The pixel art of this game is really amazing! Congratulations

I Really like this game, awesome sound, awesome pixel art, nice entry.

Amazing game! I didn't have time to see the zombies because I was very concentrated in the coins !

Truly beautiful game. Sound design, while not my type of music, pretty faultless. Controls were not tactile enough. Despite this it was fun to play. Good Luck!

This game made me feel like a loser. :(

Incredible stuff, this game is good overall! Music - awesome, graphics - brilliant, gameplay - very fun.

Excellent work boys, you are the best.

@all thanks a lot for your kind word !
@eshford don't say that your game is wonderful and your posts were inspiring !

Best pixel art I have seen in a while! Music too! <3

Man, that was a blast. Everything was great with one exception, the music overpowered the sound of the audio feedback of the controls, making it harder for me to sync up went to time my button presses. The sound effects were at a decent volume, but the music was a bit too loud.

Really really solid other wise, awesome job!

This is awesome, this the first time my kid has smiled watching me play a game. Pretty Rad!

My only issue is that I couldn't pay attention to the sweet graphics -- I was concentrating on timing the notes! :) Too awesome!

This game was awesome! The art and music kicked ass. The idea was very unique and well executed. I would've like to see a difference between using the left and right arrows. Also, the game didn't punish me for just spamming the buttons. I was able to beat lv 3 without playing the rhythm part of your game.

awesome, really love it.
the beat/note animation when successfully pressed is a bit distracting the next note

Really, really hard, but beautiful :) ! (And it's me who say that :D). The music is browesome :D ! Good job men :)

Awesome!!! whoohoo

I love the art, the music and the mood, but I didn't feel a real synchronization between the music and the gameplay. And it's too bad that the 2 buttons aren't needed. One can play with only one button and finish the game anyway, so the theme is not really respected

I couldn't run it. Chrome would not run it, nor IE 11. I downloaded the windows version but couldn't unpack it. Once I found a way, I had no application to run the flash package.

It doesn't seem to work on the developer's website.

Shame, I was looking forward to it :(

@Radstar the dots are synched to the kick drums hit. If the sync is off, it's probably a soundcard buffer related problem. Some soundcards are faster than others :P
Also, I seriously doubt you passed the 3rd level with only one button :)

Very good entry! Fuuuuuuuuun! Good work guys!

Great, but too bad the Left/Right gameplay is not that much important.

@RadStar Thanks for the feedback !
- Regarding sync, we had to make some choices and focus and we will add a tuning widget be cause just like rock band of guitar hero, some people have very different timing sync setup
2- regarding buttons, I cannot finish level with only one button, maybe if I perfect the whole track but I cannot manage it so maybe you were very very lucky !
3- For us you really need the two buttons and the mass of zombies is growing that's why how we fit the theme and we really crafted the game based upon the theme ( for once )...
At some point we had to decide between a demanding game and one that was more rewarding and less hard hence some fuzzy design choices ;)

I hope you enjoyed the game still ^^

@roninfight the .air package is self extractable, i will upload exe version asap.

I'm writing another comment because I was able to play the web version. I left it open in the background and it finished to load after 20 minutes or so.

The game is a metric ton of fun. It's amazing. Beautiful art, incredible tunes that are very well timed in the gameplay.
I found it get really hard on the 4th level, but one of the most fun game I have played in LD34.

Congratulations! Amazing product.

@roninfight Uploaded the exe anyway which is much more enjoyable ( 60FPS and color correction shaders )

I'll definitely get it since I'm expecting to replay it to try to beat it. Thanks!

Best game so far!

Really innovative, and very nice art style. Nicely done. :)

That was fantastic! I loved everything about it, the art, music, gameplay. Just amazing work! 5/5

I love this game so much ! It's just a perfect rythm game idea & i want a "big game" of this !

Great music! Awesome art! Great vibe! Woo!

Very solid game. Very good job with audio and mood :)

Well, that's impressive ! Rock on guys !

For some reason it didn't scale properly to my screen.. so I could only see half the game D: But it was really great still! I love the art and the concept.

Congratulations! I really liked the game, and the songs on it!!!! Congrats!

Amazing art, excellent sound, fun game. It's a very cool, well polished package. Was impossible to look at any of the zombies though, especially later on when there were a lot of coins flying at my way. All in all a very solid entry.

Basically top marks. This is quality. Love it.

Seriously awesome game.

Great game!
I believe that if the notes had been in the air or somehow come interacting in the ground with the animations so would be easier to pay attention to the player animations and also the challenge of rhythm.

