Show HN: Settling the Score – A point-and-click adventure rhythm game (easel.games)

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Tried on iOS Safari. Didn’t hear the guitar. Couldn’t reach another screen after picking up the guitar and reading the placard

Looks fun. Text is pretty tiny on mobile (iOS), though.

I would love to hear more feedback if anyone managed to actually complete the game! I had a much bigger idea in mind but I felt like I had to water it down so that people would actually understand how to play it. I originally wanted to make it so that you just had to listen to the instruments and figure out by yourself if they were playing the same song or not. To me, I thought part of the wonder would be picking up each instrument one at a time, hearing them individually at first, then adding them together one-by-one to experience the full song. For this reason, I made quite a different lines of music for each instrument (none of that "same melody, different instrument but one octave down", they are truly distinct). I thought it'd be surprising but satisfying to hear how seemingly disparate lines can be stacked on top of each other and actually fit.

But... my experience with making games is you can never over explain to your player, and so I reduced it down to what feels to me like a bunch of glorified fetch quests, basically telling the player directly which instruments go with what. I felt a bit dissatisfied taking away what I thought was the "spirit" (haha) of the game so to speak but I thought it was necessary so people would understand how to play the game. I especially couldn't experiment too much given this was a 6-day gamejam game.

But if this idea seems intriguing to you, I could keep working on a bigger version.