Great! I played it again and the echolocation now works! I like the game concept a lot and I think it has a lot of potential! I just think even the very first level was already too hard . I think I got an idea of how the echolocation works, but it was really hard to know which direction I should go that would get me closer to the food. I think it could be a little easier to locate the food and the game could provide more assistance and cues to help master the echolocation, in particular in the intro level.
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I really like the setting it was a well thought out story. I liked the menu's they are easy to navigate using the keyboard. I was not able to play the game though. I have zero ear training and I could not tell the difference between the tones. I asked a friend who is a musician to play on my behalf and here what they said:
- This game has a lot of potential as an educational resource for ear training and introducing the relationships between notes. They thought it was not necessarily a game to play for fun, but that it is a good educational tool.
- They disliked the note sounds were MIDI. They can recognize guitar and piano notes easily but MIDI sounds made the game experience harder. Most musicians are used to notes produced by instruments and have timbre. The use of MIDI sounds made the game not as useful as an educational experience. It would be nice if the player could chose an instrument to produce the notes.
Overall, good job with the game! It has a lot of potential and from the menu navigation to the gameplay and the game setting it seems to me a well rounded game for a jam.
All the keys seemed to be working for me, but 'e'. I'm playing on Firefox, and I could not figure out how the echolocation works. I could not hear anything different to indicate which direction I should go to. I can hear the background noise and the sounds I make when I move. The instructions are clear and the audio with good quality.
It's a blind friendly game as it works with screen readers. I missed it having a sound track to set the ambience a bit. I'm not used to play text-based games so this is a new type of game for me. I was a little frustrated with navigation, as I found it hard to tell where I was and which direction I should go to. I have short memory and many times I had to scroll back to remind myself which direction I had come from so I would not just go back to where I had been. To have a clearer way to indicate from which exit the player came in, and which rooms they already visited would maybe help with navigation. That way would at least make it easier to know if I was just walking in circles. I liked the skills and ability to do upgrades.
It's a good idea and the audio is pretty clear. I also like that is a very light weight game, my machine is very old and there are many games in this jam I cannot play. Things that got in my way of playing: in between games, I could not test the keys to see what sounds they are associated with. The first time I loaded the game I started a playing without testing the keys to learn the sounds and ended up very confused. I had to reload the whole page to be able to test the sounds in the very first game screen. Also, in between games it would be nice if I pressed enter before the voice finished saying my previous score, the audio would cut and then a new game would start. Right now, the audio saying the score keeps playing and the new game starts and the sounds just overlap each other.
Fun game! I liked that there are visual cues and sound cues and that one can assign any key to play the game. It is really accessible to a varied range of players. If you are interesting on expanding the game, it would be nice to add levels with specific goals to achieve each level. In the earlier levels the game would be easier, with simple and short sequence of tones, and later levels the sequences would get longer, more complex, faster. Maybe each round instead of one new tone, two or three would be added at once. Anyway, good job!
p.s I left this comment as a review as well. I'm new here and I did not understand the difference between comments and reviews. I'm still confused about it lols