Music, Graphics, gameplay, everything done in this was amazingly done!

Amazing pixel art and sound design for this rhythm/shooting game mashup thingie! Congrats, really enjoyed the game.

Amazing muzic and art. Impressive entry! \m/

So nice heavy metal pixel art and game! Thanks a lot! (Just a bit annoying to not be able to focus on the scene and on the fret.) Congrats!

Best entry I've seen so far. Literally nothing to criticize, 5/5 through and through.

"1, 4, 7, 9!" Hilarious. Beautiful entry. Game play was a little standard but the polish is phenomenal. Really well done!

Wow, this is difficult.

Awesome game. Amazing art and the music was pretty solid overall. Had a tonne of fun with it.

The music is just perfect I think I fell in love with it. And the graphics are also really good and very fluid.
Maybe the only thing I would change is that in my opinion would be better to separate both buttons in two separate rythm lines.
Congrats guys

Great sound athmosphere and graphics!

That was really hardcore! Levels got harder but still managed to beat all three levels! Really fun and good looking game, even on web!

Awesome game I love the art! needs easier songs though or needs to be more obvious which drum beats I'm supposed to be hitting

Totally awesome :D
Very well done!

That was Awesome !! I've actually worked with Elmobo before, so I knew the music was gonna be great. I guess all I can say is that it was too short. Please continue developing this !

Phenomenal art and sound production, this shit is like full retail game quality. I'm like jaw-droppingly impressed.

Problems?

There wasn't much gameplay. It's not really a shoot 'em up because you're not aiming or moving or shooting. As a rhythm action game it's a little too simplistic.

Well level 3 was just dreadful, the song and the note chart didn't seem to match half the time. It felt like some tech metal off-beat stuff that just didn't really vibe with me.

The very long screen resolution was also killing my eyes, I've played tons of rhythm action games before but none of them gave me eye strain and a headache as bad as this one. Because there's only one button, this also helps contribute to it and general readability issues (i.e. Track 3).

Sorry if I come across as negative, it's an amazing piece of work and therefore I feel it's more important to be honest and nit-picky. With games of this graphical quality, I find many reviewers have rose-tinted glasses on.

Awesome art and music. Great atmosphere. 4th level is madness!

I loved the whole game. Congrats! The only issue was that music was not in sync for me.

RIP anybody else's chances of winning first place

Lovely game! The graphics are great and so is the music. It is pretty hard to play though cause you have your eyes on one side to catch the sphere, and on the other you need to look where to shoot, so ti can be quite distressing.

Ohhh man. This is probably one of the best uses of a recorded guitar for a LD game I've seen in a long time. Super cool!

First time I've given five stars for fun in a long time!

I love the art style and music. Tough I did not understood how choosing different guns impact the gameplay...

Real polish on this, not really my kind of game and once I got past the first level it was pretty difficult to know when to play so I found myself just hitting notes at random, but nice entry!

Such a well-polished game overall! I found it hard to listen to the music though, so simple volume sliders would be great :)

The pixel art and the sounds is amazing, but you have to stop playing to look at the details, but still awesome game!

Really good , The music and the art is wonderful, I stared for a while at it to learn from the details :)

the game is very polished and features a high quality content.
i've found sound "awesome" a bit annoying and most of the time i didn't care about if i press buttons at the right moment or not

Thanks all ! We'll try to adress the readability by maybe reversing the note line and timing by less aggressive level design. We were thinking of moving the car sieways as you hit one button or another and not just randomly, that would effectively enforce the two button need.

Post ludum version will be on track after sleeeeee....ZzzzZZz

Like the loud voice said most of time : AWESOME !!!
Best LD34 game I played for now ! Thank you for that pure moment ! :D

I loved the pixel art and the music!

That was ridiculously awesome!!!!!

Let me borrow the last poster's words: this game is ridiculously awesome! I'm a metal fan and this resonates with me a lot. The songs as amazing, really high quality metal... the riff of the first level is looping in my mind at this moment =)! Have you composed them all in these 3 days only? That'd be quite a feat! I was gonna say "hey, this isn't black metal", but then I got to the last level hehe! Graphics were very good, too, on par with the superb sound work.
Gameplay, though, is where I think your game was a bit flawed. Level 1 had the perfect difficulty in my opinion, where I could keep a rhythm while enjoying the music and the graphics... but even then the left and right shots didn't seem to make any difference - I could beat the whole level by pressing just one of them, and sometimes I wasn't able to hit a zombie with any of them. From level 2 on things just got exponentially too chaotic for me and I smashed the keys hoping for the best, while not being able to pay much attention to the music - which was a sin! (no, I'm not very good at playing Guitar Hero on hard in case you are wondering hehe).

