Hey man, nice one! I have to echo the others who pointed out that the rhythm of the Spacebar presses doesn't quite seem to match up to the music. I ended up muting the game after awhile to better focus on the pulsing circle. In fact, my eyes were on that little circle in the corner the entire time, which makes me wonder if it wouldn't be better to have that effect happening on the player themselves?

Before I muted it, my main incentive to keep playing was that I hoped the music would burst into some orchestral madness,  maybe with some big bassy drop as you suddenly get swarmed and your burst radius rate increases. If it does develop to that level, I never got far enough, maybe around 300 pts?

I noticed that the controls on the Unity popup mentioned that mouse presses should fire, but pressing the mouse didn't do anything for me. Also, after I died and reset, the white circles that give the powerups appeared only very faintly, almost invisible, which meant that I had to manually reset the game via Alt-F4 after dying.

Overall though, I enjoyed it! I hope this is not a discouraging level of criticism. I only offer it because I think with some polish this game has potential. I'd like to play the next build if you improve upon it after the jam!

This game was great. I liked the idea of it. It was kind of hard to see how the theme connected to this game, but i think i get it now.

Just a few complains: The guitarloop kind of gets repetitive, maybe add like a proper song and let it reset everytime you respawn, cause having it constantly play makes it kind of obnoxious. The movement feels a bit awkard cause i didnt feel like i was moving at all, perhaps adding some shadows like some games do, or some background elements to make the movement feel like movement.

Now, the beats: The feel really off, it was really hard for me to concentrate on getting the beats right cause it was mostly watching the little circle instead of hearing for the actual beats. Try looking at a game like Crypt of the Necrodancer where beats are constant and it is easy to keep track of every beat because they were on sinc. Your game lacks that feeling and its a real shame.

I do see a future to this game as a real fully complete game on steam or the app store. Perhaps a bit of polishing here or there and you will be golden.

Overall, pretty fun game.

The rythm is synced very well to pressing the button, but the sound which is then played is only played after pressing the button which just feels "too late" for me. I have to consciously press late to not hit it too early.

Also I think the music could change more with more difficulty. I think there are additional drums and snares, but the base loop gets abit boring after a while.

Movement also seemed to not affect too much. Mostly I focused on getting the beats correct and just moved randomly until I saw a "white drop". But I just played until score ~60 or ~100 so maybe movement gets more important later on.

But otherwise I like your game and with increased variaty (longer song, more songs, "tapping" not only on main beats but varied with the song, movement mechanic maybe connected to music, maybe level design connected to music?) I would actually like to play it as a "proper game".