this is just so chilled and wonderful, wow. can't wait for more
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Thanks! If you sign up to be a playtester you can try 9 levels right away~ Here's the sign up form there's only a couple of play test keys left.
Hi, thanks for letting me know~
Could you let me know a couple of things to try and find what the problem is?
1. What browser are you using?
2. Does the game crash or just look strange?
3. At what point does it happen, when you complete level 2 or some other time?
I'm not sure I'll be able to fix it, because it looks more like a rendering/unity webplayer problem. But maybe I'll be able to find out why it's happening.
Thanks~
Hi, thanks for letting me know~ Yes, the game doesn't work with AZERTY keyboards properly yet. For now, the best way to get it to work is to add the QWERTY keyboard mapping and switch to that for the game. (here's instructions on that). I'm planning to make the keys remappable in the future, but that'll still take some time.
Hi, thanks for asking! So for making the beats I usually use the default instruments in garageband. I also used the drum samples linked in this video:
I use the izotope vinyl plugin on some of the electric piano + guitar sounds to give it a lo-fi feel. I once wrote a long reply on how I think people can get started making lo-fi beats in general. If you're interested you can read that here! I think I'll expand on that and turn it into a longer devlog at some point.
Hi, thank you! :) There will be more levels, the plan is to release a full paid version of the game with ~15/20 levels by the end of this year (if everything goes to plan). I have 9 levels completed so far.
You can sign up to be a playtester here. The next round of playtesting will probably be in spring when I have a few more levels finished, so if you sign up you'll have the chance to try out the new levels then.
As a big fan and mostly skilled player of rhythm games, and this was a refreshing and enjoyable way to play and enjoy the music! I found myself going back to play instruments again and again. The music, rhythm game gameplay and the way you create music by finding and playing instruments was great! Keep up the great work!
I love the music that you created and I think you're going to succeed as a musician in this game. I like how you can make your own beats and make whatever you decide in your mind and soul and when you get that feeling of calm music, you feel like you in another world or any type of realm you're infilled with music and other stuff like this and I appreciate all of your efforts and work you have done in this game and I would like to see more of your work and keep up the good work. :)
Questions: 1. How many days have you spent working on this game? 2. How did this inspire you to make this game full of music? 3. What is your favorite music you like to listen to all the time and why? (it can be anything honestly) 4. What do you focus on with music? I approve of this comment and I hope you love it! <3
Hi thanks for taking the time to take such an interest in the game :) I’m glad you enjoyed it so much! To answer your questions:
Hope that answers your questions~
Hi thank you! :) And thanks for the feedback. I've heard that a few times, but I'm not sure when that is happening. Could you answer a couple of questions to help me figure out whats going on please?
1. Are you playing on Windows, Mac or in a web browser? If you're playing in a browser, which one?
2. Did the looping problem happen while the game was in the background (i.e. open in another tab while you were doing something else)?
3. Did the problem happen on any specific room or all of them?
4. Does it only happen when you complete all the instruments or is the loop imperfect when only a few instruments are completed too?
Thanks!
Sorry late reply, I'm not that active on Itch
here's my answers:
1.) I play on chrome browser using a windows laptop
2.) It happened while I was playing.
3.) All rooms
4.) while I was still on the phase of finding the instruments, the looping is fine and continuous but after I found them all and I'm listening to the final product, there's a bit of a break in between loops
Thank You and I love your work!!
Ok thank you for getting back to me, that's really helpful!
I will put it on the list of things to look into, I've heard people mention this problem a few times but I haven't managed to see it myself yet. It's a hard problem to find and because of the way I do the looping, I think it might be hard to fix too. Having said that, hopefully your answers will help point me in the right direction! :)
Hi thank you! And thanks for giving a bit of feedback on your experience! :)
I was wondering if I could get a little more information on how it was difficult to get used to? I'm trying to make the start as friendly as possible so any extra information you have on that would be helpful. :)
(Also I guess you might have seen, but you can sign up to be a playtester: here. If you do that, you'll have the chance to get early access to new levels. I'm planning to do the next playtest sometime in late spring).
