RedditLudum Dare 21
August 19th-22nd 2011 :: Theme: Escape
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Lost Psyche - neilogd - 48 Hour Competition Entry
WARNING: LOTS OF COLOURS AND FLASHING LIGHTS.
Let me take the time to invite you to escape reality for a while, sit back, be mesmerised, and allow you to guide the music along it's path to creation - with visuals intensifying to match. My experiment for this LD was Procedural Music.
To guide the music, you must avoid the red blobs, but attempt to collect the blue and green blobs. One will increase the chord complexity, and the other the progression complexity.
Controls are WASD to move, Esc will exit, and F1 will reset the game.
This is my second entry using my own engine, Psybrus. All engine code used is based on what was located at https://github.com/neilogd/Psybrus at the start of LD.
All game code is written in GameMonkey (http://www.somedude.net/gamemonkey/). See the .gm files in "Dist" for all the game code. For some idiotic reason I decided to lump everything very hackly into "game.gm". There you will find some horrific game code, along with the music generator. Hopefully I will get the time to clean this up, and improve upon it as there are so many avenues of music generation I wanted to explore, but didn't have the time to :(
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Ratings
| #19 | Audio | 3.85 |
| #63 | Innovation | 3.62 |
| #65 | Community | 3.33 |
| #69 | Graphics | 3.62 |
| #246 | Coolness | 2% |
| #318 | Overall | 2.67 |
| #374 | Humor | 1.38 |
| #380 | Fun | 2.15 |
| #477 | Theme | 1.85 |
Comments
I love procedural audio generation, this was quite a cool idea. I agree with the previous poster, it was very difficult to judge where I was at. Eventually I figured out that there was a crosshair, but even with that everything moved too quickly to really get into the groove.
Great concept, and good execution on the music generation!
I was balancing this game to make it playable with pretty heavy sleep deprivation...and it became quite easy to me. I guess that's what I get for spending the last couple of hours tweaking gameplay in the competition :( Totally needs some improving, and possibly slowing down the graphics a touch to give you more time to respond.
Really like that you're experimenting with procedural music, and the visuals are totally trippy (in a good jeff minter esq way). however, i had real trouble judging the note directions which kind of got in the way of my enjoyment of the game.
The triangle doesn't centre on the screen and it's hard to judge depth. A good idea, but needs some touching up.
Cool stuff! Looks like Audiosurf! It's kind of hard tho and needs a seizure warning :P
Trippy, but hard to play. Kind of stretching the theme a bit aren't ya? ;)
Primitive and abstract. I liked it but most people would expect more. I know a VJ Toy when I see one! Nice effort. :-)
reminded me of Rez and Child of Eden. Very cool, but goes very fast.
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I like the idea and the music, but due to the 2d objects in 3d space thing going on it's really hard to accurately judge depth and to hit the right colors for that reason. Still, cool concept for 48 hours.