Love the concept ! It's a bit hard to grasp at first, especially if the first beats not doing anything
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FactoRHYTHM's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #597 | 3.957 | 3.957 |
| Overall | #838 | 3.723 | 3.723 |
| Style | #1059 | 3.851 | 3.851 |
| Enjoyment | #1441 | 3.362 | 3.362 |
Ranked from 47 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?
I interpreted the "Scale" part of the theme as musical scales, and then extrapolated that idea to building musical rhythms as that was more interesting to build puzzles with. Your factory also scales up as the levels progress. As for the "Built" part, well, you build a factory. Pretty simple.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Metronome-Bell-96.wav by Seidhepriest -- https://freesound.org/s/191959/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Metronome-Tick-Bellish.wav by Seidhepriest -- https://freesound.org/s/191958/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
UI Click 4.wav by FiveBrosStopMosYT -- https://freesound.org/s/537029/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Click by complex_waveform -- https://freesound.org/s/213148/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
"Celebration" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Funk Game Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Honey Bee" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Comments
190 days ago(+1)
Wow! Thanks for playing! Fun fact: all the music was actually Kevin Macleod stuff lol. I think Level 3 was harder than I intended it to be because you need to get the placement of the onbeats AND the offbeats correct.
Interesting idea. Now first thing that wasn't obvious/bugged me was how the item selection buttons REALLY seem to blend into the world, and at first I was trying to understand why they did nothing.
Second issue, is you can place things, when clicking on tool buttons and play button. Also when I pick a splitter, I can only place one, after which the selection seems to reset, which is annoying.
Lastly, but not least, I got stuck on level 2. I think I built what the game wants, but it just doesn't want to accept it. I think you really need is some kind of visual verification screen like there is in many Zachtronics games.
Yeah, I agree that communication with the player is not one of the game's strengths, and the building mechanics are very, very barebones as-is, which are both things I would've improved if I had more time and will improve on if/when I update the game. I struggled to figure out a way to make the game approachable for people who have no idea how music works, but still challenging for experienced composers and musicians, which led to some people finding the game impossible and some people finding it becoming stale, which could probably honestly just be fixed by some kind of optional tutorial. Thanks for the feedback!
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