Really nice! I like the art-style, I like the way you actually build your own tune, I like the combination of searching through the room and find the instruments. Love it :-) It took me just a few moments to understand what I was supposed to do, got the hang of it pretty quickly. Perhaps you can also do stuff with some of the non-instrument things lying around? To add a bonus or something if you use the cat properly? There's so many things you can do with your concept!
Hi swoopie :) Thanks very much! Also thanks for the suggestions~ I kind of like having the non instrument things as fun little bonuses, so I don't know if I'd want to attach them to the gameplay too much. But if you have any other feedback or suggestions please let me know. (There's also a discord, with a feedback channel if that's more convenient: https://discord.gg/7acATbT )
If you're interested in what the next steps for the game are you can see the list at the end of this blog post. Also you might have seen this already but you can sign up to be a playtester to have a chance to see the new levels early: here.
My fav game on itch.io so far! Can someone check my game out? https://captain-i.itch.io/among-you
It's a good game but can you please add the option to change key binds. I have only AZERTY keyboards (I really should get an QWERTY) what make playing the game almost impossible, and I would really like the game if it weren't for the key binds.
EDIT: now i see in the devlog that it's will be implemented. I really should do my research better before I say anything.
Hey, thanks for asking! No don't worry about it, it's good for me to hear when people have the same problem again. It helps me know what priority to put it at. Unfortunately I'm not sure I'll be able to include it in the next update, but definitely the one after that.
In the meantime, if you want to try the game, you could add a QWERTY keyboard layout to windows so you can swap between the AZERTY and QWERTY layouts easily. (Then you'll be able to play with your AZER keys). Here's a link on how to do that.
Let me know if you have any problems with it (or if you use a different OS let me know and I can try and link you how to do that in there).
Hi, thank you! I'm glad you liked the game, thanks for giving your feedback.
I already have around 9 levels total made (I don't want to spoil it but you do leave the room) you can sign up to be a playtester here and you'll have a chance to try the new levels early. I'm planning to do the next playtest some time in late Spring, if everything goes to plan :)
Hi, just wanted to say. Thanks so much for making a video of the game! It's always super cool to see people play it, and it's really helpful for me figuring out which things come across well/badly etc. I'm glad you enjoyed the game so much :)
You might have seen this already but you can sign up to be a playtester here and you'll have the chance to see new levels early when I next do a playtest (the plan is to do another playtest around late spring). However, I do ask playtesters not to stream the game, so maybe you'd prefer to wait for the final release.
Thanks again for making the video~
The look and feel of this game is great. I do, however want to say that this really is not my type of game. I tried it to see if there was something for me but unfortunately it's not my type of game. ALTHOUGH, I do enjoy the way it has been put together. Kudos to the Dev / Team that has put this together. Thanks for the experience.
Hi, sorry to hear that. Could you explain the exact problem are you having please? When I click the link https://discord.gg/7acATbT the invitation still seems to be valid. If you click "Accept Invite" what happens?
There is a way to play the mac version without the itch app :/
Right-click the App > Show Package Contents > Contents > MacOS > Lo-Fi Room file > Click the file 2 times
When you open the Lo-Fi Room file it might give you an error, to fix this:
System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General > Open Anyway
If you see random letters in the file, that's fine. Just close the file. All you have to do is make it an executable. To do this:
Open Terminal
After opening terminal add this code: chmod +x (Lo-Fi Room file) (Before the file and the code add a space. like adding a space every time you separate words in a sentence)
If you see the file looking differently good job 👏. You can open the app!
tl;dr, Just know how to see inside and app and how to open it if apple can't identify any malware. And also know how to make a file into an executable. aka code
I have a video about this:
(the app is not Lo-Fi Room but it's the same procedures.)(NOTE: MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS SEE THE FILE. AKA DON'T CLOSE THE PACKAGE CONTENTS)
Hi, thanks! Thanks for letting me know about the latency problem, can I ask were you playing the downloaded version or the browser version? The download version has some performance problems that should be solved in the next update. I'm working on some other updates to the beatmaking too, so I hope you'll try that out again when that's released.
