The Show Must Go On! 🥁 by MEGA Marlon

It's the biannual blob ball band and you've been assigned the role of blob-conductor!
Every 10 seconds a new member of the blob band will join the march and it's your job to keep that blob on beat.

🥁- Set the beat down with the drummer.
🎺- Control the other instruments and match the timing of the beat.
🎸- The better your timing, the better the grade you receive.
🎷- Travel the world and keep your 10-second rhythms in sync!
Controls:
A - Slow the Current Blob Down ⬅️
D - Catch up to the Drummer➡️
W/S - Move Up and Down
🎵 [For the best experience, sound is encouraged.] 🎵

[EDIT: 10/4/2022] -- Uploaded HTML5 build of the game for accessibility.
| Link | https://leefu.itch.io/the-show-must-go-on |
| Link | https://leefu.itch.io/the-show-must-go-on |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/the-show-must-go-on |
Ratings
| Overall | 819th | 3.275⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 771th | 3.175⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 209th | 3.775⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1019th | 3.105⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 550th | 3.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 169th | 3.875⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 445th | 3.083⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 629th | 3.395⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
I didn't really understand what you had to do as a player until the later levels (I'm not actually sure I fully understood it at the end either). The first two levels felt like they played themselves, I didn't really have to do anything. Since there were no obstacles almost it was easy just to keep walking to the beat.
Once there were more obstacles I kinda understood that you had to get your blobs out of the way when they weren't needed (I think?) and that was quite challenging, in a way trying to plan out the movement of the first few instruments to maximize your chance of being able to follow the drummer.
Overall I think it has a lot of potential, nice job!
I'm not sure I understood the mechanic completely. If I slowed down to get more people through a gap, it didn't seem like I had enough time to speed back up to make it back in tempo. But maybe I was just bad at it :)
Also, I replayed the first level at the beginning, but after that I was always unlocking two levels ahead (for example, after the 2nd playthrough of level 1, it unlocked level 3!).