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Ethereal Tale by Optimans

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made by Optimans for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

The heroes of this story are frail, but still living. Keep them alive following the rhythm of their hearts! Dance with their unique personalities to lead them back in this realm!

HOW TO PLAY: * Blue notes: mouse over the lane * Left Arrow: mouse over the lane and press A * Right Arrow: mouse over the lane and press D * Menu navigation: WASD or Arrows, Space or Enter to select the song

The color bar at the bottom is your score: the brighter the better! Don't fall under 30 BPM or your lose the connection with your hero

If you feel the music is too off, I'm sorry, I was not able to prepare an adjustment tool in time...

CREDITS * Optimans: Code and Artwork * TrpM: Sound

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Post Mortem: added calibration tool to adjust sound delay

Youtube https://optimans.itch.io/ethereal-tale
Youtube https://optimans.itch.io/ethereal-tale
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ethereal-tale

Ratings

Overall 1580th 3.34⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1603th 3.135⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 2086th 2.808⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 2295th 2.92⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1818th 3.139⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 311th 3.84⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1590th 3.173⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 31🗨️

Feedback

antomatti
21. Apr 2020 · 07:31 UTC
Amazing game! I loved the music and the graphic. It is pretty challenging, especially the third level. Great job!
megamasterx
21. Apr 2020 · 14:19 UTC
Always fun to see the interpretation of the theme. As a sucker of rhythm games I actually REALLY enjoyed this entry. Well done!
DangerBlack
21. Apr 2020 · 14:51 UTC
Well I'm bad at game with music, but with this I fail too many times. I enjoy the music and also the idea behind the game. It's remind me a game I loved Audiosurf, still a graphic enhancement needed
Vini Explorer
21. Apr 2020 · 16:25 UTC
I was really bad at this game, but I liked the concept and the music was pretty good! Nice!
Terrykk
21. Apr 2020 · 16:31 UTC
good concept and music but can't really play this game, because music is too off as you wrote
dodormeur
21. Apr 2020 · 16:35 UTC
Wow, the game is not easy ^^
The graphics are cool and the music is really nice, but I didn't get to hear much of it since I suck :/
Also, if you don't use the key "q", you can map it to left so that azerty keyboards don't have to change layout ;)
Mopkoo
21. Apr 2020 · 17:08 UTC
very cool rhythm game, i don't often play games like this but this was very cool ! And the minimalists graphics are nice
Yigit Doruk
21. Apr 2020 · 20:03 UTC
Nice interpretation for this theme! As a fan of rythm games, I really like the idea and gameplay. We have similar rythm/music based game called "Rock'em All", so I would be so happy for your feedback if you play it! Good job!
-banzi
22. Apr 2020 · 17:46 UTC
Nice game! I felt a bit overwhelmed at start as there was just too much going on, but later it got better as I learned to press a/d at the right time (there I feel like the window for hitting them was too short). Sadly I didn't hear any music in my windosw build (so I am not rating that). Good job!
🎤 Optimans
22. Apr 2020 · 17:59 UTC
@banzi really weird... don't know what could be the reason :( I'm sorry
Doot
22. Apr 2020 · 18:02 UTC
Great job on this game!

I really loved the music (especially the second one), and the visual are clear. I would have loved more feedback when missing, especially on the third song where I couldn't hear the audio feedback because of the song.
I also felt that the timing where pretty hard at first but then got used to them!

Thank you for the game!
Morriekken
23. Apr 2020 · 18:39 UTC
I really like it. I used to play guitar hero with my Fender and I think this game accommodates the similar concept with more fun (I didn't enjoy guitar hero that much). Even thou the game is hard, I felt very relaxed.

Some challenges I had:
- Feedback if I hit a note on right time wasn't very clear for me, I would expect the note to play louder if I get it right
- I struggled to hit arrows right on time a lot
- No quit button/keypress from the game
🎤 Optimans
23. Apr 2020 · 19:06 UTC
@morriekken yes, in a fullscreen game a quit button is needed. Just got used stopping it from the engine :sweat_smile:
cephalo
23. Apr 2020 · 22:10 UTC
The music is beautiful. Seriously. Great job TrpM!
Great game too!
No Grapes Games
30. Apr 2020 · 02:50 UTC
The game looked good and the music was nice. I wasn't really a fan of the controls because the arrow notes were hard to hit correctly. I appreciated the sound it made to let the player know the note was missed, but having a success indicator would have been great. Something like the note flashes or explodes in a pleasant way. Nice entry.
zoarfy
10. May 2020 · 17:31 UTC
Awesome job! I feel like you dont often see rhythm games during a jam and I feel like that is because they are hard to do but you did a great job. I really liked the idea of mousing over sections and then using key inputs. It took the first song to really get a hang of it but the escalation of diffculty across the three was really well done. Good music too! The theme was a bit light but thats alright. Congrats!