Punch Beat by AboLD

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made by AboLD for LD34 (JAM)
You are a robotic hero who tries to punch as much as possible. The goal is to get highest combo ever!. The new thing that we experience in this game is that the game has a interactive music pattern.

All assets and code were created during the 72 hour jam.

Design: Abouzar Pourranjbar
Code: Hamidreza Karamian
Art: Morteza Soozban
SFX & Music: Makan Ghayouri

Have Fun!

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.14 682
Audio(Jam) 3.28 378
Fun(Jam) 2.81 787
Graphics(Jam) 4.22 119
Innovation(Jam) 2.61 848
Mood(Jam) 3.12 594
Theme(Jam) 3.78 418

Feedback

Ogniok
15. Dec 2015 路 08:26 UTC
Love art.
ElliotFiske
15. Dec 2015 路 08:33 UTC
Incredible graphics and audio!

The animations are dope and the music and sound are awesome. I love the slowly increasing-complexity backbeat that's happening in the background, although I don't totally understand what it's for.

It would've been awesome to expand on this mechanic somehow, maybe make enemies with more varied attacks or something.

Incredible presentation though!
RhysD
15. Dec 2015 路 08:35 UTC
Cool idea, reminded me of One Finger Death Punch. Sweet art and music. The game got very repetitive after a few rounds, and sometimes the enemies destroyed themselves just as they entered the screen.
SeriousCreeper
15. Dec 2015 路 08:41 UTC
Art and animations are great, background music is good too.

I don't understand the blinking lights and the "dun" sounds that show up after a while, and honestly they kinda became annoying after a while.

Doing a combo was more hurting than helping cause it locks your character up for too long and if not timed well enough, you take a lot of hits (and i find it hard to time it properly).

Other than that i think it's a great game and was fun to beat up robots!
馃帳 AboLD
15. Dec 2015 路 08:50 UTC
Thanks guys, the comments are great and very useful.
馃帳 AboLD
15. Dec 2015 路 08:52 UTC
@SeriousCreeper thanks alot.
about the combo system, we need to change the whole system to polish it.
thelasthour
15. Dec 2015 路 08:56 UTC
This game looks amazing and it's a really great concept that plays out very well. There was a weird "Dun Dun" that kept playing that sounded off. Also the "A" and "D" keys are reverse but arrow keys work fine. Awesome game! Great job!
Bumblepie
15. Dec 2015 路 08:57 UTC
Absolutely gorgeous visual style, and the music was great. I enjoyed the simple gameplay mechanic, which makes good use of the two button theme. I also thought it was a really good idea to put a combo in with timing so that button mashing isn't as effective as carefully timing punches. I had a couple of issues where the detection of punching seemed a bit off, enemies on the other side of the screen would die, or enemies on top of me wouldn't get hit, but this didn't detract too much from the experience. I think a couple of things that would really bring the game to life would be to add the ability to knock robots into each other with the combo punch, and to really nail the explosiveness of the visual and audio effects on successfully landing punches. I'm talking explosions, fire hands, make it really satisfying to land the punches. Overall a really impressive effort. I would probably play this on my phone with a bit of cleaning up.
middenkwaaii
15. Dec 2015 路 09:29 UTC
Great looking game! Maybe make it harder to play and use combo's with left and right cursor together?
vidarn
15. Dec 2015 路 10:00 UTC
Nice game, it looks good and sounds good. Loved the style. :)
馃帳 AboLD
15. Dec 2015 路 10:02 UTC
@middenkwaaii thanks a lot dude. your idea about combo is great, we will try it out
behzad_robot
15. Dec 2015 路 15:46 UTC
The art and sound effects are really good...but the gameplay was not as good ....
lastninja2
16. Dec 2015 路 10:55 UTC
Enjoyed this one ;)
Strike
17. Dec 2015 路 13:05 UTC
Very beautiful game. I see a lot of potential there but i didn't get at all the "beat" feeling suggested by the title. It doesn't seem like the robots pattern follow any kind of rythm given by the music. Or maybe I missed something there. Very good job anyway :)
tobia88
18. Dec 2015 路 10:38 UTC
Just so so , but graphics very good!
Warboys
18. Dec 2015 路 10:54 UTC
Reminds me of One Finger Death Punch (which is always a good thing)! I feel it got quite buggy, as I was punching guys from miles away at times, but then guys were running through me at others. Not sure if it was behaviour bugginess or display errors.

Beautiful art and animation, the music was interesting and got kinda weird (but I guess that's what happens when you have players interacting with it)
shadow64
20. Dec 2015 路 07:13 UTC
I thought the animation was cool and the idea is a lot of fun. Played for a while, but I wasn't sure how the music was sync'ing up or what role it was playing. I think it just makes a more elaborate song as you go, but mine seemed kind of out of sync. Not sure why. In any case, I had fun playing it and I hope you had fun making it! Thanks for sharing and congrats on finishing!!!
tuben999
20. Dec 2015 路 12:05 UTC
Really nice graphics and audio, the animation when the robots hit you could give a bit more impact at first you dont really notice it.
Pat AfterMoon
22. Dec 2015 路 08:23 UTC
Very nice graphics and music, I would have appreciated some more audible sound when I punch, I hit enemies or I'm hit.
BlackBulletIV
22. Dec 2015 路 11:17 UTC
Great visuals and interesting gameplay. I found it difficult to work out the combo moves though.
loxo
22. Dec 2015 路 11:23 UTC
I like the graphics and the audio of the game very much. The game seems a bit too hard to control though. Sometimes the player does something even when I don't press any button anymore. And sometimes enemies just walk through my punches.
Wevel
22. Dec 2015 路 14:09 UTC
Cool game, though it seems like enemies sometimes disappear
Galvesmash
22. Dec 2015 路 19:29 UTC
Awesome graphics! The music was good until one repetitive beat sound started.
Great job guys!
Tapehead
25. Dec 2015 路 08:11 UTC
nice entry!
KaiseanGames
27. Dec 2015 路 16:44 UTC
Nice graphics and music. Really liked it. I just hoped there was more gameplay.

Keep up the good work.
randomhuman
03. Jan 2016 路 13:01 UTC
I love the art, but there is something off about the music I think. I found it hard to distinguish between enemies that needed two hits and those that needed only one hit, so I was always throwing in extra punches (which I assume has combo consequences, though I couldn't really tell what was going on with the combos anyway). I felt like there wasn't enough opportunity to build up cool back and forth combos because the enemies mostly came in one at a time.

Overall, a fun, good-looking game with clear potential to be even better.