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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #13 | 4.735 | 4.735 |
| Creativity | #98 | 4.353 | 4.353 |
| Overall | #110 | 4.176 | 4.176 |
| Enjoyment | #1249 | 3.441 | 3.441 |
Ranked from 34 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?
Toys are built, and are playing musical scales!
Development Time
96 hours
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https://www.1001freefonts.com/digital-play-st.font
https://www.fontspace.com/musical-tone-font-f103067
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lovely fun game! stunning visuals...(love the take on the theme):D
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for checking our game out <3
I like this game, it somehow reminds me of fnaf. I feel like there should be more things to keep an eye on for the gameplay, but the art is amazing!
I can kinda see what you mean with the fnaf vibes, haha, though I don’t think it was one of our inspirations here. We did have the idea to add extra hazards around the screen at some point, but decided to concentrate on polishing up our main mechanics. Thanks for playing!! <3
The style here is absolutely wonderful and leads to wonderful vibes. The knobs are a bit annoying to control, I never really understood how to turn them properly after playing around a bunch, but the game has good enough vibes and music that I still had a good time. Nice work.
The knobs took trial and error and we still didn’t reach that perfect point for them. They’re definitely buggier on the web version as the panels go down if you get too far from them when adjusting. They should stay in place as long as you’ve got a knob selected (works like that on the downloadable version). I’m glad to hear we were able to compensate with everything else! Thank you so much for playing!
I like the style of combining real-life photo with cartoony characters. Really love that rat playing strings with its beard! I'm not even sure if the music is playing correctly since I have numb ears haha.
Our little rat was fun to animate playing his whiskers! You can check if they're out of tune on the knobs below (if the little light under them is black, they're playing wrong) or you can try to observe their poses! If they look like they go too high (very overconfident) or too low (where they also look a lil nervous) they're playing out of tune <3
Very good game. Nice job!
Thank you for trying it out! <3
That was wonderful! The characters are so charming, and the measured abundance of color set a carefree, feel-good mood without distracting from the important gameplay elements. It took me a minute to get in the groove, but I was smiling for the entire play session and came out the other end feeling like I'd just experienced something really special.
I’m glad to hear that the background and the lil lights weren’t too distracting as that was a point we discussed. We figured the movement of the characters would help bring focus to them and away from all the extra detail! Thank you so much for sharing your sweet thoughts!
Awesome game but I wish dragging the knobs didn't feel so clunky (maybe it's a me problem?)! I really love the concept, wild mix of art styles, and the music. Y'all have something special here!
It definitely is not a you problem! We had a few iterations on how the knobs worked, and we landed on this after getting some feedback, but I do wish I could have improved their feel to make them more intuitive for sure. We’re so glad you enjoyed the art and the music. Everyone on the team really put their hearts into the game. Thank you for playing!
A Toy Story Orchestra!
10/10 on creativity, 11/10 on style!
10/10 comment <3
The most stylish game I've played by a mile!! I love the character animations and the realistic background and the sound design and everything about how it looks and sounds!!!!
On the gameplay side, I wish there was more to plan around, as it felt like I was just sitting there waiting for something to go wrong or something to click on. I was vibing the whole time though!
I had the pleassure of animating the characters, so I'm glad you liked the looks of everything!
We did our best to keep things simple and on a sort of middle ground, that's why we have both the parry mechanics and the knobs! And for less skilled players (my family) they struggled a lot more and were constantly trying to get the lil guys back in tune haha. Also, the first versions of the game were way worse on the waiting side (there was a song that only had like 5 mistakes and they were way easier to avoid).
Thank you so much for playing our game! <3
Nice art!
Thank you! We did our best as artists to make something fun and cute <3
Beautifully designed!
Thank you very much for playing! <3
AMAZING GAME, don't know how you finished it lol.
With lots of teamwork! Communicating so we know what everyone is doing and what needs fixing, as well as prioritizing our tasks goes a long way! Very glad you enjoyed it, we put a lot of love into it <3