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Piano Stairs by robmozart

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made by robmozart for LD26 (COMPO)
Notes are blasted out of a trumpet onto a stair of piano tangents. Ehm, at the end of the stairs there's a little pond thingy. The only thing a player controls is the speed of the notes blasted out of the trumpet.
I tried to keep the ambitions low but I still ran out of time. The gameplay is not finished at all but I'm happy about the layout and visual stuff regarding the theme.

This is my first time doing Ludum Dare. It's actually my first game ever.

The OS X executable should work on 10.7 and 10.8. I'm not sure about 10.6, let me know if you try it.

I'll try to make a Windows port.


Library, tools:

Pyglet
Sublime Text 2
Photoshop
Ableton Live


Timelapse video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6qpnMj-xQ

OS X https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/541595/PianoStairs%20OS%20X.zip
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/541595/pianostairs.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=21059

Ratings

Coolness 47% 1316
Overall 2.14 1307
Audio 2.76 521
Fun 2.00 1238
Graphics 2.61 890
Innovation 2.95 699
Mood 2.41 997
Theme 3.00 1022

Feedback

puttputt
29. Apr 2013 路 18:02 UTC
Interesting concept. Kind of hard to switch between notes.

Worked good on 10.8.
Exclamation Mark
29. Apr 2013 路 18:25 UTC
Hmmmm.... Well I do love the out of the box thinking and creativity, square peg in a round hole and all that but I find this a bit too outlandish?
Merkoth
29. Apr 2013 路 18:27 UTC
Feels a little buggy right now, but it's a nice idea. You should provide Windows binaries too, though.
hnjslater
29. Apr 2013 路 18:31 UTC
Pretty and soundy enough but I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing :-(
馃帳 robmozart
29. Apr 2013 路 21:01 UTC
Thanks for the feedback everybody!

Yes, objective of the game is not well defined, and the collision detection and movement programming is pretty clumsy. I tried to keep the idea and execution simple but I ran out of time before I could make something coherent.
nilstastic
30. Apr 2013 路 10:17 UTC
Pros: Liked the graphics! (beeing old helps) =)
Cons: What was the point of the game? A bit unfinished?
馃帳 robmozart
30. Apr 2013 路 14:12 UTC
nilstastic: A bit unfinished, yes. I ran out of time and was not able to make the gameplay interesting.
boboKat
30. Apr 2013 路 14:58 UTC
Looks cool but I'm not up to the Mac install. Perhaps add a gameplay video?
metadept
30. Apr 2013 路 17:00 UTC
I like the concept, but I kind of wish the notes didn't fire when switching velocity, so that I could play actual tunes. Also it seems like adding some gravity (so the notes curve downward) and/or reversing the incline of the stairs would help make it easier to target individual stairs. Hope you keep developing this idea!
Tanius
30. Apr 2013 路 17:09 UTC
Nice kind of interaction. The only thing i don't get is how you compute the score, or what is the target, but i thing is because is unfinished. It's a nice start, spend more time on it!
cardboard
02. May 2013 路 02:15 UTC
This is actually quite enjoyable. I really like the graphics, and I feel like this could be pretty unique and cool if you finish it up.
TheCze
02. May 2013 路 21:04 UTC
A game play video would be nice if you can't get a port working. The graphics look nice!
Pixelfan Games
03. May 2013 路 23:24 UTC
I love the graphics, good concept i think this game can be more amazing. Good Job!
goerp
04. May 2013 路 18:02 UTC
Clean simple graphics. I would try it if it were for windows as well.
matthias_zarzecki
04. May 2013 路 18:05 UTC
Ahh, the rare Mac-only-game. It's sad not many people will be able to play it :(
tony.pe
04. May 2013 路 18:20 UTC
Looks neat, don't have a Mac. Wish I could play it. :(
DBRalir
04. May 2013 路 19:39 UTC
Seems to work fine on Linux when run from source.
Prelucid
04. May 2013 路 20:42 UTC
Cool idea. Seems like we should have one more button!
Cybearg
05. May 2013 路 04:16 UTC
Looks neat! Wish I could play it.
daniel2357
05. May 2013 路 07:42 UTC
Don't have OS X.
Kvisle
08. May 2013 路 21:48 UTC
Got this to run in Linux without any big problems - just had to install the missing packages. For me, in Ubuntu 13.04 that was python-pyglet and libavbin0 ...

As you say, it's unfinished - but you've got something going on, I like that.
lorancou
18. May 2013 路 18:21 UTC
Don't have a mac :/