Developer

Thank you!! :D

Submitted(+1)

such a beautiful game! reminded me a bit of We Were Here puzzles.

it looks just perfect, the only wish I have is probably not to reset my notes after i had an unsuccessful attempt — it can get a bit repetitive to place notes again instead of making some changes. but apart from that it was amazing :)

Developer

Thank you very much! And that's great feedback actually! :D

Submitted(+1)

This is the prettiest game in the jam. I'm also a geese worshiper so extra points for that <3

Developer

Thank you so much! And geese for the win! :D

Submitted(+1)

I wish there was 6 stars in style, this is so beautiful, the music was fitting perfectly.

I think what would be even more immersive for the player, would be to add more musicality in the mecanic sound itself (when the step is played, playing a corresponding note of the scale).

GG guys !

Developer

Hey! Thanks for the very kind words! :D Yeah, the notes is something we want to look at to make it a bit more correct for a future update maybe! :D

Submitted(+1)

Really beautiful and cozy puzzle game! Maybe I would have been more engaged in the gameplay if the reaction to my answer was faster, because the few seconds of waiting for the box to start playing was a bit annoying. Also i really like your view of theme!

Developer

Thanks for playing & the feedback! And yeah, that's feedback we have heard a few times now! We will keep in in mind if we make changes in the future! :D

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful visuals, whouaw <3 ! 
And Puzzles are great designed.

Developer

Thanks!! :D

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful visuals and lovely music. The serenity of it all is very pleasing.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing and the kind words! :D

Submitted(+1)

The game is really beautiful and touching! The puzzles are very nice. Great job!

Developer

Thanks for playing and the kind words! :D

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