Hey, thank you! Do you mean the beats you can make in the beatmaking mode or the beats in the 'story' mode?
'Downloading' the beats you make yourself should be coming in the next update (at least for the desktop version), and for the 'story' beats I'm planning to arrange all those beats into short tracks like this one and release that 'album' along with the full game.
Hi, thank you! Maybe you've done this already, but you can sign up to be a playtester here and you'll have a chance to try the new levels early. The plan is to do the next playtest around May :)
Also there is an update to the demo coming in a couple of weeks, but there won't be any new levels in it, just lots of system updates.
Hi, thanks for asking! To clarify, there are 3 levels available to everyone for free. I'm also working to make a paid version of the game with around ~15/20 levels and I've finished about 10 of those levels. I also do closed playtests of the new levels sometimes, (I've only done one so far). I'm planning to do the next one of those in May. You can sign up for the chance to be a playtester here and I'll send out game keys to the people who are selected in May. (I'm not sure I'll be able to do everyone this time, as more people have signed up than I expected), but you'll still have a really high chance of getting a key.
I'll do a few playtests throughout the end of the year as I add new levels and tweak stuff. I'm still kind of focused on improving the core gameplay at the moment so I haven't done many playtests yet, but I'll most likely do a few more in the second half of the year.
Hope that makes sense~
Thank you, because I was really enjoying the game so I wanted to feel it at its full potential and I'll be looking forward for more levels and the full game (I'll definitely pay for it because of the relaxing vibe) so thank you so much love ur work and keep it up and take as much time as needed.
P.S. I've played the demo so much and find it fun still that's how you know it's a good game.
Hey, thanks very much! :)
If you're interested in seeing more of what the game might be like later, you can sign up to be a playtester: here and you'll have the chance to try new levels early. The next playtest is planned for sometime in May. There's also going to be an update coming to the demo in a couple of weeks or so~
Hi Lile!
Thanks so much for making a video on the game! :) I really appreciate it~ It’s always really helpful to see people play through the game and give their thoughts. Also you are definitely not bad at the game!
To give you a bit more detail on what’s happening with the development, I’m planning to release an update to the game in a week or two. That’s mainly focused on the ‘beat making’ mode (the menu is unclear, so you didn’t see that mode in the video), but it also has a few other changes. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the update (particularly the beat making mode)!
Also you can sign up to be a playtester and have the chance to try new levels early here (although I do ask that you don’t stream those), the next playtest is planned for May and there will be ~10 levels total to try in that version. The long term plan is to release a full version as a paid game with around 20 levels. Hope that gives you a better idea of what is going on with the game.
Thanks again for the video~ :)
Really great game! Love the art style and music, they go so well together. Though I would also like it if, at some point, there can be an option to use the arrow keys as well. I'm kinda used to that for rhythm games. (If that's in the download, I apologize, I only had time for the in-browser version ^^; ) Other than that, I can't wait to see where this goes!
Hi! Thanks very much :) I'm glad you enjoyed it~ Thanks for the feedback on the controls! I've had that feedback a few times so I'm planning to release an update to the game in the next week or two which would also let you use the arrow keys. In the future the plan is to add a settings menu to let you set any keys you want to play the game.