This is very cool with amazing quality! Well done!

@Big Green Pillow ft Mgaia : You are very very true pal, for some reasons we had to chose between fun and precision but we *will* improve. We'll detail this in the post mortem.

Thanks everyone with criticism, this is very endearing to us, we know the *real value and effort* that friendly criticism takes, so again Thanks Thanks!

Very liked music and art!

Let me quote fom the game. Perfect,awesome!)
One of the best games I've rated so far, 5/5

Wow that was awesome! Amazing job guys.

You rock guys!!!

one of the best games - great job

This game is freaking "AWESOME". Holy mother of god I would never suspect that in 72 hours you can do something like that. Please do it on mobile and muuuuch longer so I could play it on boring lectures, on ride home, while playing other games, showering, making breakfast, dinner, talking to family and other things that would take too much space to talk about.

This game deserve to be in top five at least for audio, fun and overall :D

This game is fucking awesome. I'm fucking dropping everything and pursuing career of metal player ;)

Everything is great about it.

Only thing is, I didn't understood tutorial and at first I thought I have to hit perfectly at the vertical hole. After I got it it was pure rocking fun!!!

You rock, guys

Awesome! Marvelous! Perfect!

Wow! The pixel art is soo good. Love the simplicity of the controls and the audio. I think the "awesome" "good" "perfect" voice got a little repetitive. Maybe if he only spoke when you got an Awesome or something. Great work!

This game is amazing, had so much fun playing it (especially last level). Very well done !

Guys! Nice work! The best game i ve seem in this ludum for while! I loved the idea to put apocalypse zumbie and rock band!

Awesome entry!

This is great. Though the button presses could align with music better. Could have had more strategy than pressing left and right in turns. (enemies being much faster but bit fewer.)

Gorgeous. Gorgeous pixel art and matching art with music.

When I reached the second level I died laughing at the blips that came zooming by the screen and I just started bashing buttons. I didn't succeed in surviving, which indicates to me that skill is involved. And that I don't have that particular skill :).

Well done!

That was great! Your UI did a good job at making the game feel familiar and explaining what to do! Good job!

Heavy metal, zombies, post-apo... Awesome!
Great job!

an amazingly polished game with an awesome concept!

Metal as fuck! Probably got a winner here.

One of my best so far!

What a great game. The audio, graphics works well together. Well freakin done

Really great and solid entry, super polished visuals and awesome music, i wish there was a hard mode and blastbeats !

Perfect pixel art and music :) I could play only web build (on Mac) and the music wasn't 100% synchronised with graphics, but it was fun anyway. Awesome job.

Wooow... It's amazing that you made this in just this jam ! :D nice nice nice :)

Pixel art hitted a homerun! The soundtrack was amazing and game itself blew my mind.

Had lots of fun playing this, awesome music! Great pixel art as well. Good job guys :)

OMG.. zombies + rock & roll is always a good combination. The game is very difficult and I always get killed from the running zombie regardless of getting the rhythm ok.

One other thing, the theme should be two button control but left and right does the same thing, so you have missed the theme there. :(

Great visuals and sound but I'm always trash at these rhythm games. Nice work!

Love it, difficulty does spike past level 1.

Wow, great game!

Very Nice Game !

Gorgeous game, super well-polished :)

The only criticism I can find to make really is that it's quite hard to enjoy the beautiful art while looking at the bottom bar in order to time your shots. I had some trouble switching between the two views to fire the right gun at the right time. But then I'm not a musician, so maybe that's just me having no sense of rhythm :P

Great job anyway, congratulations!

Really good art and music. Pity the screen is so very divided and keeps the nicest looking bits outside of the interesting part gameplay-wise.

As for the gameplay, it's very fun to play but feels a bit empty. There's not much in choosing left or right each beat, and there's no punishment for pressing a button out of time, meaning you can just keep pressing left and right all the time.

all in all, good job!

@Rodaja actually the punishment is loosing combo, hence loosing gun level hence lowering DPS but it's not obvious...^^

Simply Amazing

AWESOME

Just - wow! Music and graphics was great. Felt really polished. Also, great that it is written in Haxe ;D

Great music, nice art and overall a fun game. But it would have been nice if my hits/misses would affect the music.

A little hectic along with some am I even doing this right? Still. This is absolutely FANTASTIC!

