Disco Diviner

This game is really fun and has so much visual polish! I would miss a lot of spells that I thought were on beat. I'm not sure if this had something to do with the timing system or if it's just evidence of my lack of skill, lol! I was going to mention some of the bugs, but it seems you're already well aware. I think one improvement would be to make it more obvious what defines the end of the round. I wasn't sure if it was just time or if it included enemy kills. I would be very curious to hear how you did the timing system. Is it just an alarm mathematically synced to the bpm of the music or does it actually read the audio file in some clever way? All in all, great entry.

I couldn't even buy another spell in 3 runs 😭
First run I bought hearts, second one I wasted 15 on the power up (it increases damage but enemies still take 2 shots to die 😤) and last one... I died on wave 4 with 19 candies.

It's a good idea but yeah there's a lot of balance issues. Biggest thing is it needs a beat indicator because once you're lost it's very hard to get back. Casting spells is also pretty hard, there's no indication that you missed a beat, so it feels like the game skips inputs. And the fact that pressing and releasing spacebar has to be on beat too is sooo frustrating :'D If you miss the beat when you press it, it just does nothing for your next moves, and if you miss the release it wastes your hard earned spell :( If spacebar has to be on beat, a toggle will probably work better?

On the rogue side, it also lacks an indicator for the end of the round. Sometimes I'd wait to kill a few enemies before getting candies, and it would end the song suddenly before I could pick up any.
Some of the multiple movement enemies are a little weird too. Like, you can try escaping, but they can also catch you between "turns". I also have to mention the skeletons who can snipe you at the end of their move without any tell 😖

And overall, I'd say the level is way too big. It makes moving around less fun, and you can mostly just shoot things from far away. Having a smaller area would also make the bigger enemies more dangerous without necessarily having them move 5 times at once. Alternatively, for this size and number of enemies, the base spell needs to be stronger, or have an AoE or piercing, or the first bonus spell shouldn't cost 20 :(
As it is, almost all enemies take at least 2 shots, which is 10 turns if you're aligned and don't miss anything. When taking into account the spawn rate, the overall time limit, and the fact that you also need to go pick up the drops, it makes it very hard to get a good number of candies. I'm pretty sure 15 was my best in round 2, and when I started missing beats I couldn't even get to 10.

I loved watching all the little guys dancing around and nailing the timing on a set of moves was super satisfying! I'm always excited to try your entries and you delivered, once again!

You never fail to surprise me do you. Pretty cool game, really like the way you made the combat and shop system (the combat is pretty similar to my game too!), though I feel like the music and the song are off beat sometimes. Either that or the window for pressing keys is too strict and very easy to mess up. You're lucky I'm into rhythm games

Aww yeah, bring on the funk! I love rhythm games and Disco Diviner is pretty sick, especially for being done in 48 hours. Love the music and the enemy variety, the presentation is spot on.

I feel kicking off with a slower song and maybe having the option for a tiny bit more leeway with when the beat hits would help people get into this.

Overall a very enjoyable entry!

That was awesome! Very unforgiving, but also fun. Loved the music, the graphics vere nice, and the sheer amount of stuff going on makes me almost forget that this is a jam game. Good work!

Great submission! Right from the opening screen I knew I was in for a treat. I loved the full screen option and room transitions. I was absolutely TERRIBLE at the rhythm portion of the game - oh my... casting that first spell during the tutorial was a challenge! Really fun game once I sort of got the hang of it and I can really appreciate the skill that went into making this. I wouldn't know how to begin to implement the code required to make something like this at this point in my journey. Congrats and thanks for making this game!

Nice entry. I appreciate the creativity.

It is a difficult game and I could not keep in sync when more complex enemies came up. Maybe adding UI visualisation of the upcoming beat sequence would be helpful.

I will play this tommorow and see if I can achieve better results :D

Thanks for submission.

Unique concept with special gameplay. To be honest it was difficult for me but once I got familiar with the movements it become more funny. :) But I do not always understand why I cannot move in time (maybe a previous missed steps?). The game seems to be ready for release considering the well polished status, maybe a learning curve can be balanced for rookie players. :) Main screen fits to the game, nice room transitions and challenging task, congrats!

Ps.: Actually I am just wondering how you aligned the rythm of the music with the checking cycle of the player... :)

Expectedly-highly-polished Crypt of the Necrodancer-esque game here! Enough so that I was absolutely awful at it, I was barely hitting any spells and sometimes not even moving very fast - I don't think through any fault of the game, all just me! 😔

Lovely entry nonetheless. Looked great, sounded great, premise was excellent!

I played though your game on stream : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1628068563?t=01h48m56s

yeah the lack of bug-fixes/testing really did hurt this game. it still a fun idea and a nice atemp!

Incredibly fun and creative concept - though good lord do I suck at these types of games, haha. It took me faaar too long to get used to the way you cast spells, especially to the timing of the rhythm. Skill issues aside, great game!

Really fun submission! Getting used to the rhythm of the songs took a bit of time but once I got the hang of it it was really fun to vibe to. Spells are creative and fun to use and the enemies are appropriately menacing. The amount of levels is also nice and provides a pretty large base of content. I found that the second song was slightly hard to match movement too but maybe that could be countered by having a visual beat show up for like 5 seconds at the start of each level so you can see what the rhythm to follow actually is?

Another really polished and fun submittion and the menu, transitions, and typography were spot on!

Another GM48 classic from Tydecon! Great art and music, I think the game itself was a bit confusing but I slowly got the hang of it. Enjoyed bopping to the beat and getting rid of the baddies.