Hey, thanks so much for making a video on the game! I really appreciate it! It's always really helpful to see people play the game, and this was the first video I've seen after the new update~
If you're interested, you could sign up to be a playtester here and you'll have the chance to try new levels early. I only ask that you don't upload any footage from that version. I'm planning to run the next playtest in May sometime, there's about 10/11 levels done so far~
Also just to say it's really cool that you're trying to cover smaller games here on itchio :)
Hi, sorry you're having problems playing the game. After clicking an instrument you can play the notes by pressing the correct QWER key when the falling circle is in the middle of the line. If you have a different keyboard layout you can also use the arrow keys to play the notes. Please let me know if you're still having problems
This is the best game, I have played. After all, it really had to take a long time to make, only if you can help me with the mp3 because it always says incorrect input, even tho it's correct, and if you can email me, that I can be a beta tester because I always wanted to know about more songs and your hard work.
Hi that's very kind of you to say, thanks very much! :)
I think you've signed up already to be a tester (I saw a similar name to your itch name on the list anyway), if not you can do that here: here. I haven't sent any keys out yet, they will be sent some time in May.
Thanks for letting me know about the problem you had with the mp3, could you let me know the answer to a few questions to help me understand the problem please?
1. Which operating system are you using?
2. If you are using windows, do you need to run the 32 bit version of the game?
3. Does a pop up appear saying incorrect input? Could you screenshot and send this?
4. Could you let me know some of your computer specs: (CPU + GPU) please?
Thanks~
Hi, Thanks for responding! :)
I didn't know you would respond, but here are the answers!
1. I use Windows 10.
2. Well I tried to do the 32-bit version but still didn't work, or it might be because I'm doing something wrong.
3. Yes it does say incorrect input but I think I'm doing it wrong or I don't understand how it works.
4. CPU: Intel Dual-Core N3050
GPU: Intel(R) HD Graphics
Hi, thanks for getting back to me and sorry for taking some time to respond.
Hmmm it's difficult to figure out what is happening there... Would you mind sending me a screenshot of the error message please? I couldn’t find any error text in the mp3 library with 'incorrect input ' the closest thing I could find to that error message was this, is that what you are talking about?
This screen is for loading beats from other people in the format:
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Also you don't happen to be playing in the browser version? The mp3 button shouldn't be shown in that one at all but I might not have hidden it properly in all situations
Thanks again for the feedback you've given me so far! And I'd be really thankful if you could get back to me with a screenshot :)
Hi thanks very much :)
I'm glad you got into making beats so much! I was hoping that the game could be an introduction to people making beats, I wrote a long post here as a reply once explaining how I make beats if you're interested in getting into it more. I think at some point I'll either try to make a blog post as a guide for getting into making beats, or include it in the game somehow.
Hey thank you, I put this as a reply to your other comment but in case you missed it:
If you signed up to be a playtester, you should have gotten your key for the new levels already (search for "Lo-Fi Room" in your inbox). If you haven't signed up yet, you can do that: here and you'll be able to try a version with 12 levels total. I'm going to send those keys out at the end of this week, so if you haven't already, make sure you sign up before then~
Hi, so as best I know after the game is updated you lose all your local data, so any progress will be lost (at least in the web browser version). You should still be able to unlock play the 3 levels, but you'll have to play through again from the beginning. Let me know if that doesn't work. I'll see if there is a way to update the game in future that won't do that.
here guys copy this
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Guys check this beat out! Give me your opinion on it if you will!
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try it out :)
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Oh sorry to hear that, thanks for letting me know. Could you let me know a couple of things to help me figure out what is happening please?
Thanks
Hmm, actually that shouldn't be the problem, that version should be supported. I'll look into it when I have time (later this week probably), it might be trickier to figure out.
Could you maybe fill in this form please? (You can just put in your email, I haven't set it up properly yet). I haven't got a computer with an environment like yours so it's hard for me to test whether it would work or not, I might need to send a build to you to test if it works. (Hopefully that won't be necessary, but just in case)
Hi, thanks!
So you can actually play with the game with the arrow keys. The game doesn't communicate that very well at the moment, but if you just press the arrow keys the icons will switch to arrows and that should all work fine. I've also (finally) built a settings menu that lets you choose your key bindings so that will be coming in the next update~
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I had a blast
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Check this one out too!
Let's party.
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