Unfortunately the windows version started with a huge window size and resizing it wouldn't help so I sadly had to play the laggy web version. Despite the lag the game is awesomely polished, the graphcis are amazing, the music is fucking epic, pardon my french here and it feels really great to play. I think this is one of the entries that deserves the most to win this edition of LD.

I absolutely loved this game.

The pixel-art was pretty nice although I was mostly distracted by the very frantic double-tapping of the screen, so I didn't fully take it in, but it was definitely nice.

Audio was brilliant and really worked well with the gameplay and it was really nice to start of with more slower beat metal to just being thrown straight into a death metal-drum solo.

The gameplay itself was also a very creative twist and it was nice to see somebody doing something else with the Guitar Hero/ Rock Band-concept than just being a dance-game/rythm-game. It was really challenging very frantic and even now I just stopped playing 'cause my fingers were throbbing like hell :).

All, in all; awesome! Well done guys! ^_^

Nice entry! I feel like there's a reason guitar hero etc have the frets go from front to back, since jarring happens or it joes goes to fast. Couldn't really get into the rhytm that way :), was pretty hard.

This game rocks! The art is awesome and the music is great, if I had any criticism it would be that it seemed a little easy since there was really no punishment for missing, so it was kinda just mashing left/right when a stream of beats came along, but it was still very fun! One of the best games I've played so far, and very polished!

Awesome! Cool pixels graphics and anims, good audio, nice concept! The only "little" problem is that you can finish a level by spamming the left and right triggers... But maybe that's only for the the 3 first levels? Anyways, Killer game! (haha!)

The graphics and music are just super dope. As others mentioned it's a pity I've never had time to enjoy animations because concentrated too much on beat matching. It can in fact be a nice shoot-dem-zombies game.

Graphics and music were supremely polished! My only problem was that I couldn't look at all of the amazing art during gameplay, because I had to look at the notes at the bottom. If you were to take this further, I would love a bonus level that somehow lets you interact with more of the art without having to only focus on the notes... but then of course, get back to the notes. Also, I feel like I want a screenshot of this game plastered on a shirt!

Great pixel art, I wish there was more to the zombie gameplay, at the moment it's like every rhythm game but with one key only. Well presented though!

This is one of the most inspiring ld entries I have ever seen.

Great sound and graphics. Really hilarious aesthetic - I like it.

The wide window resolution was an odd choice - it didn't play nice with my 1680x1050 monitor, but thankfully nothing needed for gameplay was cut off. Getting resolution-independence right can be a pain within the constraints of Ludum Dare, but it would go a long way to add some more polish to an already great entry.

Great job!

5/5 for all. Great work, dudes!!!!

Really cool rhythm game! I'm a bit frustrated because I'm focusing too much on the rhythm bar and I cannot watch what's happening with the zombies. I'd love to have two different actions depending on which button I use to trigger the note ^^

Amazing entry! The art is super polished, just a shame I could not enjoy it, as I was too busy concentrating on hitting the notes!

My fingers are hurting!
Fun game! Everything, from sound, graphics to game play is great, well done! I enjoyed it.

very solid game, super complete and well made.

So rad guys, well done :D

A pleasure for eyes and ears!
The best pixel-art entry so far.

Awesome! Headbanging music and visuals.

The controls and feedback aren't as "snappy" as I'd want a rhythm game to be, and it seems like the timing for each note has been made to be pretty forgiving to compensate.

In later levels I ended up just bashing left and right on the keyboard... which funnily enough kind of fits the mood of the game. :P

Amazing art and sound design. My hand hurts a bit from all the button mashing, which is a good thing despite it sounds the opposite :D

Brilliant entry.

Wow! So damn good. The visuals and audio are absolutely amazing!

Wee! Very nice and fun entry.

\m/ excellent choice of music, amazing graphics, great job!

I'm so stoked right now!

This is wonderful. It's deceptively hard. I want to try it with a gamepad.

Really well polished game!

Almost everything is perfect into this game!

The only critic I have, is that you may make a better use of the 2 buttons, maybe the the yellow buttons are much faster and it should be one kind for each different button (left/right) and pressing both activate the SPECIAL!

Anyway, congratulations!

for sure this game is going to earn some medal!

Score: 18124
That. Was absolutely. Amazeballs.

Kool Musik and Art!

Love the graphics! Should definitely be top 25 for graphics. Liked the music, and zombies! So hard but so fun. I've always loved rhythm games anyway. Well done guys! c:

You rock, guys!

