The Uke Guy by FeniX
Gameplay and controls show - https://youtu.be/xuwcVbgKTHU
The game is about a musician, who sits by the street and plays his instrument.
However, he is not an ordinary musician - he is The Uke Guy! He uses ukulele
as a weapon to fight with sadness!
You have to play a part of someone's happy song before he reaches you to make him happy. If you the sad guy will get to you before, you will lose!
After hearing a part of the song he will run to you and the whole song will be played by your ukulele!
However, he comes in with a sad song playing around him, so it's not easy to break this sad mood. But ukulele can do this!
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Controls:
There are 4 basic sounds, as there are 4 strings in uke. The controls to trigger them:
G string - [Shift]
C string - [Enter]
E string - [Backslash]
A string - [Backspace]
An additional sound:
DRUM - [Ctrl]
For each string there are 5 frets you can push before picking the string - this will
make a different sound! If a Sad Guy wants you to play a sound on a string with
a fret, the number of the fret will be displayed with the string name.
Buttons on your keyboard corresponding frets (sound modifiers) for different strings:
G string - [z], [x], [c], [v], [b]
C string - [a], [s], [d], [f], [g]
E string - [q], [w], [e], [r], [t]
A string - [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
So, to play a sound displayed as G1, that is on first fret of G string, you have to press and hold [z] and then press [Shift]
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You can play around with sounds in the main menu!
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BTW, you can try playing some chords and strumming up and down. To play F chord:
1. press and hold [q]
2. press and hold [x]
3. "strum" down or up by sliding your finger from [Shift] to [Enter] to [Backslash] to [Backspace].
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CHANGELOG:
- 2015-04-25: sad guys are now slower and second song is easier to play
The game is about a musician, who sits by the street and plays his instrument.
However, he is not an ordinary musician - he is The Uke Guy! He uses ukulele
as a weapon to fight with sadness!
You have to play a part of someone's happy song before he reaches you to make him happy. If you the sad guy will get to you before, you will lose!
After hearing a part of the song he will run to you and the whole song will be played by your ukulele!
However, he comes in with a sad song playing around him, so it's not easy to break this sad mood. But ukulele can do this!
===
Controls:
There are 4 basic sounds, as there are 4 strings in uke. The controls to trigger them:
G string - [Shift]
C string - [Enter]
E string - [Backslash]
A string - [Backspace]
An additional sound:
DRUM - [Ctrl]
For each string there are 5 frets you can push before picking the string - this will
make a different sound! If a Sad Guy wants you to play a sound on a string with
a fret, the number of the fret will be displayed with the string name.
Buttons on your keyboard corresponding frets (sound modifiers) for different strings:
G string - [z], [x], [c], [v], [b]
C string - [a], [s], [d], [f], [g]
E string - [q], [w], [e], [r], [t]
A string - [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
So, to play a sound displayed as G1, that is on first fret of G string, you have to press and hold [z] and then press [Shift]
=====
You can play around with sounds in the main menu!
=====
BTW, you can try playing some chords and strumming up and down. To play F chord:
1. press and hold [q]
2. press and hold [x]
3. "strum" down or up by sliding your finger from [Shift] to [Enter] to [Backslash] to [Backspace].
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CHANGELOG:
- 2015-04-25: sad guys are now slower and second song is easier to play
Ratings
| Coolness | 62% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.88 | 794 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.66 | 133 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.72 | 743 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 1.97 | 945 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.60 | 640 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 4.12 | 28 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.70 | 762 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.55 | 377 |
Controls are crazy as I thought it would be funny and challenging to make the game play like real ukulele. ^^ Check out video of me playing around with it - https://youtu.be/xuwcVbgKTHU
BTW, please check the updated version i made for jam. I added more sad guys, added some more sounds and updated graphics to be a bit better. But only a bit. ^^ I hope to continue this project, so maybe in someday I will create something better looking. :D
benjamck, actually I've been thinking about things like that and I will look into it for sure. There are few ideas that come to my mind. One of it is to just allow people to record a "song" and share it somehow, another is to upgrade the game to make it possible for players to create new levels with songs of their own creations. The last one is to make a tool for procedural generation of ukulele songs in given scale with creation of downloadable audio file to use in any other game. :D
@Horsed: I think that before next LD I have to practice drawing. :D
@gnx: Yeah, I know that it's really strongly connected with the layout of your keyboard. I will add possibility to remap the keys so that it would be easier to play if you don't have the same layout as mine.
@MonoS: I'm glad you like the concept anyway. ^^
@Justin Mullin: "Levels" 2 and 3 where a bit harder at the beginning, but I changed the amount of needed sounds to play and the speed of sad guy, so that more people can see all those levels. I will think about some bigger challenges while progressing in the game. :) One thing that comes to my mind is playing chords. :D