Pretty solid even if it gets quite overwhelming at 100+ combos.

I think I may be a dumdum for not figuring out how to use Shift correctly for a good while, so my first tries were filled with dread lol. Even when I figured out how to laser, I really couldn't get above 110+ combos because I've got poor multitasking skills, and this side-dodge trick the heads do at 100+ combos is nasty (for me).

I think the biggest negative is that the moment you lose one of the heads, the game becomes immediately a bit more too easy. And when you're with only 2 or one head left, well the game becomes boring, it's more like the flow of the game grinds to a halt rather than feeling like all the stakes are on that lone head. (Maaaybe, you could counter-act this by having the dark heads still go down all lanes, and if there are heads to shoot in an unattended lane, the nearest friendly head moves to the lane to shoot? I don't know)

What else... Hmmm, good graphics, good sountrack. I featured it in my video about the Game Jam!

https://youtu.be/bFHWSZ1BOBw?t=1345

Fun, until you realize you can just push all the buttons at once and still had the same effect xD.

Nothing to worry about tho, it still was enjoyable, have you tried to make this for two hands?, you know, with keys DF and JK, it could be easier for users.

Simple but entertaining.

I really love all the feedback and animations you’ve got going on here! The way the hit zone explodes when you press a button, the way the cured heads bounce around the bottom of the screen, the lasers.

I share the sentiment of previous commenters that by virtue of having a pulsing circle for a hitzone and music in your game, as a DDR junkie and rhythm game guy, I am let down that your game, isn’t in fact, a rhythm game.

I do have to criticize that the game gets progressively less fun the more mistakes you make, specifically in that with less heads to account for, there’s less lanes to watch out for. The moment I became the least engaged was when I had only one lane to concentrate on (which I was able to laser down without thinking until the ever-increasing head spawn rate put me under). Perhaps a lives system would be a better alternative?

All in all though, great job cranking this out as a solo-dev, couldn’t have been easy!

The visuals are fun and well laid out. The lasers and speed lines looked pretty cool! Overall, even though there's not much going on, the gameplay is presented well and works smoothly.

As the game progressed the enemies started only appearing in the first two columns, then eventually only in the first column, which I suspect is a bug.

I do wish I didn't have to install it. Is there any way to make it just be a standalone so I don't have to install something?

EDIT: Thanks for reactivating the executable! I've played it now, and it's fun! Not the type of game I'm terribly good at, but fun to see made

my 4k stepmania skills are challenged due to the appearance of vaguely looking like ddr but actually being pretty unique (impressive because part of my submission is just ddr clone lol)

i like the laser mechanic and the fact that inputs have a cooldown, just kinda hard to tell when you're getting hit

high score: 6430

After wrestling it free from that false trojan flag, I had fun with this! Aside from the rhythm game inexperience issues, I liked the visuals and effects for things like getting hits/combos. Difficulty felt like it ambled around for awhile before suddenly becoming much more difficult, so maybe making it a more linear curve would have been better? I got a score of 7320, just for the sake of posting.

damn....this game is frustrating, it almost hit some incredibly fun spots, but fails by a little margin, I couldn't use the shift power anytime, and I think the converted enemies could be used as replacement for the lost heads...and the input is too spammable, if the timing was a little more important it could help when you lose your other inputs to keep the game interesting, and not a button-mashing competition against the beatmap...something I think you can try from the start, since you don't seem to lose nothing by missing your timing....but it was certainly a worthwhile experience, nice job!!

This game has a strong sense of rhythm, just a little boring