Awesome! really cool music and satisfying game play :D good work

I cannot start the game. There's a title screen saying "Click to Start" but it doesn't respond to a click. I tried various places on the screen and a few different keys, with no luck.

Everything here feels really good.

Only thing is that the game is so intense that I miss a lot of the great stuff happening on top of the music bar :D

Amazing stuff!

Very nice. Although the last level felt a little bit too button mashery. I guess I could see it being a full two-button rhythm game, with holds and doubles and such?

Amazing work. Brilliantly done. Only problem being I couldn't focus on the zombies and the graphics while gameplay ;) ... Nicely done ..

Amazing graphics and music! Though the gameplay needs more depth, the polish alone makes this a fun experience. I just wish I could take my eyes away from the notes bar to watch the zombie killing!

cool concept and game! keep it up!

Awesome game and music. We enjoyed a lot this game. I just sorry that the player can't enjoy of the zombies because of the drums (the player is too much focused on it) but still a very good game. Excellent.

The pixel art is AMAZING, but the audio work on this one is just, WHOA! FREAKING AWESOME!

You nailed both of them, made an amazing rendition of the theme and, more important than anything, you made it fun, with an amazing return factor!

Good job! Great game!

yuigoto brought me here and I must say THANK YOU for this great suggestion! I can't say more than awesome for three days!

I don't see having two buttons being that useful...other than that, awesome game, very impressive!

Ridiculously fun and addictive. I actually like how not only you need to keep an eye on the note chart, you also need to keep an eye on the action above so you know which guns to fire.

The visuals and audio are stunning, well done. However, the gameplay I found to just be a bit of a button mash. Is there any penalty to missing the beats? I just watched the zombies and hammered left and right as necessary. Still fun to play.

Awesome job! Great presentation! Gameplay is a bit shallow maybe, but the visuals and sound make up for it a lot. Love the Machinae Supremacy style soundtrack.

Awesome!

Amazing graphics and music! Gameplay is fun as well!

The art is amazing, really everything is amazing!

Awesome game! Unfortunately, at least on the flash version, the button presses weren't synced the the music quite right. I had to push the button half a second before the beat, which really took me out of the game. Great work overall though.

Thanks, I had a blast, that game was very fun to play and got a great musical score.

I finally lost, but without really understanding why. ore specifically, I did not feel like pressing keys out of timing really penalized me. Something with guns power, perhaps? Was that the lower-right hud counter?

Graphics and audio are beyond comprehension, wow. Incredibly solid entry - the whole feel of it is spot on.

A game like this should not lag this much on web - you can do a surprising amount with javascript at a solid 60 fps, so I'm not sure how your game is struggling here.

It was incredibly hard to parse the rhythm and follow it on both web and desktop, due to an unusually high input delay and maybe the format the notes were presented in. Thankfully, the game was rather forgiving, so it just let me spam the buttons at the right speed, and I had to go by vision instead of sound to get perfects..

Despite the technical issues, this is a real achievement for 72 hours. I especially love the death metal track. Amazing work!

Easily the most metal thing I have experienced in all of Ludum Dare. Extremely detailed pixel art, fantastic music and well polished all around. Possibly the only game where I can hear chip, metal and death growls within the same song!

There was some amount of input lag on the Windows version, and I wasn't too comfortable installing anything but it was a better experience than the Web version.

Fantastic effort, probably one of my favourites so far. Keep up the good work! :D

@RHY3756547 On my pc, it runs at steady 60fps but since it's in flash and in 72h i cannot do the mandatory optimisations that would fit every pc. The sould delay varies from PC to PC according to your sound system and cpu performances, we will definetely improve this over time.

Thanks for the feedbacks :)

Hey all! We made a post jam version with tons of imrprovements! Now available on itch.io!

Very good - pity nothing stops me from just pressing left/right all the time (other than scoring). Every missed button could speed the zombies up or slow the car down...

@agilejoshua We had what you suggest! As we explained, the game was becoming too hard and complex to balance so we chose raw fun instead :)

Thanks for playing, we'll find a solution for the followup!

What's to say? This game is fucking awesome in every way. Great job guys.

Now I can die...

Unfortunately the game is not in sync with the music on my computer, but I can see that this is really a great game. Everything is made perfectly. Wonderful !

Really solid rhythm game! At first I thought I didn't really need to use both buttons, but level two destroyed me. Once I started using both buttons it felt very good and I was able to complete the game. Awesome work, it looks and sounds amazing!

Awesome concept, mood and art. But felt a bit like a button-masher in the end. Other than that, really cool!

Lovely graphics, amazing game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/DUttdjt5uB4